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Sanofi-aventis to pick up Shantha stakes
Pallab Bhattacharya, Nov Delhi
French drug manufacturer Sanofi-aventis will pick up a controlling stake in Indian vaccine maker Shantha Biotechnics in a deal estimated at $783 million in the first major acquisition in Indian biotechnology sector.
The acquisition of 78 percent stake in Shantha Biotechnics is being done through Sanofi's vaccine making arm Sanofi Pasteur, which has signed an agreement with Merieux Alliance's French subsidiary ShanH. ShanH holds the stake in the Indian company.
Merieux Alliance acquired 60 per cent stake in Shantha Biotechnics three years ago.
Britain's GlaxoSmithKline was earlier reportedly interested in acquiring Shantha Technicis and had held talks with Mareiux.
Shantha, which expects sales of around $90 million this year, has introduced hepatitis B vaccine, the first genetically engineered healthcare product in India.
Among a wide portfolio of products of the Indian company are vaccines for diptheria, cholera, pertussis and tetanus.
Australian central banker warns rates must rise
AFP, Sydney
Australia's central bank chief Tuesday voiced growing confidence the economy would escape the worst of the global downturn and said he was looking at raising interest rates from a 49-year low.
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens said the country may not be hit as badly as previous slumps, commenting that Australians were increasingly seeing their glass as "half-full."
"The downturn we are having may turn out not to be one of the more serious ones of the post-War era, in contrast to the experiences of so many other countries," he told a business function.
"It is becoming more common for Australians to see the glass as half-full than as half-empty."
Signalling the most aggressive rate cuts of recent times may be over, Stevens said there was nothing to prevent monetary policy tightening while unemployment was on the rise.
"I've never seen... some rule of thumb that says we wait until unemployment has peaked before we lift the cash rate, it depends on what else is happening," he said.
"We eased very aggressively, which I thought was a right thing to do. Hopefully we're in a suitably timely way of returning to normal when the time for that comes, whenever that is.”
China says inflation rebound possible in second half
AFP, Beijing
China's central bank said Tuesday a rebound in inflation was possible in the second half of the year, following months of declining prices, as demand picks up at home and abroad.
The consumer price index (CPI) fell 1.7 percent in June from a year earlier, the fifth consecutive monthly drop, but economists at the bank believe it could bottom out by the end of the third quarter.
"Overall, CPI will stabilise in the second half, and there is a possibility that it will rebound," the bank said in a report posted on its website.
The continued decline in consumer prices comes as China struggles with its most serious economic slowdown in nearly two decades, brought about by the worldwide financial crisis.
However, the central bank on Tuesday suggested improved conditions on the horizon, including signs of recovery in global commodities markets.
It also cited evidence from 5,000 large domestic industrial enterprises suggesting growing confidence that they would be able to get better prices for their products in future.
China’s economy, the world's third-largest, grew 7.9 percent in the second quarter, up from 6.1 percent in the first, also suggesting a pickup in activity.
French unemployment numbers drop
AFP, Paris
The number of unemployed in France saw a surprise drop in June, official figures showed on Monday, but a top French official warned of "difficult" months ahead for unemployment.
After 11 consecutive months of rising numbers, the numbers of people without a job went down by 18,600 in the month to 2,524,500, the figures showed.
But the overall number of unemployed was up 25.7 percent from June 2008.
France's junior employment minister Laurent Wauquiez said the numbers were "a nice surprise" but said there would still be "difficult" times ahead.
" I don't think we’ve come out of the crisis," he told AFP
French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said the unemployment figures were "an encouraging sign," adding however that "even a gradual recovery' of economic-activity will not lead to an immediate scaling back of unemployment.”