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Kuwait half-year income surpasses full year target
AFP, Kuwait ary
Kuwait's income in the first half of the fiscal year hit 28.7 billion dollars, surpassing the budgeted full-year target thanks to a better-than-expected oil price, the finance ministry said Monday.
Earnings in the six months to September 30 are 12 percent above projected income for the 2009/2010 fiscal year of 28.1 billion dollars, according to figures posted on the ministry's website.
Actual spending in the period came in at 11.2 billion dollars, or just 26.6 percent of projected expenditure of 42.1 billion dollars for the whole year, the ministry said.
That leaves a provisional healthy surplus of 17.5 billion dollars against a projected deficit of 14 billion dollars.
Kuwait has projected shortfalls in the past 10 fiscal years but eventually ended with a massive surplus in all of them. Kuwait's fiscal year runs from April 1 toMarch31.
Oil revenues in the first six months hit 27.1 billion dollars, 12 percent above budget projections of 24.1 billion dollars due to d sharp rise in crude prices in the past few months.
India's Reliance in talks
for major US takeover
AFP, Mumbai
Indian refining giant Reliance Industries is in talks with stricken US petrochemicals group Lyondell-Basell to buy some of its US assets, a source told AFP Monday.
The purchase, which would signal the cross-border acquisition market is picking up again after the global financial crisis, is under discussion and might be announced this month, the source said.
"Talks are on at present, but details are to be finalised," the source, who is familiar with the talks, said on condition of anonymity.
The Economic Times newspaper reported that Reliance was planning to make an announcement before its annual general meeting on November 17, with the transaction valued at between 3.35 and 6.0 billion dollars.
The financial daily said it had consulted bankers and analysts, one of whom said the transaction, if it included European and US assets, could be around six billion dollars. IMF warns Sri Lanka against borrowing
AFP, Colombo
The IMF on Monday warned Sri Lanka against issuing government bonds to build up foreign currency reserves after it released the second instalment of a 2.6-billion-dollar bailout.
The International Monetary Fund said Colombo's reserves were at a "comfortable position" having slumped to a historic low of one billion dollars earlier this year, but cautioned against more borrowing.
"There is a difference between borrowed reserves and reserves collected from the current account (of the balance of payments), like booming exports," IMF resident representative in Sri Lanka, Koshi Mathai, told reporters.
Sri Lanka's reserves topped a record five billion dollars after the IMF on Friday released 329.4 million dollars, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said.
Gazprom first-half profits plunge 49.8pc
AFP, Moscow
Russian energy giant Gazprom, the world's biggest gas firm, said on Monday that net profit plunged 49.8 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to the figure 12 months earlier owing to higher expenses.
I lalf-year profits fell to 305.8 billion rubles (10.6 billion dollars), compared to 609.4 billion rubles (21 billion dollars) in the first six months of 2008, the company said in a statement.
Operating expenses and financial charges rose sharply as the cost of purchased gas soared 105 percent, reflecting an increase in prices for gas from Central Asia.
"The Increase in the cost of purchased gas was mainly caused by the increase in prices for gas from Central Asia and increase in gas trading activities on the European market," it explained.