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Bank of Japan chief eyes action on strong yen
AFP, Tokyo
Japan's central bank chief warned Sunday that the soaring yen was hurting Asia’s largest economy and said he was looking at measures to cope with it.
The yen recently hit a 13-year high against the dollar after the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates to virtually zero. A strong yen makes Japanese exports less competitive and cuts into repatriated earnings.
"Amid the rapid downturn of the global economy, a strong yen has a negative impact on the (Japanese) economy," Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa told public broadcaster NHK.
"The impact is big. So we, the central bank, would like to keep thinking of ways to cope with it, including through monetary policy," he said.
Shirakawa said the central bank will keep studying how it can lower private banks' lending rates and make it easier for companies to procure the money they need for investment.
But the bank has little room left to cut benchmark interest rates. On December 19, it slashed its key rate to 0.1 percent to cope with the worsening global slowdown.
The government has repeatedly hinted it could order the bank to intervene on the market to bring down the yen. Japan has not intervened on the foreign exchange market for nearly five years.
EU countries see gas supplies cut by Ukraine-Russia row
AFP, Bucharest
A handful of eastern European countries reported cuts in Russian gas supplies of up to 30 percent Saturday since the start of the dispute over payment between Russia and Ukraine.
Normally Romania imports about 10 million cubic metres a day but on Friday supplies amounted to only seven million cubic metres, according to Ioan Rus, director of the gas pipeline operator Transgaz.
"Romania has adequate stocks to meet this drop and customers are being supplied in the normal way," he told Romanian television.
Russia halted delivery of natural gas to Ukraine on New Year's Day after negotiators from the two sides failed to reach agreement on a payment dispute and a new contract, and gas shortages were reported in several EU states.
"On Friday at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT), (Russian gas giant) Gazprom's dispatching station for the Balkans, based in Sofia, told us supplies will drop 30 percent," Rus told AFP.
Supplies Saturday continued to be 30 percent below their normal amount. Economy Minister Adriean Videanu called a meeting of officials working in the gas industry to discuss the fall in supplies.
Richest German families lose billions in crisis
AFP, Berlin
Germany's 20 wealthiest families have lost about 40 billion euros (55 billion dollars) in the economic crisis in share values alone, the financial magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported Saturday.
The richest families have lost "30 percent on average" of their fortunes since the summer of 2007, leading asset manager Joachim Paul Schaefer, told the magazine.
"It is clear now that the present crisis has inflicted much deeper wounds on big family fortunes than the last four or five recessions combined," he said.
"Some fortunes which have grown over the generations are as threatened as much as they were in the hyperinflation of the 1920s or during the (1930s) depression."
The value of the shares held by the Quandt industrial dynasty, which owns half the capital of carmaker BMW, has halved in a year, according to WirtschaftsWoche.
The magazine Manager-Magazin claimed in October that 122 German individuals or families were worth at least a billion euros (1.38 billion dollars).
Cadillac unveils sleeker
SRX before Detroit show
AP, Detroit
General Motors Corp is counting on the 2010 Cadillac SRX crossover vehicle to lure luxury car buyers with new design and performance features.
The redesigned vehicle was unveiled Sunday and is set to go on display at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit later this month. It replaces the SRX model first launched in 2004.
To help compete with better-selling rivals like die Lexus RX, Acura MDX, and the BMWX3 and X5, the SRX's designers took elements from other Cadillac models and melded them into this one. The new SRX looks faster than its boxy predecessor, with a curving roofline and a more rounded nose that still retains an aggressive look.
Cadillac put more energy into improving the interior quality and exterior design of the car, Dean said. A 3-liter direct-injection V-6 engine comes standard, with the option for a 2.8-liter turbocharged V-6. Although fuel economy testing wasn't complete, GM estimates highway miles per gallon will fall in the mid-20s.