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US unveils $500b bank clean-up
AFP, Wiuhtn^toti
The United States unveiled a SOO-billion*dollar programme to rid troubled banks of their bad assets, winning immediate approval from investors on Monday as stock markets soared.
US Treasury Secretary' Timothy Geithner wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the initiative would set up a market for troubled loans and securities, freeing up banks to lend again.
In another positive development, President Barack Obama also said he could see "Bickers of hope" for the recession-hit US economy and expressed cautious opti-misrnover a quick recovery.
Well, we're already starting to see flickers of hope out there," Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes. "
Now there's a potential silver lining, which may be that things are so accelerated now, the modern economy is so intertwined and wired, that things happen really fast for ill, but things may recover faster than they have in the past," he added.
Markets cheered the latest news from the United States, with Japan's Nikkei index closing up 3.39 percent at a nearly two-month high on the back of the banking plan.
Sydney was up 2.4 percent and Hong Kong was more than three percent higher at lunch.
Eurozone trade deficit swells j as exports collapse: EU !
AFP, Brussels
The 16 euro nations saw their trade balance with the rest the world deteriorate in January as exports collapsed in the face of a weak global economy, official EU data showed on Monday.
The eurozone chalked up a trade deficit of 10.5 billion euros (14.3 billion dollars) in January after a shortfall of only 1.7 billion euros in December, the European Union's Eurostat data agency said in a first estimate.
Data adjusted for seasonal variations showed that exports slumped by 10.7 percent over the period while imports fell by 7.3 percent.
Despite the deterioration from December, the January trade gap was not as wide as the 11.1 - billion-euro deficit that the eurozone recorded in January 2008.
Economist Howard Archer at consultants IHS Global Insight said that the deterioration in the eurozone's trade balance showed that the effects of limp export markets were outweighing the positive impact of a weaker euro.
" Extremely weak global economic activity seems certain to continue to hit Eurozone exporters very' hard over the coming months, thereby contributing significantly to the region's ongoing serious economic problems," he said
Russia likely to see growth in Q4
AFP, Moscow
The Russian economy will record economic growth in the fourth quarter this year after contracting in the first three quarters compared with 2008, a deputy minister said on Monday.
"We are expecting there to be GDP growth in the fourth quarter," Russian news agencies quoted deputy minister for economic development Andrei Klepach as saying.
The ministry said last week that the Russian economy contracted by 8.0 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2009, compared with a contraction of 8.8 percent in January.
Although a year-on-year contraction is also expected in the second and third quarters, "the magnitude of the fall will be less" than in the first, said Klepach.
The ministry is expecting a contraction in first quarter GDP of 7.0 percent from first quarter 2008.
Klepach also said a forecast of a 2.2 percent contraction in GDP for the full year remained in place.
"This is a base forecast but there are risks, in particular a decline in investment, that could cause a big fall (in GDP)," he said, adding that falling consumer demand could also pose problems.
Thai economy could shrink 3pc in 2009
AFP, Bangkok
Thailand's finance minister warned Monday that the kingdom's economy could contract by as much as three percent this year following a slowdown in exports and sluggish domestic consumption.
The state National Economic and Social Development Board has estimated gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2009 at between minus one and zero percent, but Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said the outlook was bleaker.
Even with a raft of stimulus packages aimed at boosting the struggling economy, Korn said the kingdom was looking at a GDP drop of three percent.
The ministry decided to adjust the projection of our GDP this year as failing exports and domestic consumption will lead GDP to contract further than our previous projection," he told reporters.
"If the government does nothing, our GDP will contract up to nine percent."
Thai exports fell 11.3 percent year-on-year in February while January exports were down 26.5 percent, due to weak demand as the global financial meltdown hits key markets in the United States. Europe and Japan.