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India's inflation falls to 0.26pc
A1P, New Delhi
India's inflation rate slipped closer to zero, official data showed Thursday, giving the central bank more room to cut interest rates to bolster a flagging economy.
Annual inflation eased to 0.26 percent for the week ended March 28 from 0.31 percent for the previous week, according to the Wholesale Price Index, India's most watched cost-of-living barometer.
Premier Manmohan Singh has said low inflation has given headroom for "further moderation" in interest rates to lift India's economy which has been growing at its slowest pace in six years.
The central bank holds its next monetary policy meet-ingon April 21.
The bank has slashed its key short-term lending rate to commercial banks by 400 basis points since October to a record low of five percent as it tries to jumpstart loan activity and consumer demand.
The inflation rate has slid from a 13-year high of 12.91 percent last August due to the tumble in oil and other global commodity prices as well as the effects of the worldwide economic slowdown.
Analysts expect the wholesale price index, which measures producer prices, to turn negative within weeks.
But they say any deflation would be a mainly "technical" phenomenon due to last year's high base comparison and that there are still strong cost pressures in the economy, noting a rise in steel and other prices.
Germany unveils first bank nationalisation
AFP, Frankfurt
Germany launched Thursday its first bank nationalisation since the republic's birth in 1949, with a key US shareholder set to pay a high price as officials try to stabilise financial markets.
Berlin, acting through the Financial Markets Stabilisation Fund (SoFFin), said it would offer shareholders in troubled Hypo Real Estate 1.39 euros per share for their stock.
That price means the government, which already holds 8.7 percent of the bank, will have to pay about 290 million euros (385 million dollars) to buy out the other shareholders.
Investors will have two weeks to tender their shares once the offer is approved by the stock market regulator Bafin.
Analysts recommended the bid but Christopher Flowers, an American who heads a consortium that owns almost 24 percent of the bank, played his cards close to the chest.
"The preference of JC Flowers is still to stay in the capital of the bank," a spokesman told AFP, before adding: "However, Mr. Flowers will study the offer."
Flowers paid 1.1 billion euros for the holding or 22.50 euros per share.
Bank of England holds interest rates at record-low 0.5pc
AFP, London
The Bank of England said Thursday it had held interest rates at a record-low of 0.5 percent and had so far pumped 26 billion pounds of new money into the economy under ongoing "quantitative easing."
"The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee today voted to maintain the official Bank Rate paid on commercial bank reserves at 0.5 percent," the British central bank said in a statement.
"The Committee also voted to continue with the programme, announced on 5 March, of asset purchases totalling 75 billion pounds financed by the issuance of central bank reserves."
The BoE launched a quantitative easing (QE) plan last month to create the new money to buy government bonds from commercial banks in a bid to unblock the credit crunch in Britain's recession-hit economy.
"The Committee noted that since its previous meeting a total of just over 26 billion pounds of asset purchases had been made and that it would take a further two months to complete that programme," the bank added.
Malaysia's industrial output drops 14.7pc
Al P, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian industrial output dropped 14.7 percent year-on-year in February amid declines in the manufacturing, mining and electricity sectors, according to official data released Thursday.
Manufacturing tumbled 18.8 percent in February compared to a year ago, mining fell 7.3 percent amid lower crude oil and gas prices while electricity generation fell by 3.0 percent.
Revised figures showed industrial output plunged 19.8 percent in January as demand for exports of manufactured goods dropped significantly amid a worsening global economic downturn.
Last month, Malaysia unveiled a stimulus package worth 16.2 billion dollars but warned the export-driven economy could still shrink by 1.0 percent this year despite the massive spending.