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Indian imports to sustain 30-year-high sugar prices
Al l’, Mumbai
Global sugar prices are likely to stay high in the coming year, analysts say, as India, tire world's largest consumer of the commodity, reels from poor monsoon rains that will force it to rely on imports.
India could import more than six million tonnes this fiscal year, its highest in a decade.
That will keep world prices high for a commodity whose supply is expected to fall short of demand by some nine million tonnes globally in 2008-09, according to the International Sugar Organisation (ISO).
In India, sugar has major social and political implications, is a key part of the diet and an essential ingredient for delicacies at religious festivals.
"With the monsoon weak, India's sugar imports could rise to six to seven million tonnes in 2009-10 to meet local consumption demands of 26 million tonnes," said Mehul Agrawal, sugar analyst at equity research firm Sharekhan.
"Each time India enters the global market, prices could spike."
On Monday, sugar markets around the world jumped to highs not seen since the 1980s.
The benchmark raw sugar futures at the New Yorkbased Intercontinental exchange rose five percent at 22 cents a pound for October delivery -- the highest since March 30,1981.
White sugar prices also increased to a 26-year high in London at 557.4 dollar a tonne.
GM seeks to outdo Toyota with eco-friendly Chevy Volt
AFP, New York
Troubled US auto giant General Motors sought to trump Toyota by announcing that its Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid will save four times more fuel than the Japanese carmaker's Prius.
The former world leader in auto manufacturing, now 60 percent owned by the US government, said Tuesday that it would begin production in late 2010 on its new electric sedan, which will be marketed in 2011.
The Chevrolet Volt will be the "first mass-produced vehicle to claim more than 100 miles per gallon (42.51 kilometres per litre) composite fuel economy," GM boasted in a statement.
It said the Volt, whose prototype was first unveiled in early 2007, was expected to achieve city fuel economy of at least 230 miles per gallon (100 kilometres per 1.02 litres), based on development testing using government fuel economy methodology for labelling for plug-in electricvehicles.
Toyota's Prius, which was first introduced in the United States in 1997 and whose fourth generation vehicle was presented this year, gets 50 miles per gallon (21.26 kilometres per litre).
BHP Billiton profit falls 30pc
AFP, Melbourne
The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton on Wednesday said annual profits fell 30.2 percent as commodities demand slumped, ending a seven-year run of record results but still beating market forecasts.
Net profit for the 12 months to June was 10.72 billion US dollars excluding one-off items, down 4.67 billion on the previous year as the China-driven resources boom slowed.
While the result narrowly bettered the 10.2 billion dollars predicted by analysts, profits including exceptional items plunged 61.8 percent to 5.877 billion dollars.
BHP said it had seen a collapse in demand for commodities early in the year as the world economy slowed, partially offset by government stimulus measures including China's massive four-trillion-yuan (585 billion dollars) package.
The Anglo-Australian company described the profit as "a strong financial result" in the circumstances, with chief executive Marius Kloppers expressing cautious optimism that markets were improving.
Sri Lanka launches mobile network in former warzone
AFP, Colombo
A Malaysian telecom group said on Wednesday it had launched a mobile phone network in Sri Lanka's former warzone, becoming the first international company to operate in the area.
Dialog Telekom, a unit of Malaysia's Axiata Group Berhad and Sri Lanka's biggest mobile operator, said it had set up base stations in northern areas previously held by the rebel Tigers.
"We now have a mobile footprint into areas that did not have cellular coverage before," Dialog's chief executive, HansWijayasuriya, told reporters.
The northern expansion drive is part of Dialog's network plans to install 60 base stations in the war- torn areas at a cost of up to 10 million dollars this year, Wijayasuriya said.
The government declared the end of fighting with Tamil rebels after crushing the guerrilla leadership in mid- May following a decades-long ethnic conflict.