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Car sales fell across Europe in 2008 dipping 1It is now up to Hanwha's decision and determinationSXAP was the leading sectoralgainer up 0Identify growth segments and opportunities in the industryThis is truly some of themost remarkable growth weve ever seenWallace could see similar success again this weekChevrolet who had smoke coming out of his truck14 Iowa 92Lost a thriller to Ohio State 2724 And USC has certainly fallen with a thudnN0854937 Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd HPCLCapita Group (CPI.L) lost 4 percent as UBS cut theoutsourcer's rating to "sell" from "buy", while the broker alsomade the same change on support services group Serco SRP, down2.6 percent U.S. blue chips finished weaker but off their worst levelson Thursday with sentiment boosted slightly by news that U.S.bank Citigroup (C.N) agreed to support legislation aimed atstemming home loan foreclosures. A top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday the U.S.recession looks to be longer and more severe than originallythought, but there are signs that the economy will improve inthe second half of 2009. "We are seeing businesses retrenching and unemploymentrising," Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengrentold the Massachusetts Mortgage Bankers Association's AnnualMeeting. Ahead of the payrolls data, investors will keep an eye on UKmanufacturing and industrial output data for November andproducer price data for December at 0930 GMT.(Additional reporting by Phakamisa Ndzamela; Editing by JonLoades-Carter) Stocks. LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Suncorp-Metway (SUN.AX),Australia's second-biggest car and home insurer, has setguidance on a planned five-year sterling-denominated bond atmid-swaps plus 100 to 110 basis points, IFR reported on Friday. Suncorp-Metway has named Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and RBC tomanage the sale, which will be at least 300 million pounds ($457million), said IFR Markets, a Thomson Reuters online news andmarket analysis service. 
Suncorp-Metway is rated Aa3 by Moody's Investors Service, Aby Standard & Poor's and A by Fitch Ratings (Reporting by Jonathan Cable). TOKYO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Japanese real estate investment firmCreed Corp 8888.T said on Friday it has filed for courtprotection from creditors with 65 billion yen ($713 million) indebts, hurt by a sharp downturn in the property market ($191.23 Yen) (Reporting by Taiga Uranaka). It is my personal opinion, obviously, that The Gators are struggling because they are spending a lot of time trying to live up to the ranking "bestowed" upon them by the BCS, AP, USA Today, etc. Instead of focusing on a target in front of them, they're looking over their shoulders to see if anyone is getting close to the targets on their backs.After this weekend's performance by The Gators against SC compared to how 'Bama crushed Miss St, Texas crushed Baylor and TCU hammered Utah, The Gators should fall to 3; with 'Bama at 1, Texas at 2.If that happens, I think you will see a little more out of The Gators in their last two non-conference games and, hopefully, against 'Bama.
LONDON(Business Wire)Fixed-line telecoms services are facing a bleak 2009 and beyond, according to anew report Western European fixed telecoms: market sizings and forecasts2008-2014 published by Analysys Mason, the premier telecoms adviser(). "Rapidly saturating broadband means we are entering a new phase for fixedtelecoms," argues lead author and principal analyst Rupert Wood. "The structuralproblems it faces are only exacerbated by the current economic downturn." The Analysys Mason report indicates that all three of the main retail lines ofbusiness of fixed telcos face problems. Broadband service revenue is slowing to low single-digit growth, and at the sametime as the sector faces the need to invest to differentiate itself from anincreasingly mobile Internet, funding will be harder to justify.
New servicesmay stabilise the average revenue per line, but this is unlikely to grow. Legacy voice has been in trouble for years, but the effect of an economicdownturn will be to make revenue decline even faster relative to mobile.Unemployment and income squeeze will accelerate households decisions to give upfixed voice services for good. Enterprise telecoms revenues will decline as the economic downturn continues,although the report anticipates that, unlike in the main consumer areas, thiswill pick up again with an economic upturn. The report forecasts a CAGR of -5.8 for the retail fixed/broadband sector as awhole between 2008 and 2014, compared with -3.3 for 2007-2008. In thetraditional voice sector the report forecasts that retail revenue will declineby more than 50 over the period "There arent many bright spots," says Wood. "But having said that,paradoxically, more wireless services mean some very good network and wholesaleservice opportunities for fixed operators. Ultimately, though, fixed operatorsneed to adapt to their gradually changing role in the converged telecomsvalue-chain, and focus their growth plans on monetising those non-substitutableareas of their assets: core and metro networks, IT and managed serviceprovision.
