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HSBC cuts 450 jobs in HK

AFP, Hong Kong
Global banking giant HSBC said Monday it has cut 450 staff in Hong Kong in anticipation of a deteriorating global economy next year.
All the affected staff had been notified of the news by Monday night, a spokeswoman for the bank's 1 long Kong operations told AH?
Because of the uncertainties ahead and the deteriorating external economy, we have to be cautious of the operating environment next year," she said.
"Under the circumstances, we had to make a review."
The spokeswoman refused to give a breakdown on the job cuts and added that the bank would try to help affected staff through internal redeployment where possible.
But an internal memo sent to staff from the company's executive director Peter Wong on Monday described tire redundancies as "across all customer groups and some bank office functions," according to Dow Jones Newswires.
A spokesman for the Hong Kong Banking Employees Association said he was concerned that the layoffs would encourage other banks to follow suit, broadcaster TVB reported.
IMF wants $100b more
ATP, Paris
The International Monetary Fund needs 100 billion more dollars (79 billion euros) over the next six months to cope with increased demand, its chief said in an interview aired Monday.
"The number of countries having problems at the same time has dramatically increased and they come to the IMF asking for support. So we need more resources," the fund's head Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the BBC.
The question is to be able to face the problem in six months from now, and I think all the heads of state and government are aware of the need for a strong IMF," he said.
Countries should also do more to tackle the economic crisis, Strauss-Kahn said, notably by cutting interests rates and using government finances.
In some parts of the world - Japan, the United States -- interest rates have been cut very much, but it can be done more aggressively in other parts," he said, suggesting the European Central Bank, in particular, should consider such a cut.
Although the ECB lowered its interest rates earlier this month to 3.25 percent, critics fault it for being slow to cut its rates.
Eurozone trade deficit narrows
AFP, Brussels
The 15-nation eurozone saw its trade gap with the rest of the world narrow in September, but the performance pales when compared to the surplus registered in the same month last year, official figures showed Monday.
The first estimate figure showed a deficit of 5.6 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars), much better than the revised 9.4 billion deficit recorded in August and but falling short of analysts' predictions of a 5.0-billion-euro shortfall according to Dow Jones newswires.
In September 2007, before the global financial and economic crises, the 15 nations sharing the euro currency enjoyed an exterior trade surplus of 2.9 billion euros.
Eurozone exports rose by 2.2 percent in September to reach 137.1 billion euros while imports also rose, by 2.1 percent to 142.7 billion euros.
For the 27-nation European Union as a whole the deficit in September, according to the first estimate, stood at 23.0 billion euros, smaller than the August figure of 27.5 billion.
KfW posts loss of 1.8b euros
Al P, Berlin
The German state-owned development bank KfW has recorded a loss of 1.8 billion euros (2.26 billion dollars) for the first nine months of the year, a statement said on Monday.
KfW was stuck by the international financial crisis, which forced it to aid stricken business lender IKB, in which KfW owned a majority stake it sold in August to US private equity group Lone Star for 150 million euros.
The IKB bail-out cost KfW 1.1 billion euros, while devaluations of its asset portfolio cost another 1.6 billion, the statement said.
IKB, which was also exposed to losses in connection with the crisis in Iceland, made a serious blunder in mid-September, paying US investment bank Lehman Brothers 319 million euros the same day it declared bankruptcy.