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...Tony Cervone, GM vice president of communications for North America, said GM was not going to comment on any discussion with Chrysler. "Without referencing this specific rumor, as we've often said, GM officials routinely discuss issues of mutual interest with other automakers," said Cervone. As for Cerberus, Tim Price, an executive with the company said, "I'm not going to comment on private business meetings." But Price added, "Look, everybody is talking to everybody else in the automobile industry...
What's at Stake: $325 in airline change fees and the price of a night in a hotel...
...China's export-driven economy will suffer in a global slowdown, but the country is in a better position than many to ride out the storm, argues Kroeber of Dragonomics. "Commodity price are falling, reducing the price of manufacturing. And in any case, China makes the things you buy in Wal-mart and people will keep shopping there. It's countries that produce more high-end goods that will be worse affected...
...urgency in Russia about all of this. Oil companies are posting declines in production as onshore oil and gas fields are getting depleted. Oil revenues account for 60% of Russia's budget, which has been calculated for 2009 on the basis of $70 per bbl. But if the price goes below that, the country's petroleum windfall may be drastically reduced, and the budget could go into deficit...
...Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said. "It is our duty to our descendants. We have to ensure the long-term national interests of Russia in the Arctic." Thus, the $5.4 billion - under terms more favorable than Moscow has extended to recapitalize one of its own major banks - seems a modest price to pay. Even if ordinary Russians may have to live off Icelandic herring for years as more conventional foodstuffs are already disappearing from stores...