Dixons Carphone slumps to £440-million first-half loss
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Dixons Carphone , the electricals and mobile phone retailer, slumped to a statutory first-half pretax loss of 440 million pounds after booking 490 million pounds of exceptional charges, mainly related to goodwill.The outcome for the 26 weeks ended to Oct. 27 compared to a profit of 54 million pounds in the same period last year.The group, which issued a huge profit warning in May, said it made a headline pretax profit of 50 million pounds - ahead of analysts' average..