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Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs, forecasts big loss
At P, Tokyo
Japan's Nissan Motor Co. said Monday it would cut 20,000 jobs worldwide and forecast a net loss of 265 billion yen (2.9 billion dollars) in this financial year to March due to the economic crisis.
Nissan posted a net loss of83 2 billion yen in the fiscal third quarter to December, blaming the global economic slowdown and the strong yen.
Chief executive Carlos Ghosn. who salvaged Nissan from near bankruptcy when he was parachuted in from Renault a decade ago. said the automaker s "worst assumptions on the state of the global economy have been met or exceeded "
"The global auto industry is in turmoil. Nissan is no exception." he said.
Nissan said it would shrink its global workforce in the next financial year to March 2010 from 235,000 to 215.000.
"In response to this crisis, which is not of our making, we have to reevaluate our global headcount." Ghosn said.
Nissan made an operating loss of 99.2 billion yen in the third quarter as revenue tumbled 34.4 percent to 1.82 trillion yen.
Nissan sold 731.000 vehicles worldwide in the third quarter, down 18.6 percent from a year earlier.
India forecasts growth
Of 7.1 pc for 2008-09
AFP, New Delhi
India s economic growth is expected to slow to 7.1 percent in the current fiscal year - the lowest rate for six years and down from nine percent in 2007-08, according to official estimates released Monday.
The estimate for the year ending March 31 was released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO).
It would be the slowest growth rate since 2003 and will place further pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government ahead of general elections expected inApril.
A number of economists have predicted that India's growth could fall below 7.0 percent this year as the global downturn takes its toll.
The CSO said growth in manufacturing output was expected to be around 4.1 percent, half the 2007-08 figure, while agricultural output would expand 2.6 percent, down from 4.9 percent.
Economists also believe India's fiscal position --already one of the world's worst -- will deteriorate further with the interim budget to be presented February 16 by the government.
French loan to bail out auto industry
AFP, Paris
France will lend six billion euros (7.7 billion dollars) to carmakers Renault and Peugeot-Citroen in exchange for a promise to halt job losses and rein in executive bonuses, reports said Monday.
President Nicolas Sarkozy was to meet car manufacturers at 4.30pm (1530 GMT) at the Elysee Palace to discuss how to protect their key sector, which employs one French worker in ten, from the global economic storm.
According the dailies Les Echos and Le Figaro, the president was to offer the firms three billion euros each if they agree to stop French plant closures and job cuts and limit shareholder dividends and bonuses.
Last month. Prime Minister Francois Fillon promised carmakers aid of five to six billion euros, and the amount could rise further if the state decides to help Renault Trucks, which is owned by AB Volvo of Sweden.
Sarkozy has made protecting France's iconic industries the central plank of his supply-led plan to ride out the global economic slowdown, but he will have to tread carefully to avoid triggering a row over protectionism.
Tighter financing delaying Saudi projects
AFP, Riyadh
Tighter bank financing is delaying Saudi government projects crucial to the growth of the economy, according to a Riyadh industry official.
Saudi banks have been slow in financing companies which the government contracted for projects already budgeted, Said Fahad al Hammadi, head of the contractors committee of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce, told AFP late Sunday.
"The banks are being strict in providing finance for projects, especially infrastructure projects," he said.
"This tighter financing began in the last few months against the backdrop of the global financial crisis."
Hammadi also said banks have pushed up interest rates for contractor financing to around 12 percent despite the sharp slide in rates in Saudi Arabia and around the world, and notwithstanding the fact that the projects are supported by guarantees from the Saudi Finance Ministry.