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International Business News
India's inflation inches closer to 8pc
Pallad Bhattacharya, New Delhi
India’s inflation rate inched closer to eight percent mark on Friday further reducing the comfort level of the Congress-led coalition government that is facing fresh general elections in less than a year.
The wholesale price index-based inflation stood at 7.83 percent for the week ending on May 3, the highest since November 2004, said official figures released here on Friday.
Spiralling prices coupled with a slowdown in industrial production have added to the worry of the government, which finds the two developments politically suicidal.
It has once again triggered economic growth versus inflation debate. Despite a series of fiscal and monetary measures including cuts in customs duty, ban on export of rice, suspension of futures trading in eight commodities since tire beginning of 2007 and tightening of cash flow, inflation has been showing no sign of coming down.
Rice prices softening in Philippines
AFP, Manila
The Philippines, one of the world's largest rice importers, said Friday prices are softening after Japan offered to sell rice to Manila amid news of bumper world harvests for 2008.
Large tenders by tire Philippines to fill its expected 2008 production gap of up to 2.7 million tonnes have helped drive up prices by 76 percent between December 2007 and April 2008, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
However, the government's grain procurement arm, the National Food Authority (NFA), has seen prices in the international market ease. NFA spokesman Tom Escarez told AFP.
"Prices spike every time we have a large tender. The market became quiet after the tender for 675,000 tonnes failed and the market realised we were not in a hurry," he added.
US homebuilding jumps more than expected
AFP, Washington
US homebuilding showed a surprisingly strong jump in April, signaling a ray of hope amid the rubble of tire worst housing slump in decades, according to government data released Friday.
Housing starts and permits hit their highest levels since February, and new home construction rebounded from a 17-year low in March, the Commerce Department data showed.
Starts rose 8.2 percent in April from March to an annual rate of 1.032 million units. It was the strongest gain since January 2006 and sharply higher than analysts' consensus forecast for a cutback to 940,000 units.
Global growth slows in 2008: UN
AFP, United Nations
The United Nations on Thursday issued a downward revision of its forecast for 2008 global economic growth, to just 1.8 percent, from the 3.4 percent predicted in January.
In an update of its January 9 "World and economic situation and prospect 2008", the world body said the worldwide economy would be slowing in 2008 after marking 3.8 percent growth last year.
Developing countries were expected to grow at a rate around five percent, down from 7.3 percent in 2007, and should lose more ground next year to 4.8 percent, the report said.
"If monetary and fiscal stimuli recently instituted in the US take hold, the world is likely to experience only a moderate slowdown, to 2008 growth of 2.8 percent," it said.