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In the U.S. Commerce Department issues Business Inventories for July at 1230 GMT. Economists expect a median fall of 0.2 percent, versus a rise of 0.1 percent in June. Production figures from the world's largest economy are due out at 1315 GMT and are expected to show a rise of 0.2 percent, versus a gain of 0.5 percent in July.

Sweden has decisively rejected the European Union's single currency

Astra Zeneca launch's its top new drug hope Crestor in the crucial U.S. market on Monday, London's Times newspaper said, without citing sources.BP Shell Oil prices hit their lowest level in four months on Friday as a powerful hurricane in the Atlantic looked likely to pass to the north of U.S. Gulf oil and gas installations.Telewest agreement on restructuring is likely to be posted to creditors over the next two months, a source close to the talks said on Friday.

Aegis Group media advertising said it had agreed to buy Belgian research business Censydiam Group for up to 8.75 million euros

Whitbread possibly wants to buy Premier Lodge

The average house price rose by nearly 15 percent in the year through July with the average price of a property in July was 156,273 pounds, up 14.6 percent from a year earlier. The new monthly index, which is being compiled on an experimental basis by the office of the deputy prime minister, is based on the price of 25,000 properties sold each month.

United Kingdom F)inals (I)nterim	United States (Click Flag) All  Times GMT	Europe & World All  Times GMT
Mon 15th Sep Reporting Company Updates Financial Data Enterprise (I), Ulster Television (I), Vanco (I), Wilmington Group (F)	13.30 2nd Quarter Current Account -$138bn exp. 13.30 Sep Empire State Manufacturing Survey 15.0 exp. 13.30 July Business Inventories 0.1% exp. 14.15 Aug Industrial Production 0.3% exp. 14.15 Aug Capacity Utilisation 74.6% exp.	Europe: Thales (I), JC Decaux (I)
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Amid accusations of phone cloning and the use of car-tracking bugs in the Collins Stewart affair, the Square Mile is suddenly paranoid. Telegraph

BAT is lining up a 2bn bid for the cigarette arm of Turkish state group Tekel. Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco are also in the running. CBI, the employers' body, is proposing the phasing of payments to sacked directors in an attempt to head of Government legislation over 'rewards for failure'.

Telewest is planning to list in New York in a move allowing it to merge with rival cable operator NTL, which already has a US quote.

The FSA is to unleash a major crackdown on insider trading, with 12 insider-dealing and other market abuse cases due before the courts in the next three months

Sainsbury adds homeware to challenge John Lewis Allied Irish Bank Bank of America savages AIB's Rusnak claim Moran sets his price for IWP International buyout at 5.9m Royal and Sun Alliance to sell off estate agents BAE dodges flak to home in on a new Saudi deal Whitbread wants budget hotel rival Minmet's 4.4m global rights deal BAE lines up Saudi plane deal Allied Irish Bank issues 1bn bond to grow mortgage lending Woolworths courts buyers for Big W chain Logica Cheap text deals hide rise in prices

Directors' Deals: Pizza chain brothers cook up a sale Judgment Day: Should you be buying shares in Isoft? Ask Central Directors' Deals: Pizza chain brothers cook up a sale

Irish business digest , Independent News and Media Wrigley puts mint into its Cadbury challenge London Stock Exchange FSA targets insider dealing 'dirty dozen' Permira likely to launch counter-bid for Debenhams Bank of Ireland: McCreevy in secret 500m spending plan Kingspan Group Irish business digest

Slush fund claims haunt BAE

Kingfisher profits wiped out by Kesa demerger bills No cause to be up in arms over BAE's baksheesh Manchester United Peter Kenyon to net 2m a year at Chelsea Brascan threatens Canary Wharf veto GlaxoSmithKline Hogg's mission impossible: winning plaudits for Garnier's pay

Trafficmaster The market is thinking long-term at last Premier Oil The market is thinking long-term at last Wembley's date with Providence

Run-down Boots needs a hefty dose of change from Baker

BAE's 'mini' Al Yamamah at risk from sleaze claims

Kingfisher, will say this week that its post-tax profits for the first half of the year have been virtually wiped out by the cost of the Kesa demerger

Wembley's plans to expand its gaming operations in the US have been dealt a severe blow by last week's indictment on bribery charges of two directors,

Telewest moves to US in debt deal Next's sales did not dry up in heat Dixons Clare and present danger BSkyB Sky-high task to put the 'new' into News 24 Carlton Fears grow over ITV asset-stripping

Kingston Communications Called to Hull and back Cheapside Vodafone Business Comment BAE Systems

Morrison's record profits to boost Safeway bid BAT reheats $4bn bid to buy Camel and Winston

Banks 'baling out on MyTravel'

Man U bracing for takeover

Debenhams chief facing fresh battle

Tesco facing a complete freeze of its assets in the Czech Republic

Bidders queuing up for Boosey

EMI is poised to make an offer of 600m for Warner Music

Collins Stewart stockbroker buys energy brokers Starsupply for 5m.

Minmet pays 3.1m for the rights to a radical new way to extract go

MyTravel is on the brink of bankruptcy, despite having won backing from bondholders for a 1.3bn debt refinancing deal The deal is expected to be announced on Monday, but industry sources warn that the company's bank debt is being sold more cheaply than Marconi's was before the collapse of the telecoms firm in 2001.

KESA, created three months ago from the demerger of High Street giant Kingfisher, is set to reveal a sharp fall in underlying sales this week

Securicor's potential liability for big damages claims resulting from 9.11 increases

Vodaphone, Orange, mmO2 Mobile firms in fight for 4bn rebate Next Already bespoken for: a retail dead end

Business View: Brasher and Bolder. After the food feud, Tesco must deliver the goods

BAE condemned for targeting 'trouble spots' such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iran to sell arms

Allied Domecq will this week begin takeover talks with Australian wine producer Peter Lehmann Wines. Contracts worth 1.2bn are up for grabs to build an oil platform to tap the most significant North Sea oil finds for a decade.

10m price tag on British Energy HQ Superwoman' under fire for Aegon results HBOS Forth Ports linked to takeover bid Scottish Investment Trust close to replacing chairman Sun shines on Tesco and Wm Morrison

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