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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10916

7 September 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) g20
BRICS promise $100 billion to stabilise exchange markets

Saint-Petersburg, 06/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - Given their concern about the volatility of the exchange markets, the so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) made a decision on Thursday 5 December to set up a $100 billion fund to shore up the currencies of some of their members.

Chinese Deputy Minister for Finance Zhu Guangyao, declared that “the reserve amount available will be $100 billion and China will assume the lion's share of it”. According to a...

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