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High-spending Swedes slightly deterred by crisis
Al l’, Stockholm
Swedes are still expected to spend more than last year at the Christmas period despite the global financial crisis, though the increase will be less than usual, a traders' group said Saturday.
"We expect that all sales lor Christmas this December will attain 61 billion kronor" (5.66 billion euros), Margareta Ternell of the Swedish Retail Institute (HUI) said.
"It's an increase of 2.5 per cent compared to last year, including inflation."
However she noted that the last decade had seen an annual increase in seasonal spending of between five and six percent.
"This year we just see an increase of two-and-a-half percent because of the economic crisis," she said. "We don't think people will spend as much money as they did the last lOyears."
Ternell also said that shoppers were busier in Stockholm and the southern city of Malmoe, while at Gothenburg, the headquarters of the vulnerable automobile industry, people seemed to be tightening their belts.
Some retailers had also launched their traditional post-Christmas sales early this year for fear of being left with unsold stock.
Investor fear drives US
Treasury yields to near zero
AFP, Washington
The panic in global financial markets has sparked an unprecedented rush into safe US Treasury securities, driving yields on short-term government notes down to almost zero.
Due to stampeding demand for safe short-term investments, the USTreasury's four-weekand three-month bills on Friday yielded an effective rate of 0.01 percent - - down sharply from 1.515 percent and 1.785 percent, respectively, in early September.
Other Treasuries are also showing record low yields. The 10-year bond yield fell as low as 2.505 percent and the 30-year bond yield slid to 3.005 percent at one point on Friday. The six-month bond yielded a mere 0.20 percent.
The low yields reflect a surge in demand for these instruments, seen as the safest in the world during times of turmoil.
"Investors seem to be content to sell stocks and park into the bonds for now," said Greg Michalowski of the financial website FXDD.
Analysts say the fear factor has pushed up demand for Treasuries, since investors are virtually certain the US government will not default.
SKorea's Hynix announces new cost-saving steps
AFP, Seoul
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Sunday unveiled new cost-cutting steps such as early retirement, unpaid leave and lower pay aimed at saving 100 billion won (68 million dollars) as the globed downturn bites.
The move came after the world's second largest memory chipmaker asked for about 500 billion won (339 million dollars) in financial assistance from creditor banks.
Hynix said it would retire about 30 senior officials and cut remaining managers' pay by up to 20 percent.
Its union has also agreed on an early retirement programme targeting those who have worked for more than 10 years, and on two-week unpaid leave between January and April.
"We hope to save about 100 billion won through our new steps," a spokeswoman told AFP, adding the move would affect 18,000 workers in South Korea.
Knowledge Economy Minister Lee Youn-Ho has said that the government would not consider active state support for Hynix because this would breach World Trade Organisation guidelines.
Hynix is suffering from falling demand and chip prices amid a global economic downturn.
Argentina unveils $9b to fuel demand for cars, stem job loss AFP, Buenos Aires
Argentina announced Saturday it would make nine billion dollars available to finance car purchases in an attempt to slow job losses in one of the industries hardest hit by the global credit crunch.
Under the plan, first-time car buyers can get their vehicle financed, and demand could be boosted by some 100,000 units a year, Manufacturing Minister Debora Giorgi said at Government House.
"We are aiming to reorient where funds are going so that they stop being used for financial speculation and start helping bolster the economy and maintain jobs" in a vital industry for the local economy, she said.
There are some rules: the plan covers 12 lower-priced vehicles, two at each of the main automakers in the country. And the car's value cannot top 31.000 pesos (9,100 dollars). It can be financed up to 60 months.