The U.S. president Barack Obama said the U.S. economy has overcome the crisis and a growing again. “We see that picked the economy from the crisis and grow again. Companies began to hire people to work, but this does not happen as fast as we want,” the president said in an interview with CBS. Labor market in the U.S. occur recovered somewhat – Unemployment fell to 9,7 percent in January from 10 percent in December. Economy has grown by 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and during the third growth was 2.2 percent. Barack Obama announced that he had invited leaders of the Republicans and the Democrats for a discussion on health reform on 25 February. The President and the democratic leaders in Congress seeking to push through healthcare reform law, once again the Republicans are able to block bills in the Senate. According to sociological polls Obama and Democrats in Congress are not demanding enough Republican support for health reform. Discussion on 25 February will be attended by leading representatives of the Republican and Democratic party of both houses of Congress – the House of Representatives and Senate. Is optimistic and the Minister of Finance Timothy Гейтнер, who in an interview with ABC News, quoted by the agency Reuters, says that currently the risk of re-recession in the U.S. is very low. However Geytnar acknowledges that recovery will be slow and uneven.
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The saga between Volkswagen and Porsche SE kinship company is about to end. The acquisition of 49.9% of the capital of the manufacturer of sports cars from Volkswagen should be finalized with the signing of the deal. This, according to Reuters agency needs to happen next week, citing information from VW. The company did not specify the exact day and time. The manufacturer of cars people buy shares of the company Porsche AG, which belongs to the holding of Porsche The car Holding SE, which is controlled by the families Porsche and I drank. VW will pay 3,9 billion euros for 49.9 percent of shares Porsche AG. Now Volkswagen is one of the most successful owners of well-marketed brands of cars with a Porsche will make a decisive step towards the top, “said Chairman of the Board of Directors of Martin Vinterkorn VW. The new group will own the rights to 10 brands, among them also VW and Porsche, are world famous Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Skoda, Seat and Lamborghini. Although not a majority shareholder, VW will expand its supplies Porsche. Currently hull of Panamera and Cayenne models are produced by Volkswagen. For years the situation has undergone radical reversal. A year and a half Porsche sought to obtain full control over Volkswagen, to have unrestricted access to key components and technologies of models for which VW is copyrighted and patent rights. Ultimately, Porsche managed to get just under half the shares in Volkswagen.
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China should take advantage of the shock waves created by the crisis in Dubai to buy gold and oil. Such is the opinion of a senior Chinese official, who cares for the supervision of some of the biggest companies in the Asian country. According to Syaonan Ji, who is chairman of the supervisory board of large companies in the committee for the supervision and administration of state assets (State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission – SASAC), purchases may be effected by means of foreign exchange reserves of China, transmit Market Watch. “Although it is unclear to what extent the crisis in Dubai will affect local and global economy, it will continue for some time and this may give China investment opportunity to use part of their reserves to buy gold and oil,” said Syaonan today. The Commission, headed Syaonan which is directly subordinate to the State Council of China and is responsible for management of state companies. Therefore, his opinion may be regarded as a signal that such intentions truly are discussed. Commentary is consistent with China’s overall strategy to increase physical stocks of key raw materials such as gold, copper and other commodities.
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Over 134 million Americans planned to enter the market or buy from the Internet during this long weekend that begins with days to Thanksgiving, which is today and will reach its peak tomorrow in the so-called Black Friday. Last Friday of November has no official status of the holiday, but many employers allow their employees to not come to work that day. Most shops open at 5 am, and some even earlier, and already have a full Christmas decorations and the doors of their rank the most eager buyers to take advantage of huge discounts. Aforementioned numbers exceed that of last year, but far less than the stated expectations before Black Friday of 2007 writes Reuters. Only a few months, the attitude of the retailers had been so optimistic. Recent studies show that though the desire to please his family led the Americans to open their wallets wider, since in recent months, residents of the United States were significantly diminished costs. More than one-third of the citizens surveyed by Deloitte said they expect to spend more money in the last days of the year, and 86% of them declare that they will raise the cost of gifts.
