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Britain unveils second bank rescue package AFP, London
Britain unveiled a second bank rescue package worth tens ofbillions of pounds Monday aimed at kick-starting lending to homeowners and businesses and curbing an alarmingly deepening recession.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the measures, including an insurance scheme to protect banks from so-called toxic assets, were crucial to free up credit to get the economy moving again.
"Good businesses must have access to credit, jobs should not be lost needlessly." he said, presenting the package to reporters along with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.
"The government is clear that meeting lending demand to otherwise creditworthy businesses, homeowners and consumers is essential for supporting economic recovery." added a government statement.
Brown urged other countries to take similar steps, warning that tire world risked tumbling into a "damaging spiral" ofde-globalisation if they did not co-ordinate their responses to the economic downturn.
The British leader did not put a total price tag on the new measures, which came after a first package last October.
However, press reports suggested it was worth some 200 billion pounds (295 billion dollars, 220 billion euros) overall.
Eurozone economy to contract 1.9pc in 2009: EU
AFP, Brussels
The economy of the 16 nations using the euro will contract 1.9 percent this year as unemployment surges and government deficits explode in the midst of a severe recession, the European Commission forecast on Monday.
The forecast marked a dramatic downward revision from the commission's last estimate in November, when it predicted that eurozone economy would eke out growth ofO.l percent.
The estimate also reveals that the eurozone has rapidly plunged into a deep recession after growing an estimated 0.9 percent in 2008.
The commission said the eurozone would not see the beginning of a recovery before mid-2009 and that the eurozone economy would then manage to grow a meagre 0.5percentin2010.
It forecast that the 27-nation EU economy would fare only marginally better, contracting 1.8 percent this year before achieving growth next year of 0.5 percent.
At the same time, unemployment will climb to levels not seen in Europe for over decade as joblessness becomes once again a major headache for workers and politicians.
Russia, Ukraine inch towards EUgas supply renewal
AFP, Moscow
Russia and Ukraine were set to sign a deal on Monday to get natural gas flowing to Europe, as exasperated EU officials urged a quick resumption of supplies to a gas-deprived continent.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko were expected to attend a signing ceremony in Moscow between the two national gas companies at 1230 GMT, a government spokesman, Alexander Smirnov, told AFP.
The two prime ministers reached the broad outlines of an accord on Sunday after marathon talks but left the details to be worked out by Russia's Gazprom energy company and Ukrainian state company Naftogaz.
In a joint appearance with Tymoshenko on Sunday, Putin said gas flows to Europe would resume "shortly”.
Tymoshenko was expected to return to the Russian capital on Monday for the signing, after briefly returning to Kiev.
The European Union said the real test was whether gas would start flowingagain.
Citigroup says it’s committed to Japanese units
AFP, Tokyo
Citigroup said Monday it was "committed" to its Japanese brokerage and asset management businesses, following reports they are up for sale as the troubled US financial giant splits in two.
"With respect to our brokerage and asset management businesses in Japan... Citi remains committed to maximising the companies' value over the next few years," the group said in a statement.
Media reports said the group was looking to sell either one of, or both, Nikko Cordial Securities and Nikko Asset Management as it offloads non-core assets in an effort to return to profitability.
The Wall Street Journal reported citing unnamed sources that Citigroup decided to sell off Nikko Cordial after they agreed that the brokerage arm did not fit into the group's plans.
Citigroup said on Friday that it would split into two businesses as it reported an 8.29 billion dollar loss in the fourth quarter.