Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group announced Monday it will buy a stake in troubled Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley. The firm said the stake will account for 10% to 20% of Morgan Stanley's common shares.
German chancellor Angela Merkel said that the United States and British governments are partly responsible for the current international financial crisis for having supported markets' resistance to be submitted to voluntary regulations.
Economy Nobel Prize Joseph Stiglitz described as monstrous for US taxpayers the current bail out plan for the financial sector announced by Washington over the weekend.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced Monday in New York her administration was considering a proposed deal with holdout creditors who rejected the country's 2005 sovereign debt swap and have since used the courts to try to seize Argentine assets abroad.
United States is set to take unprecedented measures to tackle the crisis gripping US financial markets, announced President George Bush on Friday. But he warned the moves, which include spending of billions of dollars to buy up bad debts, would risk a significant amount of taxpayers' money.
Gordon Brown has pledged to clean up the financial system following the rescue of Britain's biggest mortgage lender HBOS by Lloyds TSB. The prime minister said he had taken quick action to maintain the stability of the financial system.
United States officials said they will hammer out a comprehensive plan to ease what has become a global financial crisis. US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said after meeting members of Congress that legislation would be required to help rid US banks of their bad assets.
Bill Gates remains the richest man in the United States with 57 billion US dollars in assets despite losing his crown to Warren Buffett for a few months earlier this year according to the latest The Forbes 400 billionaires.
Latinamerica is well positioned to face risks in the event of a global financial recession, according to the World Bank vicepresident for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Pamela Cox who this week visited Uruguay.
Spain will try to persuade jobless legal immigrants to leave by offering to pay them a lump sum and then provide unemployment benefits in their home countries plus the promise of not returning to Spain for three years, the government said on Friday.