Fujitsu hit

Japan's largest computer maker, Fujitsu, is reported to be likely to set to revise its pre-tax profit down to Y5bn ( pounds 21m) for the first six months of the current fiscal year because of sluggish sales and appreciation of the yen.

The projected figure is half the original estimate of Y10bn and would mark an 85 per cent drop from the same period a year earlier, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday.