Friday, September 7, 2012

Markets Continue Rally on Draghi Bond Purchase Plan


The European Central Bank unveiled a bond-buying plan to stem the region’s debt crisis, spurring a rally in global stocks.

Canadian Dollar, Chile Peso, Jobs Impact on Dollar


Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sara Eisen reports on today's top currencies headline news. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Lunch Money."

Single Best Chart: 27% Full-Time Employed Globally


Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Sara Eisen displays the level of global GDP vs. payroll to population, showing that only 27 percent of all adults globally are employed full-time. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."

The Pacific Island Forum 2012



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The Pacific Forum held in Rarotonga, has attracted a lot of international attention mainly because the focus has been on the visit of U S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Among topics discussed were aid, drug running, regional security and the on-going relationship between the U S and the Pacific.

FRANCE 24 Reporters: 09/06/2012 REPORTERS



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3XSQ: August jobs growth disappoints; unemployment falls (4:54)



Sep 7 - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Fed to take action next week and dealing a blow to President Obama as he seeks reelection in November.

Airbus's new way to travel (1:40)



Sep.06 - Passenger aircraft flying in formation like birds are likely to be a feature of aviation in the second half of this century, according to plans revealed by aviation giant Airbus. Edward Baran reports.

ECB unlimited bond-buying plan to 'save the euro'



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http://www.euronews.com/ The European Central Bank is to buy the government bonds of struggling eurozone countries' like Spain and Italy to lower their borrowing costs, but there will be strict conditions attached.

Seeking to back up his July pledge to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro, ECB President Mario Draghi said the new plan, aimed at the secondary market, would address bond market distortions and "unfounded" fears of investors about the survival of the euro.

The ECB chief stressed they would only help countries that signed up to and implemented strict policy conditions, with the eurozone's rescue fund also buying their bonds, and preferably with the IMF involved in designing and monitoring the conditions.

Draghi said they have to repair Europe's broken borrowing system: "The European monetary area now is fragmented... the actions we have decided today are geared to repairing monetary policy transmission channels... a way of saying it is that these decisions are necessary to restore our capacity to pursue the objective of price stability in the euro area, they are necessary to restore the singleness of monetary policy in the euro area."

The new programme will focus on bonds maturing within three years. Potentially there are no limits on it, but Draghi insisted it does not break ECB rules.

The Germans are not so sure. Jens Weidmann of the Bundesbank did not support the plan.

The Bundesbank chief had expressed concern that intervening in the bond market would break the ECB ban on financing euro zone member states. Other ECB policymakers saw a greater urgency to help Spain and Italy and prevent the euro zone crisis from deepening.

The ECB also said it believes the eurozone economy will probably contract more than previously expected this year.

It raised its outlook for inflation for this year and next and kept interest rates on hold, leaving its main rate unchanged at 0.75 percent.

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'West climbs debt mountain, vital Russia looks East'



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With the global economy struggling for growth, RT talks to Andrey Kostin, President of Russia's second largest bank VTB, about what he sees ahead for global finances.

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Bilateral quarrels threaten APEC ambition



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After more than 20-years of APEC, building prosperity and liberalising trade remains the primary goal. But while member states are keen to do business in Vladivostok, the region's thorny security disputes threaten to derail the agenda.

Thom Cookes reports.