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Britain takes majority stake in Lloyds Banking Group
At-P, London
I he British government said Saturday it will take a majority stake in IJoyds Banking Group (l.BG) and guarantee toxic assets, leaving only two major British banks outside the state's control.
I he state will increase its ownership of the group from 43 percent to 65 percent and underwrite 260 billion pounds (290 billion euros, 365 billion dollars) worth of its toxic assets.
Under the government s asset protection scheme terms, l.BG has to take the first loss "hit" of up to 25 billion pounds on its toxic assets before the government steps in.
As a key part of the deal, LBG has pledged to lend a further 28 billion pounds over the next two years, with the majority going to companies rather than individuals.
The deal was hammered out between bank and Treasury officials in recent days. It leaves leaves just Barclays and HSBC as the only major British high street banks not controlled by the state.
l.BG was created in January when Lloyds TSB bought rival lender HBOS, which faced collapse because it was struggling to raise funds due to the credit crunch.
"The first part of the loss, up to 25 billion pounds on the valuation of those assets, will be met by IJoyds. It will, in addition, pay a 16 billion pound fee for participating in the scheme," Treasury minister Stephen Timms told BBC television.
Obama vows end to irresponsible budgets
AFP, Washington
US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday that irresponsible budgets were a tiling of the past as he promised bold action to help the United States emerge from the current economic crisis stronger than before.
In his weekly radio address, Obama said his administration had inherited a 1.3-trill ion -dollar budget deficit --and a budgeting process that he called "irresponsible as it is unsustainable."
He argued that for years Washington as well as Wall Street had used accounting tricks to conceal real costs of programs.
"These kinds of irresponsible budgets - and inexcusable practices -- are now in the past," the president said. "For the first time in many years, my administration has produced a budget that represents an honest reckoning of where we are and where we need to go."
Last month, the Obama administration rolled out an audacious 3.55-trillion-dollar budget proposal that bristles with economic reforms and spending on healthcare, climate change and education.
The plan includes more than 600 billion dollars over 10 years for a "down payment" on healthcare reform and a similar annual sum for defense.
Financial crisis hits Ireland's
St Patrick's Day exodus
AFP, Dublin
The controversial annual exodus of Ireland’s leaders heading off around the world for St Patrick's Day will be sharply cut back this year because of the financial crisis, the government said on Friday.
In the boom years of the Celtic Tiger economy virtually all the Emerald Isle's government jetted off for the March 17 holiday but now recession-hit Ireland is curtailing the promotional trips to visit the diaspora.
The number of ministers travelling abroad this year has been halved and all government departments have been told to ensure that costs are kept to a minimum.
There has been criticism that visits to the country's ubiquitous expatriates -- every city on earth seems to have at least one Irish pub — are junkets and Prime Minister Brian Cowen has acknowledged concerns about the cost.
"I know that some people question the value of these trips, particularly during this severe economic downturn, but St Patrick's Day gives Ireland a global platform that is the envy of practically every country in the world," he said.
India seeks global symbol for rupee
AFP, New Delhi
India announced Friday a contest to design a global symbol for the rupee so that the currency can join the likes of the US dollar and the yen which already have their own identifiable symbols.
The new symbol will be the "identity of the Indian currency," a finance ministry statement said.
"Major world currencies like the US dollar, pound, yen and euro have an identification symbol. The government of India is also proposing to have a symbol for the rupee," finance ministry official B.S. Rawat told AFP.
"The symbol for (Jie Indian rupee is to be selected through a public competition" that closes on April 15, Rawat said.
The currency is at present denoted simply by "Rs" or "INR" which is short for Indian rupee.
But Rawat said these were not "symbols’ but "abbreviations" for the word rupee and hence the contest that Is open to artists who are "resident Indians."