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Sales of existing homes in the United States reached an annual rate of 6.1 million pcs. in October, or 10.1 percent more than the pace reached in September. These forward Bloomberg, citing data from the National Association of Realtors real estate. The pace is well above expectations of analysts who forecast it to reach 5.7 million pcs., The agency adds. From there, considering that the results are largely due to a tax credit that families receive in the purchase of first homes, which amount to 8 thousand dollars. Compared with the same period last year house prices in October fell by 7.1%, the smallest drop of more years, it. Data was taken positively by the market, S & P 500 rose by 1.9% to 1111.53 points. Meanwhile it became clear that Americans will spend an average of 390 dollars on holiday gifts this year.
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MasterCard, which is the second largest global network payment (after Visa), reported higher profit than analysts’ unlikely because of the increased number of citizens using non-cash payments. The positive financial result of the Company for the period July-September was 452.2 million dollars or 3.45 dollars per share, which is quite good compared with the reported loss of 1.93.6 million for the same period of 2008. Excluding one-time costs, the profit of the company has 456 mln dollars or 3.48 dollars in market expectations of 2.93 dollars per share. Transactions processed by the company during the third quarter amounted to EUR 5.8 billion and compared with the same period last year grew by 7.6%. Revenue amounted to 1.36 billion dollars. Results announced after the company’s shares jumped 3.63 dollars or 1.7 percent to 222.65 dollars after grew by 56 percent this year.
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The Industrial company 3M Co, which produces over 55 000 different products, reported third-quarter profit that surpassed analysts’ expectations. Net profit for the third quarter of 3M is 957 million dollars or 1.35 dollars per share in earnings per share of 1.41 dollars for the same period last year. If you exclude certain one-off effects, profit of the company is 1.37 dollars per share, the average Wall Street expectations were for earnings of 1.17 dollars per share. 3M sales fell by 5.6 percent annually to 6.2 billion dollars. Since the beginning of the conglomerate in 2008 was shortened 5 800 jobs in order to optimize the cost. 3M’s shares started today’s session of the New York Stock Exchange to rise from 38 cents to 76.33 dollars. Since the beginning of the year they rose by 33 per cent. While 3M raise profit forecasts for the entire 2009 years of 4,5-4,55 dollars per share. The company’s previous forecast was for profit of 4,1-4,3 dollars per share.
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The main stock indexes in the United States fell in early on the last trading session this week, after the financial results of General Electric and Bank of America disappoint investors, and the index of consumer confidence in the University of Michigan unexpectedly decreased. As a result, Dow Jones IA away from the one-year peak, which subdued during yesterday’s session. Two hours after the start of trading the index of the 30 largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange decreased by nearly 1 percent to 9962.9 points. The wider S & P 500 retreated further to 1.1 percent to 1084.2 points while the index of companies by the exchange Nasdaq – Nasdaq Composite, lost 1.3 percent to 2145.5 points. Financial and technology companies are ranked among the top companies in the losers of the session. The loss of the largest in size of its assets to U.S. Bank Bank of America for the third quarter was greater than expected. Investors ignored the good financial results on Google and IBM, and the rise of industrial production by 0.7 percent in September.
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The largest U.S. bank Bank of America reported second loss within one year. For the period July September financial institution has a negative financial result of 1 billion dollars or 26 cents a share. The last loss was reported for the fourth quarter of 2008. The result of the previous quarter, in contrast to profit of 1.18 billion dollars for the same period of 2008, analysts expect losses to be at the rate of 12 cents per share. The quarterly report will be the last that will be the responsibility of the current CEO Kenneth Lewis, who left the institution at the end of the year because of criticism that suffered after the acquisition of Meriil Lynch. Exactly acquired at the beginning of this year, investment bank has contributed to smaller losses in this quarter because of good results from trading in shares, debt securities and currencies.
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The European stocks today reported the strongest decline in a week following the unexpected drop in investor confidence in Germany. Shares in Barclays fell by 3,4 percent after analyst Meredith Whitney lowered its assessment of Goldman Sachs Group to “neutral” and spoke favorably about the banking sector. Total banking sector represented in the index Dow Jones Stoxx 600 fell with 1,3 per cent. Dow Jones Stoxx 600 fell 1% to 241.94 points as all 19 industry groups in the pan-European index retreated. Analysts commented that, once achieved, high levels of the indexes, any disappointing economic statistics could upset the market. Investors will look for signs of recovery in sales data in corporate reports. The CEO of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann told a news conference yesterday that the global financial industry and the economy remained “fragile” because of the risk of corporate bankruptcies and rising unemployment.
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