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Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama trong cuộc họp báo tại Nhà Trắng, Washington về vấn đề thuế, ngày 20/12/2011.
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The ECB's 3-year funding operation
The ECB, eternal and infinite
Dec 21st 2011, 18:43 by G.I. | WASHINGTON
THE European Central Bank has come under criticism for its failure to act as lender of last resort to embattled sovereigns. Yet when it comes to banks, the traditional recipients of central bank support, the ECB is lender of last resort on steroids. Today, it lent €489 billion to 523 banks at 1%, at its first three-year refinancing operation. It was its largest refinancing ever.
Political deadlocks add to downward risk to world economy: UN economist
| English.news.cn 2011-12-21 13:10:35 |        |
by Niu Hairong
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- While the world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn, political deadlocks in some developed countries add to the risk of a double-dip recession, according to a senior UN economist.
Hong Pingfan, chief of Global Economic Monitoring in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) at the United Nations, has said in an recent exclusive interview with Xinhua that failure of policymakers, especially those in Europe and the United States, to address the job crisis and prevent sovereign debt distress and financial sector fragility from escalating, posed the most acute risk for the global economy in 2012.
Fitch downgrades Italy's biggest bank: report
| English.news.cn 2011-12-21 06:03:19 | |
LONDON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded its rating on Italy's biggest bank UniCredit SpA, with the latter's long-term issuer default rating (IDR) cut from "A" to "A-," and short-term IDR from "F1" to "F2," according to media reports reaching here on Tuesday.
Fitch also put the ratings on "watch negative," meaning it may further downgrade them in the near future, Reuters reported.
Britain's AAA rating at risk: Moody's
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Britain's AAA sovereign debt rating could be at risk under threat from the eurozone debt crisis, ratings agency Moody's warned on Tuesday.
The agency's end-of-year assessment said Britain's AAA rating was currently still safe but there were "formidable and rising challenges" ahead.
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