Economy

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 10:23 UTC

  HSBC shareholders support bank with 17.7 billion US dollars

  

  Britain’s HSBC bank shareholders have bought 96.6% of the new shares they were offered. Unlike many of its rivals, HSBC has not received government support, but it still needed some extra funding as a result of the credit crunch.

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 09:41 UTC

  Tokyo’s plan to ship back 400.000 “nikkeis” to South American

  

  The Japanese government is planning to combat unemployment by sending back to their countries of origin 400.000 South American immigrants of Japanese stock. The idea is to pay them a small subsidy and a one way ticket to South America, an initiative that has generated some controversy in the Japanese press.

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil prepared to support IMF with 10 billion USD

  

  Brazil is prepared to support the International Monetary Fund, IMF, with ten billion US dollars, --5% of its international reserves--, with the purpose of boosting its position in the multilateral financial organizations, --votes and veto power--, in the framework of what was decided last week at the G20 summit in London.

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 08:30 UTC

  Recession “worse than predicted” admits UK Chancellor Darling

  

  British Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted that he failed to foresee the severity of the recession and warned recovery was unlikely before the end of the year. He also warned that the deal struck by PM Gordon Brown and other world leaders at London's G20 summit last week would only be effective if countries stuck to their promises.

• Sunday, April 5th 2009 - 06:29 UTC

  Gibraltar converting from off-shore haven to regulated on shore finance centre

  

  The Gibraltar Government hopes to sign at least 12 tax agreements with countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] by November this year. Completing that number of information exchange agreements would allow Gibraltar to enter the top category of countries regarded by the OECD as those which substantially meet international tax standards, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 11:04 UTC

  Uruguay’s March inflation, 0.77% and 1.29% in first quarter

  

  Uruguay’s consumer inflation climbed 0.77% in March according to the release from the country’s Statistics Office. In the first quarter of 2009, retail prices have risen 1.29% and 7.53% in the last twelve months.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil and China discuss bilateral trade in Real and Yuan

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva said Friday that he supports alternatives to the dollar as the world's premier currency who anticipated the issue will be addressed when he visits China next month. Senior Chinese and Russian officials have talked in recent weeks about a new reserve currency to replace the dollar.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 09:43 UTC

  With tax breaks, March auto industry sales in Brazil are record

  

  Auto industry sales in Brazil soared in March as consumers flocked to dealers to benefit from government tax breaks, according to data from the national dealers’ association Fenabrave.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 05:16 UTC

  Uruguay de-listed from group of non cooperative tax havens

  

  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD) welcomed on Thursday the formal endorsement by Uruguay of its tax information exchange standards.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 14:40 UTC

  OECD forecasts two digits unemployment in several countries by 2010

  

  Economic activity is expected to plummet by an average 4.3% in the OECD area in 2009 while by the end of 2010 unemployment rates in many countries will reach double figures for the first time since the early 1990s, according to the OECD’s Economic Outlook Interim Report