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April 14, 2008 -- 7:32 a.m. EDT
Dearth of Direction
At a Time of CrisisBy JOSEPH SCHUMAN
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
The weekend Group of Seven gathering in Washington demonstrated how little stewardship the world's richest countries are exerting at this time of global economic tumult.
There was much for finance ministers and counterparts at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to discuss, but the most dominant theme seemed to be inflated food prices world-wide -- one of the most tangible concerns for voters in Europe and the U.S., and an existential threat to many others in poorer countries. The World Bank estimates that global food prices have risen 83%, a phenomenon that could be seen in the commodity-market surges that have captured headlines since last summer and the social unrest it has provoked from Thailand to Egypt and on through Africa. With farm costs on the rise from New Zealand to the American Midwest, there seems little chance food prices will diminish any time soon, The Wall Street Journal notes.
China's Education Ministry today said that despite the raft of price controls imposed there, the government plans to boost subsidies for students to help ease the pain of costlier food. Rioting fueled by the soaring price of rice, beans and other staples in Haiti led to the ousting of the countries prime minister on Saturday, and inflation looks set to be a key issue in India's upcoming elections, as the Journal reports. The high cost of food, coupled with rising energy prices, is having an exaggerated effect on inflation in the likes of Romania, Turkey and other countries on the eastern and southern fringes of Europe, thanks in part to their higher reliance on debt, the Journal notes. But it's hitting closer to home for G-7 and fellow industrialized countries, too. A Financial Times/Harris poll taken in France, Germany, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. indicated rising food and energy prices are the biggest economic concern. But it certainly isn't the only one.
The G-7 issued its most explicit if still decisively vague comments about the "sharp movements in major currencies" and the possible resonance the dollar's as yet unbridled tumble could have on economic and financial stability, as the FT reports. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, chose this weekend to accuse the U.S. and other rich countries of failing to set a clear example on the reduction of the carbon emissions credited to contributing to global warming, and blamed this for China and India's unwillingness to sign on to a climate-change pact that would succeed the Kyoto protocol, as the Guardian reports. In the past month, concerns about the effectiveness of European carbon-cutting plans have raised questions about whether European Union members will have to switch to more economically painful climate policies.
And G-7 ministers undoubtedly spent much of their albeit scripted time dealing with the credit crunch and economic growth worries -- amid a reminder from the General Electric quarterly results released Friday that trouble has spread through the U.S. economy, as the Journal notes. While the FT/Harris poll suggested relatively small levels of Italians and the Spanish are among the first in Europe starting to perceive pain from the credit crunch, business leaders on the Continent tell the FT they expect the real contagion to hit half a year down the road. "I don't see any impact at the moment. But I have no doubt it is coming, probably in six to 12 months' time," Peter Loscher, chief executive of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, tells the FT. "It has to affect the real economy -- the credit crunch, exchange rates, raw materials increases and wage demands." Echoing a growing number of private-sector economists and such eminent investors as George Soros, the Japanese newspaper Nikkei notes G-7 was confronting what some consider "the worst financial storm since the end of World War II."
The fragility of governments charged with straightening out the world economy could be seen in how tough a time Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda recently had in pushing a new Bank of Japan chief through the country's divided Parliament. There isn't much strength elsewhere atop other G-7 members. President Bush, with barely nine months left in office, is at or near record nadirs of popularity that have limited his ability to act. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who once counted his record as Chancellor of the Exchequer as his biggest political strength, lacks the confidence of 68% of Britons on the economic crisis, according to the FT poll. Less than a year after his election, French President Nicholas Sarkozy has squandered much of the voter confidence that greeted his move to the Elysee Palace. And a disaffected Italian populace is going to the polls in lower numbers for yesterday and today's election, which is expected to see Silvio Berlusconi -- despite the taint of corruption allegations and his 71 years of age -- succeed in once again gaining control of at least the lower house of Parliament.
Against this backdrop, it isn't that surprising that the G-7 produced no more decisive a result than it has during less traumatic times. But it's easy to read the frustration of World Bank President Robert Zoellick, who might have been speaking for millions of others when he addressed the food issue ahead of the meeting: "We have to put our money where our mouth is now -- so that we can put food into hungry mouths."
