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US seeks $300b from
Gulf states
Al P, Kuwait City
The United States has asked four oil rich Gull states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb die global financial meltdown, Kuwait’s daily Al-Seyassah reported Thursday.
Quoting "highly informed sources, the daily said Washington has asked Saudi Arabia for 120 billion dollars, the United Arab Emirates for 70 billion dollars, Qatar for 60 billion dollars and was seeking 40 billion dollars from Kuwait.
Al-Seyassah said Washington sought the amount as financial aid” to face the fallout of the financial crisis and help prevent its economy from sliding into a painful recession.
The daily said the United States plans to use the funds to help the ailing automobile industry, banks and other companies suffering from die global financial turmoil.
The four nations, all members of OPEC, produce together 14 million barrels of oil per day, around half of the cartel's production and about 17 percent of world supplies.
The four states are estimated to have amassed close to 1.5 trillion dollars in surplus in the past six years due to high oil prices that rocketed above 147 dollars in July before sliding to just above 50 dollars.
GM launches 'product offensive1 in China
AFP,Shanghai
US automaker General Motors has begun unveiling an unprecedented number of new models in China, where it has gone on the offensive as it faces bankruptcy at home.
GM and its local partners are trying to keep an edge in China, die world's second largest market after the United States, as they exhibit 24 models at this week's Guangzhou International Auto Show.
" The vehicles on display are part of a product offensive that will see us roll out an unprecedented number of new and upgraded models over the coming two years," GM's China chief Kevin Wale said in a statement.
GM’s new offerings for die Chinese market include the Buick Enclave SUV, Chevrolet Cruze sedan and Cadillac CTS-V.
Although growth is slowing in China, the market is crucial for GM, which sold more than 60 percent of its cars outside the US in the third quarter.
Between July and September, GM's worldwide sales fell 11.4 percent to 2.12 million vehicles.
More than a tenth of those were sold in China where sales grew 12 percent year-on-year to more than 240,350 units, according to company figures. In the first nine months the company said it sold 830,480 vehicles, up 10.2 percent from last year.
AFP
A Chinese hostess poses with a Ferrari at the Guangzhou international Auto Show in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province yesterday. China is expected to overtake the US as the largest auto market by 2015 and growth potential is huge with only 20 people for every 1,000 owning a car, compared to 700 per 1,000 in the US.
Governments scramble to protect jobs as losses mount AFP, Paris
Governments scrambled to cushion the impact of the finance crisisThursday with France launching a sovereign wealth fund and China unveiling a jobs protection plan as the car industry made huge new cuts.
With global markets suffering more heavy losses, the grim news piled up with Japanese exports falling at the fastest pace in seven years and US consumer prices recording their steepest one-month decline in over 60 years.
Iceland, virtually bankrupted by the recent turmoil, was handed billions of dollars in loans by the IMF and its neighbours.
The impact of the crisis on the auto industry was highlighted when France's PSA Peugeot Citroen announced plans to slash 3,550 jobs and Japan's Isuzu Motors said it would cut 1,400 jobs and domestic production by 10 percent.
The Peugeot job losses could affect assembly-line workers, managers and office staff in all plants under the plan that provides for voluntary departures, a company said in a statement.
GE in talks with sovereign wealth funds
AFP, Frankfurt
US industrial group General Electric (GE) is in talks with foreign sovereign wealth funds on a possible equity holding and joint operations, a senior executive said Thursday in a press report.
Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco, head of GE International, was quoted by the Financial limes Deutschland as saying that the group was speaking with the Singapore funds Temasek and GIC and with CIC and Safe of China.
GE's goal is to establish stable shareholders, since a large amount of its shares trade freely on financial markets, the newspaper said, while noting that the US group already has a strong cooperation with a state-owned fund from Abu Dhabi.
"We are discussing with them how each could contribute to investments in partner countries, in infrastructure for example," Beccalli-Falco was quoted as saying.