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Australian investment in surprise 3.3pc rise
AFP, Sydney
Australian business investment showed a surprise jump of 3.3 percent quarter-on-quarter Thursday, increasing the likelihood that the economy will avoid a technical recession.
Analysts had tipped a 5.0 percent fall in private new capital investment, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics said spending on equipment and machinery had boosted the figure for the June quarter.
Economists said the rise, indicating increased economic activity, meant Australia was less likely to post a quarterly contraction in figures released nextWednesday.
"I think the outlook, given capacity utilisation may well be starting to turn the corner, suggests some potential upside (to second-quarter growth)," said David De Garis, National Australia Bank senior economist.
Australia registered surprise 0.4 percent growth in the three months to March, becoming the only major Western nation at the time to avoid recession during the global slump.
The government, in its official budget forecasts, flagged a 0.5 percent contraction in 2009-2010 before a rise to 2.25 percent growth in 2010-2011.
De Garis said he expected next week's growth figures would show a gross domestic product rise of 0.5 percent on-quarter.
SAIC H1 profit down 26pc on Ssangyong investment
Al P,Shanghai
SAIC Motor Corp, China’s biggest automaker, said its first-half net profit dropped 26 percent from a year earlier due to write-offs related to its ailing South Korean unit Ssangyong Motor.
SAIC posted a net profit of 1.45 billion yuan (212.2 million dollars) in the six-month period, down from 1.97 billion yuan earned in the first half of last year, it said in a statement filed Wednesday to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Revenue rose 6.7 percent in the period to 61.3 billion yuan, boosted by government incentives such as a cut in taxes on small cars and subsidies for buyers of fuelefficient vehicles in rural areas, it said.
The company blamed the decline in earnings on its investment in Ssangyong Motor, in which it holds a 51.3 percent stake but lost management control when the firm sought bankruptcy protection.
It booked a loss on paper of 1.2 billion yuan for the period from its investment in South Korea's smallest automaker, the statement said.
Ssangyong resumed production this month after 83 days due to a crippling and violent strike, but analysts said its future remained uncertain as the company will struggle to win back consumers amid weak global auto sales.
British watchdog eyes tax on banks to curb bonuses
AFP, London
Britain's financial watchdog on Thursday waded into an international row over bank bonuses ahead of a G20 summit, saying it would support moves to impose extra taxes in an attempt to curb excessive pay.
"If you want to stop excessive pay in a swollen financial sector you have to reduce the size of that sector or apply special taxes," Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), told Prospect magazine.
"Higher capital requirements against trading activities will be our most powerful tool to eliminate excessive activity and profits.
"And if increased capital requirements are insufficient I am happy to consider taxes on financial transactions," Turneradded.
Excessive risk-taking, resulting in massive bonuses for bankers, has been blamed for helping spark the global financial crisis that led to multi-billion dollar government bailouts of world banks.
A meeting of G20 finance ministers next week, before a summit of the world's biggest economies in September, will discuss the issue of bankers' bonuses.
US new home sales leap 9.6pc
AFP, Washington
Sales of new US homes surged 9.6 percent in July, according to government data Wednesday that showed further signs of recovery in the troubled housing sector.
Sales of new single-family homes rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000, the Commerce Department said. That was well above analyst estimates of390,000.
Nonetheless, the figure was 13.4 percent below the sales pace of a year ago, and gains came amid price cuts.
The median sales price of new houses sold in July 2009 was 210,100 dollars, down slightly from 210,400 in June and 11 percent below last year's median price.
The average sales price of 269,200 dollars was down 2.7 percent from a month earlier and off 10 percent from a year earlier.
Inventory levels came down in July, reducing the glut of new homes for sale.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of July was 271,000, a supply of 7.5 months at the current sales rate.