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Blockbuster Wants to Buy Circuit City
Mixed marriages of media distribution and hardware have somewhat of a rocky history, but that isn't deterring Blockbuster. The movie-rental chain is going after the consumer-electronics giant Circuit City Stores, or at least it wants to. Blockbuster this morning said that in mid-February, it made a tentative offer to buy Circuit City for $6 to $8 a share, or as much as $1.35 billion, according to Bloomberg. That compares with Circuit City's closing share price on Friday of $3.90. "Unfortunately, to date, Circuit City has failed to provide due diligence necessary to allow Blockbuster to make a definitive proposal," Blockbuster said. "Blockbuster is making its proposal public because it believes the shareholders of Circuit City should have the opportunity to participate in determining the destiny of the company."* * *
NYSE Euronext Aiming to Be One-Stop Shop
Hoping to better compete for initial public offerings against the London Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext is launching a "fast path" campaign aimed at persuading Chinese, Indian and Russian companies to seek joint listings on both sides of the Atlantic, NYSE global-listings chief Catherine Kinney tells the Financial Times. "London has enjoyed a --quote -- monopoly and we intend to focus on things to our advantage," she says. NYSE Euronext is hoping to take advantage of regulators decision last December to let companies offer securities in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal without producing multiple prospectuses. And since the Dutch and the French are now willing to accept prospectuses approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Kinney says potential listing companies would need just one set of documents for both the U.S. and Europe.* * *
Deutsche Looking to Sell Private-Equity Debt
Following Citigroup's bid to dump the broad array of troubled debt weighing down its balance sheet, Deutsche Bank is trying to "sell as much as $20 billion of debt related to leveraged buyouts to a collection of investors that include private-equity firms," people familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal. But unlike Citi, "which is looking for buyers of a $12 billion package of loans and bonds, Deutsche Bank is selling off its debt in parcels," the Journal reports. Separately, Wachovia, fifth-largest U.S. bank, "which barreled into adjustable-rate mortgages with the huge acquisition of Golden West Financial near the peak of the housing market, could announce as soon as today that it is getting a capital infusion of several billion dollars from outside investors," the Journal adds, citing people familiar with the matter. In exchange for $6 billion to $7 billion in cash, the investor group would get shares in Wachovia priced at about $23 to $24 apiece, a 15% discount to Friday's closing price.* * *
Also of Note…
Los Angeles Times: Iraqi officials said they had fired about 1,300 soldiers and police officers who refused to fight Shiite Muslim militias during the recent government crackdown, desertions that raise questions about the likely performance of Iraqi forces as U.S. troop levels decrease. A high-ranking police official in the southern city of Basra said a roundup of alleged militia sympathizers had begun Saturday and that "a large number" of police officers were arrested at work and accused of membership in militias. "They were high-ranking and with different positions," said the Iraqi official.
Associated Press: Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint early today in a dangerous region of southern Afghanistan, killing 11 policemen in the latest assault against the nation's vulnerable police force. Militants killed more than 925 Afghan police last year -- more than 10% of the country's 8,000 insurgency-related deaths documented by the U.N. Separately, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said two of its soldiers were killed and two wounded in a separate explosion yesterday in southern Afghanistan.
International Herald Tribune: A top White House official implicitly criticized European leaders who might shun the opening of the Beijing Olympics over human-rights issues and the treatment of Tibetans, calling such protests a "cop-out" far less effective than the "quiet diplomacy" the U.S. is pursuing. President Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, seemed dismissive of the approach being taken -- or considered -- by some of the closest U.S. allies, including prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
Wall Street Journal: Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines may unveil their long-delayed merger announcement as early as tomorrow, people familiar with the matter said, in the latest move by airlines to grapple with high fuel prices and a softening economy. But the deal -- which could value Northwest at roughly $3 billion, reflecting the industry's worsening prospects in recent weeks -- risks a clash with the airlines' pilots, who don't have veto power but can complicate a merger.
Financial Times: The European Union has broken through in efforts to lessen its dependence on Russian natural gas with a concrete offer of extra supplies from Turkmenistan. EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the Turkmen president had last week guaranteed that 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year would be available for the EU, amid intense competition for access to Turkmenistan's huge gas reserves since the death of its isolationist former leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, last year.
Nikkei: Japan's Financial Services Agency will consider bolstering its oversight of foreign-owned financial institutions operating in Japan, in line with an agreement reached among Group of Seven financial authorities to tighten joint monitoring of banks operating internationally, agency officials said. Specifically, the FSA is expected to soon begin inspecting foreign institutions that have never been inspected before or have not been checked for a long time, and possibly the constant monitoring of the operations of major U.S. and European banks.
