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US jobless rate hit historic 10.2pc
AFP, Washington
US unemployment jumped to double digits in October for the first time since 1983, reaching 10.2 percent and underscoring slow progress toward curbing joblessness in an economy emerging from recession.
Friday's tabor Department report, seen as one of the best indicators of economic momentum, showed job losses narrowed last month to 190,000.
The improvement was not enough however to prevent the jobless rate from surging to the first double-digit level for more than 26 years, from 9.8 percent in September.
President Barack Obama called the numbers "sobering" and said his administration was considering "further steps" to spark job growth.
"To that end my economic team is looking at ideas such as additional investments in our aging roads and bridges, incentives to create jobs and steps to increase the flow of credit to small businesses," he added.
Christina Romer, chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said the report "contained both signs of hope for recovery and painful evidence of continued labor market weakness.
"Having the unemployment rate reach double digits is a stark reminder of how much work remains to be done before American families see the job gains and reduced unemployment that they need and deserve," Romer said.
Gold price hits record after
'Sri Lanka purchase1
AFP,London
The price of gold hit a record high above 1,100 dollars an ounce in trading here on Friday following a report that Sri Lanka had joined India in purchasing the precious metal in favour of the US currency.
"The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has announced that it is buying gold to diversify its reserves," industry body the World Gold Council (WGC) said in a statement issued before gold struck a record high of 1,101.42 dollars.
It later pulled back to stand at 1,092.65 dollars an ounce in late London trading.
Gold had struck a series of highs already this week after the IMF said it had carried out a massive sale of the precious metal to India.
"Over the past year central banks, which have been net sellers of gold are now a new and increasingly important source of demand," WGC chief executive Aram Shishmanian said in the council's statement.
"This latest announcement demonstrates that many central banks are reassessing their reserve asset management policies." Signals of economic recovery strong: OECD
AFP, Paris
Green shoots of recovery are beginning to look like strong sapplings of growth, with indicators pulling strongly ahead in China, Britain, France and Italy, the OECD said on Friday.
"A recovery is clearly visible in the United States, Japan and all other OECD economies and major non-OECD economies."
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said that "tentative signals of expansion have emerged in Canada and Germany."
The OECD, which represents 30 leading industrialised economies, said that its "composite leading indicators continue to show strong signals of recovery."
This measure for the OECD area had risen by 1.3 points in September and was 3.4 points higher than in September of last year.
But the OECD said these signals should be interpreted with caution because they measured expected improvement in economic activity against long-term potential levels of activity.
Two Japanese trust
banks to merge
AFP, Tokyo
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. and Chuo Mitsui lYust Holdings announced Friday they had agreed on a merger to create Japan's largest trust bank sitting on assets of two trillion dollars.
The deal is the latest attempt by Japan's financial firms to adapt to a tough outlook due to the weak economy, ageing society and shrinking population.
The two banks have reached a basic agreement to integrate their management in April 2011 and merge their operations into a single trust bank the following year. The merger ratio was not announced.
Together they would have assets under under custody of 181 trillion yen (2.0 trillion dollars).