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International Business News
India inflation upas food prices soar
Al l’, New Delhi
Indian inflation accelerated sharply as the weakest monsoon in decades helped drive up food prices, official data showed Thursday.
Prices rose by a faster-than-expected 0.83 percent year-on year for the weekended September 12, according to the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), India’s most-watched cost-of-living benchmark.
The rise outpaced analysts' forecasts of a gain of around 0.68 percent in annual inflation. Inflation stood at 0.37 percent the previous week.
The cost-of-living data was pushed up by increases in (he prices of raw food items, which climbed by 16.32 percent on an annual basis, driven mainly by a near 50-percent rise in vegetable prices.
The figures came a day after the weather office announced India had suffered its worst drought since 1972 with rains 23 percent below average at the end of cite four-month monsoon season.
After a period of statistical deflation since June, the latest figures confront the central bank with a dilemma about when to take the first steps to tighten monetary policy to keep a lid on prices as the economy recovers.
Economists have forecast inflation could reach eight percent by March 2010, significantly beyond the central bank's five percent estimate. Europe sets deadline to tackle bloated national debts
AFP, Gothenburg
Europe set a deadline on Thursday to end economic pump priming with a pledge to tackle member states' bloated deficits in 2011, the keystone of exit strategies.
"We think that exit strategies, which must be prepared from today, can be applied during 2011," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads up the group of 16 countries that use the euro single currency.
Juncker's timetable was conditional on further improvement in economic data, which has already lifted France and Germany out of recession, with the 16 also expecting to record notional growth in the quarter that ended on Wednesday.
"The economic situation, for all it presents positive signs, remains very fragile." Juncker explained. "We have to wait for the European Commission's 2011 economic forecast (at the start of November).
"The time has not yet come... to withdraw fiscal stimulus in particular. We have to prepare exit strategies today of course, and see then whether they can be implemented in 2011.
"(But) the exit strategies have to be combined with structural packages, with the aim to enhance our growth potential." Embattled Bank of America
CEO Lewis to retire
AFP, New York
Bank of America chief executive Kenneth Lewis, at the center of a storm over a government-backed deal to buy Merrill Lynch last year, announced plans to retire December31.
Lewis, who had lost the post of chairman earlier this year at an angry shareholder meeting, "notified the board of directors of his decision to retire, effective December 31,2009, " the company said in a statement Wednesday.
"The board will continue ongoing planning to ensure his successor is selected by that date. Lewis will retire as CEO and as a director."
Lewis, who heads the largest US banking group by assets, said "Bank of America is well positioned to meet the continuing challenges of the economy and markets.
"I am particularly heartened by the results that are emerging from the decisions and initiatives of the difficult past year-and-a-half," he added.
Lewis had provoked shareholders' anger by acquiring Merrill Lynch without informing them of the investment bank's massive losses. Spanish car sales show first rise in 16 months
AFP, Madrid
New car registrations in Spain leapt 18 percent in September on a 12-month basis, the first increase for 16 months as government incentives spurred sales, industry data showed on Thursday.
The Spanish auto sector, along with the property market, has been particularly hard hit by the global economic crisis which has had a severe effect in Spain.
A total of 77,374 cars were registered during the month, up from 65,594 in September 2008, Spanish car manufacturers' association ANFAC said in a statement.
It is the first month since April 2008 that the number of new car registrations in Spain has increased on a annual basks.
The sharp drop in auto sales began easing in Spain after a government subsidy for new car purchases of between 1,500 and 2,000 euros (2,186 and 2,915 dollars) came Into effect on May 18.
Registrations were flat in August, after falling by 10.9 percent in July and 15.9 percent in June.