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Letters: On defence, infrastructure, Africa, foie gras, Georgia, Ecuador, Jesus, watchmaking, Greece, Europe
Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition
Cutting defence spending
SIR – I was grateful to be mentioned inLexington’s column on defence spending (November 26th), though he misread the main argument in my book, “The Wounded Giant”. In fact, I support the idea of roughly $400 billion in defence-spending reductions over ten years. That amount was mandated back in August in the initial tranche of cuts under the Budget Control Act. What I oppose is the additional $500 billion or so in ten-year cuts required under the subsequent “sequestration” of defence spending that was mandated because of the failure in November of the so-called supercommittee.
The world this year
Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition
In a year marked by mass protests, the awakening that swept the Arab world stood out. The Arab spring was sparked by rallies in Tunisia that followed the self-immolation in late 2010 of a young market worker angered by police harassment. He died in hospital in January, prompting thousands to take to the streets in sometimes violent clashes that forced the longtime president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, to flee to Saudi Arabia.
European banks: Staggering to the rescue
Dec 17th 2011
Europe’s troubled banks and broke governments are in a dangerous embrace
IT HAD seemed a simple enough wheeze. Give banks unlimited access to 3-year funding from the European Central Bank and it wouldn’t take much more than a nudge and a wink for them to buy the bonds of Europe’s troubled peripheral countries instead of having the ECB do the job itself. For those too dull to read between the lines, Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, spelled it out: “each state can turn to its banks, which will have liquidity at their disposal.”
Lagarde: Global economy facing gloomy prospects
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BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The head of the IMF has sketched a dim outlook for the global economy, and said all countries must work together to resolve Europe's escalating debt crisis.
Christine Lagarde says Europe’s problems will not be solved by Europe alone, and needs the efforts of all countries. She says, if the issues are not dealt with decisively, the global economy could confront the same threats that pushed the world into the Great Depression of the 1930s. She also cautioned financial markets to allow time for individual nations to work through the political process to arrive at a solution.
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17/12 Moody's cuts Belgium's rating
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Belgium's credit rating was cut two notches from AA1 to AA3 by Moody's Investors Service on Friday. Moody's lowered Belgium's local- and foreign-currency government bond ratings to AA3, with a negative outlook while affirming its short-term ratings at Prime-1. |
17/12 U.S. stocks end mixed after Fitch's warning
| English.news.cn 2011-12-17 05:08:06 |
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday, with the Dow erasing early gains, after Fitch Ratings warned to downgrade six European countries.
The blue-chip Dow inched down less than 0.1 percent at the close. The broader S&P 500 gained about 0.3 percent and the tech- heavy Nasdaq jumped nearly 0.6 percent.
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17/12 Gold recovers on bargain-hunting, weaker dollar
| English.news.cn 2011-12-17 04:54:40 |
CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange staged a modest recovery on Friday, ending a four-session long losing streak, as investors digested this week's slump as an opportunity to bargain hunt. A weaker dollar also helped add to the positive tone.
The most active gold contract for Feb. delivery climbed 20.7 dollars, or 1.3 percent, to 1,597.9 dollars per ounce.
17/12 「欧州、もっと資金拠出を」 ゼーリック世銀総裁
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| 世界銀行の総裁執務室で、 インタビューに答えるゼーリック 総裁＝１５日午後５時１０分、 ランハム裕子氏撮影 |
世界銀行のロバート・ゼーリック総裁は朝日新聞の単独インタビューに応じ、欧州の政府債務（借金）危機を解決するには、欧州連合（ＥＵ）が対策を強化する必要があるとの見解を示した。財政危機の国を助ける基金などの「安全網」をさらに拡充すべきだとして、欧州各国にもっと資金を出すよう求めた。
欧州危機の解決に向けて、ゼーリック総裁は「統合された政策パッケージが必要だ」と述べ、さらなる対応が必要だと指摘した。安全網の拡充のほか、金融不安を解消し、景気の悪化や市場の混乱を食い止めるための具体的な対応なども求めた。
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