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Debt-laden Nakheel takes big first half loss
Al-P, Dubai
Real estate giant Nakheel. at the centre of the Dubai debt crisis, reported a 13.4 billion dirhams (3.64 billion dollar) loss Wednesday for the first half of 2009 after a large writedown of asset values.
The developer, whose 3.5 billion dollar Islamic bond debt sparked parent Dubai World's move to ask lenders for a temporary payment suspension, said revenues had plunged 78.1 percent in the six months to June 30 to 1.97 billion dirhams (537 million dollars) from 9.0 billion dirhams (2.45 billion dollars) a year earlier.
The developer of the Gulf emirate's extravagant palm-shaped islands took 12.2 billion dirhams in "impairment losses" stemming from a writedown of land values as the property market in Dubai has plunged in the past year.
Also included are projects the company said would be delayed or scaled down.
"The management no longer considers these project costs to be fully recoverable," It said in the six month report.
Nakheel is part of the government-controlled Dubai World group, which late last month shocked global financial markets by asking for a six-month delay in repayments on Nakheel's sukuk bond which matures on December 14.
German trade surplus at 13.6b euros in October
AFP, Frankfurt
The German trade surplus, a pillar of the eurozone economy. climbed to 13.6 billion euros (20 billion dollars) in October, figures released on Wednesday by the national statistics office showed.
In September, the biggest European economy and one of the world's leading exporters had posted a surplus of 10.4 billion euros.
German exports gained 2.5 percent from September to 74.6 billion euros, the Destatis service said.
Germany, one of the world's leading exporters, has begun to rebound from its worst recession since World War 11, thanks in part to renewed foreign demand for the country's industrial goods and chemicals.
Destatis also cited German central bank figures which showed the current account of the balance of payments had a surplus of 11.0 billion euros in October.
The current account is an overall measure of all current payments into and out of a country' or region.
Exports to other European Union members in October came to 46.6 billion euros, a decrease of 16.5 percent from the same month a year earlier, while imports fell by 11.9 percent to 40.6 billion euros, the data showed.
Currency change cripples N Korea markets
AFP, Seoul
Private markets on which North Koreans rely heavily for necessities have been paralysed since the communist state's shock currency revaluation last week, a report said Wednesday.
South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper quoted sources in China's border city of Dandong as saying private transactions -- which supplement the faltering state distribution system -- have come to a virtual halt.
"The road linking Pyongyang and Sinuiju has been shut down. It's been hard to get through to partners in the North by phone," a Chinese businessman told the independent daily in Dandong, across the border river from Sinuiju.
A North Korean businessman working in Dandong said those who have hoarded wealth in old money were hit hard by the decision to issue new currency.
People could change old notes for new at the rate of 100 to one, but the total which could be exchanged was strictly limited.
Ireland braces for pay cuts, tax rises in budget
AFP, Dublin
Recession-ravaged Ireland is set to unveil a four-billion-euro (5.9-billion-dollar) austerity package for its 2010 budget on Wednesday to stabilise a huge gap in public finances and reassure financial markets.
Delivering his second tough budget in a year, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will slash costs as the country struggles to get public finances back under control.
He is expected to reduce the public sector pay bill by 1.3 billion euros, cut health services, trim most welfare payouts except pensions by some 3-4 percent and even reduce his own salary by around 15 percent.
Ireland's government is already locked in a battle with the public sector over money-saving cuts.
Last week, an offer from unions representing some 250,000 public servants to take 12 days unpaid leave instead of a pay cut was rejected by Prime Minister Brian Cowen.