However, losses slowed considerably in the second half in both the wholesale and consumer divisions.

Yet this does not detract from the fact that Mandarin has been the dominant dialect of Chinese for many hundreds of years.

Rising costs were eating up most of the profits.

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Nor were there correlations between the share price and the shift in reported value of investment instruments, goodwill and the impairment of assets - all typically critical to an investor' s analysis.