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Gulf single currency should be phased: Kuwait
AFP, Kuwait City
Gulf slates should implement a monetary union and single currency in phases. Kuwait's central bank governor said in comments published on Sunday, casting further doubt on a 2010 target date.
"Due to the limited progress achieved so far... I believe that the best way is to work out an administrative plan for the monetary union and single currency and implement it in stages." Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz al-Sabah told Awan newspaper.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plans to launch monetary union and a single currency in 2010, although many experts believe the target date is too ambitious and unrealistic.
Kuwait was one of four GCC members which in June signed an accord to create a joint monetary union council. a prelude to establishing a Gulf central bank and launching monetary union and a single currency.
OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia. Qatar and Bahrain also signed the pact, while the remaining two members, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, did not.
The UAE was upset at the Saudi capital Riyadh being selected to host the future GCC central bank, while Oman withdrew from the monetary union in 2007 saying it was not ready to meet the preconditions.
Spain looks to higher taxes to rein in deficit
AFP, Madrid
Spain's government Saturday approved a draft budget providing for tax hikes worth nearly 11 billion euros to rein in the deficit as it struggles with recession and Europe’s highest jobless rate.
"The sum of these measures will result in revenue of around 10.95 billion euros (16.07 billion dollars), or around one percent of our gross domestic product," Economy Minister Elena Salgado said after a cabinet meeting.
Under the new budget, the main rate of value-added tax will rise from 16 percent to 18 percent and a lower rate from seven percent to eight percent, starting July 1. The lowest rate of all will remain at four percent.
The government also intends to end a 400-euro income tax allowance and hike the tax on capital investment revenue, from 18 percent to 19 percent on the first 6,000 euros and 21 percent thereafter.
The government, which denies it risks hindering an economic recovery that it expects to begin in 2010, also cut public spending projects by 3.9 percent from 2009 to 185.24 billion euros.
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had made reducing taxes a key plank of his government since taking office in 2004.
Belgian banks seek millions from Lehman bankruptcy
AFP, Brussels
Belgian creditors of failed Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers have demanded some 700 million dollars (480 million euros) from its administrator, local news media reported Saturday.
The five largest Lehman creditors in Belgium are Dexia bank at 354.2 million dollars, ING Belgium at 125.2 million, Fortis at 99.5 million, KBC at 81.1 million and Axa Belgium at 23.3 million, the Echo and DeTijd newspapers said.
Others include energy firm Electrabel and financial cooperative Swift, as well as religious congregations and charitable organisations.
The deadline for claims set by the US bankruptcy court was September 22, more than a year after the shock failure of Lehman Brothers.
Lehman's collapse sowed panic in boardrooms, government offices and households around the world and has come to symbolise the beginning of a steep slump that plunged the global economy into recession.
Venezuela to inject $3b to market this week
AFP, Porlamar. Venezuela
Venezuela's government said Saturday it will inject three billion dollars into its domestic market this week in a bid to regain liquidity in its economy.
fit's going to be immediate," said Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez about the injection's impact at the start of the fourth quarter, upon his arrival at the Africa-South America summit taking place here.
The three billion figure is more than half of the five billion dollars that Chavez announced earlier this month as part of a package of 40 measures seeking to bolster the country's economy.
He said injection would begin on October 1 "to produce a reactivation of the economy in the final quarter."
Venezuela's GDP contracted by 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2009, after 22 consecutive quarters of growth.