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Samsung to recruit 5,500 graduates amid crisis
AFP, Seoul
Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, Wednesday announced plans to hire 5,500 college graduates this year despite the global economic downturn.
The company originally planned to recruit 4,000 full time employees this year, compared with 7,500 last year.
"But this was revised upward to 5,500 in order to give greater opportunities to recent college graduates," it said in a statement, adding its affiliates would also recruit 2.000 interns.
But the conglomerate has not set a group-wide investment plan for 2009 due to concerns about the deepening global crisis.
In the final quarter of last year Samsung Electronics, the group’s flagship business, reported its first ever quarterly loss, which it said amounted to 20 billion won (13.8 million dollars).
For the full year the world 's largest memory chip maker saw its net profit drop 25 percent from a year ago to 5.53 trillion won.
The country's unemployment rate stood at 3.6 percent in January, compared to 3.3 percent a month earlier, despite a government drive to save jobs by expanding fiscal and tax incentives to companies.
UBS says earnings 'at risk for some time to come1
AFP, Zurich
Troubled Swiss bank UBS issued a grim outlook Wednesday, saying that its earnings would be "at risk for some time to come" after it revised upwards its full-year loss for 2008 to 20.9 billion franc.
The new figure -- equivalent to 14.2 billion euros or 17.9 billion dollars -- reflects a charge of 1. 19 billion francs to settle a tax fraud case with the US government.
UBS -- which initially disclosed a full-year loss of nearly 19.7 billion francs, the biggest in Swiss corporate history — has been struggling to recover from billions of losses and writedowns incurred on the US subprime home loan crisis and the ensuing global financial fallout.
Last month, it admitted to abetting tax fraud in the United States and paid 780 million dollars to settle the case.
But the US government has since filed a lawsuit to force the firm to disclose the identities of as many as 52,000 US customers who allegedly evaded taxes.
UBS acknowledged Wednesday in its annual report that worsening financial conditions, as well as what it called problems unique to UBS, had "adversely affected our results," particularly in its investment banking operations.
It also issued an extremely cautious outlook for the near-term.
Fraud-hit Satyam's suitors may get financial data
AFP, New Delhi
India's fraud-hit Satyam may give prospective buyers financial statements for the two most recent quarters to help them decide whether to make an offer, a report said Wednesday.
The statements will include revenue figures, client additions and operating margins but will not give bidders an idea of liabilities that Satyam may face, the Business Standard newspaper reported, quoting an unidentified source.
A company spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the report, which said Satyam would give potential buyers financial statements for two quarters -October to December 2008 and January to March 2009 — to help them reach a decision on bidding.
Any bidder has to consider potential liabilities from at least 13 lawsuits filed in the US courts by defrauded shareholders.
Satyam has been battling for survival since January when its founder B. Ramalinga Raju, now in jail, declared he inflated the firm’s balance sheet by more than one billion dollars and fudged its profits for years.
HSBC to expand in China despite crisis
AFP, Shanghai
Global banking giant HSBC said Wednesday it will continue expanding its China network, already the largest of any foreign lender, despite the financial crisis.
HSBC plans to boost its China outlets to around 100 from 82 at present, and increase its payroll in the country by almost one fifth to nearly 7,000 by the end of this year, according to a statement from the bank.
"China is at the centre of the HSBC Group's emerging markets strategy," Richard Yorke, president and chief executive of HSBC China, said in the statement.
We have great confidence in China's ability to weather the financial crisis and achieve continued economic growth."
The bank said the pre-tax profit of its China operations jumped 85.2 percent to 2.19 billion yuan (320.3 million dollars) in 2008 despite the impact of the global downturn.