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The U.S. consumer confidence has fallen to 59.9 in August, according to the index of the University of Michigan, which is its lowest level since 1980. The decline surprised analysts, who expected it to be smaller – to 62,5. In July the same index fell to 63.7 from 71.5 in June. This indicator is more sensitive to events in financial markets other than sentiment, measured by the private Institute Conference Board. It is considered the most important barometer of economic conditions, providing mood and purchasing propensity of U.S. consumers. Consumer spending is equal to two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
The main problems that afflict Americans, are related to employment and appreciation of food and fuel, say analysts.

The German business is willing to support efforts to promote Greece’s exit. It is clear from the talks in Berlin, finance ministers of both countries Evangelos Venizelos and Wolfgang Schauble. Schauble welcomed by the Greek Parliament approved anti-crisis program of the government in Athens. The talks had been agreed that it contains saving measures should be implemented immediately in order to accelerate economic recovery of Greece. Was also noted that in addition to those measures needed to boost economic growth and in particular to support the private sector and private investment to Greece may be able to balance its budget in the near future. The Greek debt crisis was the theme of the meeting in Berlin of foreign ministers of Germany and Greece Guido Westerwelle and Stavros Lambrinidis. Speaking to journalists the first Greek diplomat said that all who now are betting on the collapse of Greece or the collapse of Europe have been completely disproved, and that they will continue to be refuted.
The Greek Foreign Minister arrives today for talks in Vienna in connection with the second bailout package that Greece expected to occur after September.

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The price of the gold is still strong and very high, which is usual for the gold. The global trends of the gold is really increasing and this can be easily seen when you see the charts for longer period, but definitely the gold is part of the forex, so this investment is part only from the reserves, but not from the partfolio of the banks and insurance companies.

The Frenchwoman Christine Lagarde today takes office managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Lagarde was elected head of the fund’s five-year term at a meeting of the Board of Governors on 28 June. Former Managing Director of IMF, her compatriot Dominique Strauss-Kahn, resigned in May amid a scandal erupted over allegations against him of attempted rape of a maid in a New York hotel. Investigation against Strauss-Kahn has not ended. The battle for the vacant post of it was fought between Lagarde, who was Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France, and the central banker of Mexico Agustin Carstens.
From the outset Lagarde has emerged as the undisputed favorite, whose candidacy was built by the EU. It was supported by many countries with developing economies, including China and Russia were. They turned the scales are finally in its favor after the U.S., a major shareholder in the IMF officially supported Lagarde.
Tomorrow is expected the new head of fund to give his first press conference after 16:30 local time.

The European Parliament is against cutting costs in the European Union budget for 2012 which announced a number of major countries in the organization, and lawmakers support proposals by the European Commission draft document, said in a statement EP. In late April the European Commission presented a draft of the total EU budget for 2012, which provides a cost increase of 4.9% over 2011 to 132.7 billion and revenue – 3.7% to 147.4 billion.
“The EP resolution warns of” horizontal “spending cuts in the budget without assessing the actual needs of the EU. It calls on the parties if they have decided to offer similar cuts in public to explain what European priorities or projects they want to postpone, “the statement said. Parliament defends the proposed increase of 4.9%, noting that it is based on a detailed and critical assessment by the Commission to the needs of the union.
The process for adopting the budget for 2011 is tightened because of disputes over the need to increase its revenues and expenses. The initial EC proposals were then rejected. A number of major economies in the EU believe that should be frozen revenues and expenses.
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Investors are increasingly seeing CFD trading and spread betting as viable alternatives to traditional ways of accessing and profiting from the the financial markets. Uppermost in forex traders minds the week beginning 13 June 2011 was the continuing saga of Greece’s debt bailout.
The latest round of discussions was precipitated by the International Monetary Fund’s refusal to release the latest loan installment of the help package without seeing fresh measures in place that would keep Greece safe from bankruptcy for the next twelve months.
This meant that the European Union, the European Central Bank and the EU’s largest economies, chief among them Germany, had to agree to a new solution to secure Greece’s medium-term financial stability. A solution that would have to contain another sizeable amount of euros, thought to be between €60 and €100 billion.
With German Chancellor Merkel under enormous pressure from an increasingly anti-eurozone electorate, Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble both made passionate pleas to the German parliament and public in defence of the euro and need to secure Greece’s future within it.
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As part of the reason for the delay in the U.S. economy Barack Obama pointed out problems in Japan and Europe. Published on Friday data reveal that for the past eight months in May, U.S. employers have recruited at least new employees, and unemployment has risen to 9.1 percent from 9.0 percent in April. The economic data are political challenge for President whose re-election in 2012 will depend on its ability to convince voters that the economic policies of his administration have been successful. Part of the President’s election strategy will involve a shift of voters to external factors for domestic economic problems. In his address Saturday, Obama has done exactly that, warning of cross winds, harm the U.S. economy.
“Although in the past 15 months our economy has created more than 2 million jobs in the private sector continues to grow, we are now facing strong opposition winds”, he says.
These are high gas prices, the earthquake in Japan and concerns about the fiscal situation in Europe. From time to time on the road to recovery will encounter similar shocks.
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Russia will invest over 285 billion dollars over the next decade to accelerate the pace of road construction, said today the country’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Thus, it addresses one of the most sensitive issues for the Russians. Putin, who has hinted that it may participate in the presidential elections in March 2012, seek to meet the demands of car owners. Studies show that Russians are increasingly concerned about the quality of the roads after the number of vehicles in the country doubled to 40 million over the past decade and is expected to reach 60 million by 2020. The World Bank stated that the road infrastructure in Russia is considered a major obstacle to economic growth, with only one third of the roads in the country meet the quality standards.
“The state of our roads is a real problem that limits business activity, investment and development of Russian territory,” Putin said at a meeting of local authorities in the city of Tver, 220 km from Moscow.
“Our financial resources allow us to double the volume of road construction over the next ten years,” said Putin.
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Sounds strange to suggest that the U.S. stands a risk of bankruptcy. This is considered a great scenario for the country, which rarely had the opportunity to be credited so cheap that issue debt in their own currency and which clearly showed that it can printed as much money as it needs to cover its interest obligations. In recent days however, more and more traders come to the conclusion that America may have violated its own constitutional rule for taking on new debt and to experience problems. According to data from Markit price swaps to prevent bankruptcy of the United States for a period of one year has almost tripled in just six days. The data that might be quite biased, show that the bankrupt U.S. is now more probable than that of Indonesia and Slovenia. For these developments on the market of swaps bankruptcy protection, it was because of lack of commitment and flexibility in making important decisions by Congress. Complication is facilitated by congressmen like John Bonar, according to which is better U.S. to declare bankruptcy rather than raise the limit of indebtedness not deal with deficit. The traders believed that a traditional political approach, but only until the opinion of Bonar was not supported by Stanley Drukhaymer – distinguished former hedge fund manager.
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