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Opec slashes demand forecasts as financial crisis hits
AfP, Uen/w
The global financial crisis will give a vicious twist to an economic slowdown hitting world demand for oil, Opec said Wednesday as it slashed consumption growth forecasts for this year and next.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it cut its estimate for growth in demand for oil this year and 2009 largely because of an "excessive" casing of demand in the United States.
For 2008, it cut its estimate for growth in demand by 330,000 barrels per day to 550,000 bpd, giving average total demand of about 86.5 million bpd.
For 2009, it cut its forecast by 100,000 bpd to 800,000 bpd to put average total demand at 87.2 million barrels per day.
"The slow US economy is seen as the main cause of die sharp slowdown in petroleum product demand diis year," Opec said.
Weak US oil demand would bear down on the oil market "at least in the first half of2009."
The organisation s monthly report, noted "bearish" oil price trends and signs of "recession" in the US, Europe and Japan, leaving little doubt that Opec is worried about the possible effect on demand for oil.
India, Brazil, SAfrica slam rich nations over credit crisis
AFP, New Delhi
Leaders from emerging economic powers India, South Africa and Brazil Wednesday slammed rich nations over what they said is a self-made financial crisis.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said many developing countries had become "victims of the global financial crisis generated by the rich countries."
He said it was unfair that poorer nations had" to pay for the irresponsibility of speculators who have transformed the world into a gigantic casino."
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is hosting Lula and South African President Kgalema Motlanthe for the third annual India-Brazil-South zXfrica (IBSA) conference.
Motlanthe was equally damning, saying the "ill-conceived decisions of a few have brought the international financial system to the brink of collapse."
He said both developed and developing nations needed to address "what really went wrong" and caused "an unmitigated disaster."
Tax in advanced countries is close to record high level: OECD
AFP, Paris
Denmark and Sweden have the highest overall tax rates among advanced countries and Mexico and Turkey the lowest, but the average tax take is running at close to record high levels, the OECD said on Wednesday on data for 2006.
Provisional data for 2007 showed that tax burdens rose in 11 of 26 countries, but fell in 13.
This signalled that the average would probably stay at recent high levels, having declined in 2001-2004, "temporarily reversing a rising trend witnessed since the 1970s," the data showed.
The Organisation for Economc Cooperation and Development also warned that the economic slowdown, aggravated by the financial crisis, would reduce tax revenues.
The overall amount of tax levied in the 30 OECD countries in 2006, the latest year for which data is available, was 35.9 percent of output, close to the record of 36.1 percent in 2000.
Denmark and Sweden came first, each with a ratio of 49.1 percent
Tata Steel says no danger to Corus pension fund
AFP, New Delhi
Tata Steel, the world's sixth-largest steelmaker, said Wednesday the employee pension fund of its British unit Corus was safe despite the global financial crisis.
The company was reacting to a report in India's Mint business daily that said Tata Steel would be forced to dig into its own coffers to pay pensions because of losses in equity and other financial markets.
"The UK pension funds of Corus are significantly derisked with around 70 percent of the portfolio in debt-related instruments," Tata Steel said in a statement.
It said the funds had a surplus of more than 500 million pounds (872 million dollars) as of June 30, and that "the surplus as on September 30 is estimated to be higher than end-June."
Tata Steel, part of the Tata Group conglomerate, acquired Anglo-Dutch steel producer Corus in April last year.