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India gets new central bank chief as inflation soars
AFP, New Drlhi
India has appointed a new central bank chief to replace Yaga Venugopai Reddy, who retires later this week with Asia's third largest economy battling high inflation.
Finance Secretary Duwuri Subbarao will succeed Reddy as governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a government announcement late Monday said.
The new RBI chief, who currently holds the top civil service job in the finance ministry, will have to wrestle down inflation running at a 13 -year peak of 12.40 percent.
Subbarao would assume office on September 5, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
The appointment ofthe one-time senior World Bank economist will be for three years but the term can be extended to five.
Reddy steered India’s aggressive monetary tightening cycle, which began in late 2004 to tame inflation. But prices have nearly tripled in the past year, stoked by soaring oil and other commodity prices.
Analysts said they expected Subbarao to pursue the same hawkish policy against inflation as Reddy.
Thailand moves to support baht
AFP» Bangkok
Thailand's central bank said Tuesday it had intervened in the foreign exchange market to support the baht after the government declared emergency rule in the capital.
The Bank of Thailand said the domestic currency had slipped during morning trading after Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej invoked the emergency decree at 7:00 am (0000 GMT).
"The announcement has caused the baht to weaken and be volatile, so we had to step in and support the baht this morning,” said deputy governor AtchanaWaiquamdee.
She said the economy would doubtless be affected by the ongoing political turmoil in the capital but could not predict to what extent until the situation had unfolded further.
At around 1:00 pm (0600 GMT), the dollar was trading at 34.47 baht, compared with 34.32 at Monday’s close.
"The scenario looks really bad and the baht would weaken further, with a resistance expected at 34.55," a dealer told Dow Jones Newswires. Philippine corporate profits fall
AFP, Manila
Soaring inflation contributed to a 4.3-percent fall in profits at listed Philippine firms over the three months to March, a stock exchange study said Tuesday.
The fall against the same quarter last year pushed profits among the 221 companies down to 66.68 billion pesos (1.46 billion dollars), according to the research by the Philippine Stock Exchange.
Inflation, slowing economic growth and the impact of stock market losses -- shares dropped 17.6 percent over the quarter — accounted for the fall, said bourse president Francis Um.
He said the figures created "an unsettling implication" that he described as "like the proverbial calm before the storm."
Firms in the finance, mining, oil and property sectors, together with holding companies, suffered double-digit percentage drops in profits, but overall revenues rose 10.4 percent to 589.71 billion pesos, the study said.
OECD ups US growth forecast; slashes for Japan, eurozone
AFP, Paris
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday increased its forecast for growth in the US economy this year but slashed its predictions for Japan and the eurozone.
The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said growth in the US economy would be 1.8 percent this year compared to 2007, a sharp upwards revision from a prediction in June of 1.2 percent.
Growth in the Japanese economy would be 1.2 percent instead of 1.7 percent and the eurozone would expand by 1.3 percent instead of 1.7 percent, the organisation said in an interim assessment of leading OECD countries.
The combined economy of Group of Seven nations, the world's leading industrialised democracies, was forecast to grow by 1 4 percent, unchanged from the last analysis by the OECD in June.