New York Times: Health-insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases. With the new pricing system, insurers abandoned the traditional arrangement that has patients pay a fixed amount, like $10, $20 or $30 for a prescription, no matter what the drug's actual cost, which means that the burden of expensive health care can now affect insured people, too.
Women's Wear Daily: Italian fashion group Prada has until the end of this month to decide whether to go ahead with an initial public offering on the Milan Stock Exchange in June, one of two months it has touted as possible windows for an IPO this year, but sources close to Prada believe it will "probably not" go ahead with a June placement because of the beating financial markets are currently weathering.
Variety: Sony and Screen Gems' "Prom Night" terrorized the competition at the weekend box office, grossing an estimated $22.7 million from 2,700 theaters and scoring the best debut for a horror picture so far this year despite a generally soft marketplace for the genre. More suspense than orgy of gore, the film won the B.O. crown by a wide margin on the strength of teens who took advantage of its friendly PG-13 rating.
Ad Age: As the April 22 celebration of Earth Day approaches, marketers of all stripes are bombarding consumers with green promotions and products designed to get them to buy more products -- some eco-friendly, some not so much. And while that message seems to contrast with the event's intent, the oxymoron seems to have been lost on marketers jumping on the Earth Day bandwagon in record numbers.
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Quotes of the Day
"I think he understands why some people could be offended by those words," Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania said yesterday on CNN, after presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire from fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain for telling a private fund-raiser in San Francisco that after years of broken promises to small-town Pennsylvania voters, "it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Those words have put Mr. Obama once more on the defensive, as The Wall Street Journal reports."Unfortunately, it was the Constitution law professor speaking and not the community organizer," Donna Brazile, an uncommitted Democratic superdelegate, tells the Washington Post, in arguing Mr. Obama's comments could hurt his appeal to voters in ways his campaign was set back by the incendiary sermons by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But another Democratic strategist anonymously tells the Post: "Ultimately, the case that McCain and Clinton will try to make that Obama is an elitist or out of touch has to be credible to the voter, and I don't believe it is. My sense is more people believe Obama, rather than McCain or Clinton, understand their lives and the challenges they face on a daily basis."
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MARKETS
STOCKS LAST CHANGE %CHANGE Dow Jones Industrials * 12325.42 -256.56 -2.04 S&P 500 * 1332.83 -27.72 -2.04 Nasdaq Composite * 2290.24 -61.46 -2.61 Nikkei 225 * 12917.51 -406.22 -3.05 FTSE 100 5854.00 -41.50 -0.70 Stoxx 50 3072.17 -30.12 -0.97
COMMODITIES LAST CHANGE Crude Oil 110.18 0.04
TREASURYS YIELD CHANGE 10-Year Treasury 3.4393 10/32
CURRENCIES LAST PRIOR DAY Yen (per dollar) 100.4700 100.87 Euro (in dollars) 1.5868 1.5828
Source: Reuters and Dow Jones * At close Note: Closing quotes are preliminary
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1. Wachovia to Get Cash Infusion 2. Delta Aims to Unveil Northwest Merger Pact 3. Obama Goes on Offense After Fumble 4. Opinion: Something Beautiful Has Begun 5. Food Inflation, Riots Spark Worries
PAGE ONE Articles from The Wall Street Journal
Food Inflation, Riots Spark Worries World leaders discussed global shortages of food. Policy makers at meetings of the IMF and World Bank said U.S. policies pushing corn-based ethanol and other biofuels have deepened woes, as higher commodity prices pressure some of the world's poorest nations.
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Delta Aims to Unveil Northwest Merger PactDelta and Northwest are readying a merger announcement, perhaps as early as Tuesday. Moving ahead with a deal risks a clash with the airlines' pilots. Delta and its 6,000 unionized pilots remained in talks on a post-merger contract that wouldn't cover Northwest's pilots.
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German Tots Learn to Answer Call of NatureThe birthplace of kindergarten is returning to its outdoor roots. While schools and parents elsewhere push young children to read, write and surf the Internet, some little Germans are taking a less traveled path -- deep into the woods.
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Carbon-Market Millionaires Take a HitMarc Stuart and Pedro Moura Costa have become multimillionaires in a booming new carbon market designed to fight global warming. But their empire is under attack from U.N. regulators who are now scrutinizing scores of proposed projects for their environmental gains.
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