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9 Money 09.1 The French Government yesterday approved a Ff4.6bn urban development project east of Paris, co-ordinated by EuroDisney, and designed to create 22,000 jobs by 2015. Yule Catto, the chemicals group, launched a ￡240m bid for Holliday Chemical. Yule shares fell 32p (about 10%) to 274 in response to the news. Hollidays shares dropped 8p to end at 225p. The worldwide fall in stock markets last month encouraged Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to invest in media and technology companies. The Saudi prince spent $400m on a 5% stake in News Corporation, $300m on 1% in Motorola and $150m on 5% of Netscape Communications. A beach scene painted in 1870 by French impressionist Claude Monet when he was desperately short of money made ￡3.8m at Christies Auction House in London. Sales of the Financial Times hit an all-time record in November. Worldwide sales were 12.4% up on November, last year. New car registrations in Western Europe in November rose 10.4% to 991,800 from 898,400 a year ago, said the European Auto Manufacturers Association. 0 9.2 (P = Peter, J = John, K = Kate) P Im glad you managed to make it today. Id like to start by taking a look at the years sales and profit figures. First of all John, could you summarise the sales figures? ) Well, we had a good January - 5.2 million. Januarys a difficult month because sales always drop after Christmas. In February we launched the new childrens line and it went very well. Total sales rose to almost 8 million, which was nice. Unfortunately they then plummeted after the fire in the main factory. But by the end of April we had recovered - 10.2 million was the figure - and since then sales have gone up steadily month by month. The December figures arent in yet, but it looks like we will probably reach 15 million this month. P Good. Ive got a couple of questions, but Ill save them for later. Kate, sales have increased, but has that meant higher profits? K Yes, it has. Were waiting for the final figures, but we already know th