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Japan to offer $38.4b to Asian forex reserve pool
AFP, Nusa Dua, Indonesia
Japan will contribute 38.4 billion dollars to an Asian emergency currency pool to bolster state finances amid the global economic slump, Finance and Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano said Sunday.
He made die announcement after meeting the finance ministers of China and South Korea on the Indonesian island of Bali, where the Asian Development Bank is holding its annual governors' meeting.
The pool known as the Chiang Mai Initiative aims to create a network of bilateral swap arrangements among the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) as well as China, Japan and South Korea, orAsean+3.
Yosano said China would also offer 38.4 billion dollars to the initiative, of which the "basic idea is that Japan, China and Korea cooperate to provide support to Asean nations."
The Asean+3 nations have decided that Asean's 10 member states would contribute 20 percent to the initiative worth 120 billion dollars while Japan, China and Soudi Korea would supply the rest.
Fiat boss to discuss Opel bid with German ministers
AFP, Berlin
Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne is to have talks with top German ministers in Berlin Monday amid reports of a bid for Opel after taking a stake in US auto company Chrysler, the government said Saturday.
Marchionne will be meeting Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, their departments said.
Fiat earlier denied it was already in negotiations to buy Opel but said it would look into a deal with the firm, a German-based unit of struggling US auto giant General Motors which has said it will cede its majority stake.
"Now we have to concentrate on Opel: it's our ideal partner," Marchionne told La Stampa newspaper Friday after returning from the United States, where he negotiated a global alliance with Chrysler announced on Thursday.
Under that deal, Fiat will take a 20-percent equity stake in the new Chrysler following its bankruptcy. It can increase this to a 51-percent controlling stake from 2013 as long as Chrysler pays back massive state loans.
According to IG Metall trade union official Armin Schild, a member of Opel's supervisory board, Fiat has already prepared an offer for Opel, of less than 750 million euros (990 million dollars).
ECB set for final rate cut, analysts say
AFP, Frankfurt
The European Central Bank will unveil record low interest rates and other ways to pull eurozone members from their worst recession in six decades at a landmark meeting here this week, analysts say.
"The May meeting of the ECB promises to be a key signpost in monetary policy, as least for the current year," said chief eurozone economist Aurelio Maccario from the Italian bank UniCredit.
"The ECB Council is seldom likely to make as many decisions as it will at the meeting next Thursday," added Michael Schubert at Commerzbank, with the rate cut probably its last in this cycle.
In addition to lowering the bank's benchmark lending rate by a quarter point to an all-time lowof 1.0 percent and pledging to keep it there for a while, analysts think the ECB will extend the length of its unlimited loans to banks from six months to one year.
The central bank will have cut its main rate by 3.25 percentage points in seven stages since October, and several ECB governors have indicated that 1.0 percent is as low as they are prepared to go.
Markets expect more bailouts after bank stress tests
AFP, New York
US banking regulators and the Federal Reserve are set to release Thursday results from stress tests of the country's 19 biggest banks and estimates for further public aid to help boost the ailing economy.
The tests, which measure the banks' financial stability, will cap a period of suspense that began when President Barack Obama's administration in February unveiled its overhaul of the bank bailout in a bid to restore stability to the financial system of the world's largest economy.
Bank-specific details will be unveiled Thursday, according to a government official.
Although specifics about the tests have not yet been released, critics have questioned the relevance and the motivations behind the process.
"Some have found that the criteria were not severe enough, others that the tests are based on overly pessimistic economic forecasts, with an estimated 3.3 percent contraction of the economy this year," said Gregory VolokhineofMeeschaertNewYork.