He emphasized that Rio was unable to go into detail on the allegations. "I am naturally personally concerned about them, but I want to stress that we will respect the Chinese legal process," du Plessis said in London. Relations between Rio Tinto and the Chinese government have been strained since the arrest of four Rio Tinto employees on July5, including Rio chief of the Shanghai office Stern Hu.
The People's Bank of China has increased the reserve requirement for six times this year, and the latest was the third in five weeks. Ministry spokesman Yao Jian said the government will make intensive efforts to track speculative money and stop it flowing into sensitive industries such as property and the financial markets.
Monetary growth has been slowing since hitting a record 29.6 percent in November. "The slowdown in monetary growth was sharper than expected, consistent with weaker-than-expected growth in other July data," said Nikhilesh Bhattacharyya,
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FIRST-QUARTER net income at Barclays PLC rose 12 percent from a year ago as investment banking profit surged from the acquisition of United States assets of bankrupt Lehman Brothers, though the bank posted a steep 79-percent jump in writeoffs on bad investments due to the financial crisis. First-quarter profit came in at 826 million pounds (US$1.25 billion) compared to 736 million pounds in the first three months of 2008. Revenue surged 42 percent to 8.15 billion pounds. "Overall, we haven't seen much to change our view that the strong first-quarter trading performance will prove unsustainable, leaving Barclays and the rest of the banks vulnerable to further rises in impairments," said Sandy Chen,
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