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Nippon Mining slashes profit f'cast on oil slide
Reuters - Saturday, November 1
By Risa Maeda
TOKYO, Oct 31 - Japan's Nippon Mining Holdings <5016.T> on Friday cut its full-year profit forecast by 75 percent as weaker oil prices eat into the value of its inventory, offsetting improvements in refinery margins.
The downward revision was the latest gloomy news on earnings from a resource company. Japan's top refiner, Nippon Oil Corp <5001.T>, earlier this week issued a loss warning for the year to next March, also blaming a fall in oil prices. [ID:nT187654]
Nippon Mining Holdings, three-quarters of whose revenue is from oil refiner Japan Energy, now expects to post group net profit of 18 billion yen in the year to next March, down from 72 billion yen in its previous forecast.
The holding firm's 2007/08 profit totalled 99.3 billion yen.
Most of the remaining revenue is from its metals units, including Nippon Mining and Metals.
Nippon Mining Holdings also said it would cut this year's capital investment plan by 20 billion yen to 135.5 billion yen due to growing uncertainty in business conditions.
" is tough under the current financial conditions. It is tough in regard of the earnings, as well," Nippon Mining CFO Kiyonobu Sugiuchi said at a news conference. He declined to give further details on the downgrade in planned spending.
The holding firm's group net profit for the six months to September fell 10 percent to 45.8 billion yen from a year earlier.
The company now expects the spot Dubai crude oil price to fall to $65 a barrel on average in the second half, which will have a major negative impact on its full-year earnings, Sugiuchi said.
In April, its estimate on the oil price for the whole year was $93 a barrel, but it is now $90.1.
The company also revised down its estimate on copper prices on the London Metal Exchange. It now estimates $2 per lb on average in the second half and $2.83 for the whole year.
Similarly, Nippon Oil this week revised down its estimate of the spot Dubai crude oil price to around $80 a barrel in the coming months, compared with around $110 it said in July, when the refiner last revised its full-year earnings forecast.
Its estimate on the oil price for the year to March 2009 is now $97.8 on average, instead of $111.8 estimated in July, a Nippon Oil spokesman said on Friday.
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