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Archive for April, 2010

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS), the British government’s big banks, is known to cut 2600 workers at the consumer bank and insurance divisions. Creditors are likely to eliminate about 2,000 employees at the insurance division of insurance products including Direct Line and Churchill.

The 600 workers will also be eliminated derived from consumer bank division, headquartered in the UK as a source disclosed yesterday by Bloomberg. Bloomberg noted RBS has cut about 26,000 workers or 12% of all staff throughout 2008 until last week.

Bank policy to some extent influenced by the European Union in terms of selling its insurance unit more than 300 bank branches as a consequence of government assistance.

“This is a deep disappointment to see more unemployment continuing at this time. We currently anticipate that the unemployment total reached 500 people printed in Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, “said Scotland Finance Secretaries John Swinney in a statement earlier this week.

RBS share price which is the recipient company bailouts (bailout) the world’s largest rose 14% to 51.75 pence (decimal unit of currency of pounds). The raised push the RBS market value to 30 billion pounds. Its shares climbed 77% this year. RBS is the only UK bank that does not print the net income in the first quarter of this year.

This company is actually loss of 28 billion pounds in the last two years after the acquisition of ABN Amro Holding NV. As for RBS insurance unit also printed 50 million pounds of losses of 76 million pounds profit in the beginning of the year as quarterly reports on last week.

Pressure on China’s central bank to raise interest rates and the Yuan exchange rate rose after the inflation rate rises, loan disbursements exceeded estimates, and the country’s property prices soared in April 2010.

China’s central bank today reported the value of Yuan is not traded up 0.2%. This indicates the government will change the standard range of Yuan against U.S. dollar and let the local currency increased by 2.4% next year.

Sheng Laiyun, China Statistics Bureau spokesman said April inflation is strong enough, is not affected by the price abroad. However, a majority-based food and housing prices in the country, as well as the influence of liquidity costs and commodity prices.

Sheng add credit crisis in Europe the possibility of expanding in the region even though the government has launched a rescue plan, the financial system earlier this week. EU policies will affect export demand.

China’s government tries to manage inflation during the year amounted to 3% and prevent the bigger asset value. This is because the efforts to generate economic growth turns out to direct credit to a record high in history.

China’s statistics bureau report consumer price index rose 2.8% during April compared to the same period the previous year, or the fastest pace since the last 18 months, while property values rose 12.8%.