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Recession altering habits in the food and drugs that they buy

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart’s chief executive said on Sunday he sees changes in the habits of the chain’s customers as they contend with the recession, and also said Wal-Mart had offered to help the incoming Obama administration with health care and environmental issues.

“The number one issue today is (consumers’) concern about their job,” Lee Scott said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“In our pharmacy group, we have increases in prescription drugs, but not at the same rate it was,” he said. “What we’re seeing is an increase in self-treatment.”

Strained consumers are also changing the food they buy at Wal-Mart, Scott said. “We’re seeing an increase in food storage as people are cooking more at home,” he said. They are “using leftovers more extensively,” and buying more frozen food.

Small businesses are also changing how they buy goods, he said. Cash-strapped restaurant owners are visiting the stores more frequently to buy supplies as one day’s cash flow allows them to buy supplies for the following day.

Scott, who will retire in early 2009, also said he sees a role for Wal-Mart in the debate around issues such as the environment and health care, which he has previously said “profoundly” affect the chain’s shoppers and business.

Wal-Mart has “reached out” to President-elect Obama’s team to work on the U.S. health care and energy issues, he said, adding that people critical of Wal-Mart’s involvement in political debates were “on the wrong track.”

“These are not times to be self-serving,” he said. “We have a responsibility to participate.”

Bankruptcy is a good thing for Detroit–and other myths worth debunking.

I’ve never seen such misinformation floating around about the auto industry, whether it’s from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the left or his colleague David Brooks on the right. They think Detroit should die. At least the Republican senators from Alabama and Kentucky have a reason for wanting to ruin Detroit. They don’t tell you, but their states have plants owned by Honda, Mercedes and Hyundai (Alabama) and Toyota(Kentucky). If General Motors goes down, the Midwest may sink into rubble, but Alabama and Kentucky will boom.

There’s a plus side to bankruptcy. Wrong. There’s no plus side. Name any existing auto company that has survived bankruptcy. Few people would be idiotic enough to buy a car from a bankrupt company. Trade-in value disappears. Warranties are worthless. Repair parts vanish. GM goes bankrupt on Monday and on Tuesday the only customers are vultures looking for giveaway deals. In fact, sales are probably collapsing now because of all the bankruptcy talk.

The government can appoint learned bureaucrats to run GM right. Have you ever heard of a successful government-run auto company? Sure, they work if all other cars are banned and they torture anyone who criticizes the design. I’ve seen some: the Trabi, built by East Germany, or the cars of the nationalized British auto industry until that industry died, or those Renaults when the French government ruled. Let’s not even mention the Soviet cars.

Britain’s leading share index ended up 1.5 percent on Friday, marking its biggest weekly rise after recent heavy losses as gains in drugmakers and banks outweighed weakness in miners.

The FTSE 100 .FTSE was up 61.91 points at 4,288.01 in a choppy session despite falling as much as 0.8 percent during the session.

 The UK benchamrk gained 13.4 percent over the week but is still down 33 percent for the year on fears of a severe global recession.

Pharmaceuticals were the best-performing sector after the publication of a long-anticipated EU report on generic competition. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said preliminary results of a year-long probe showed competition in the pharmaceuticals industry did not work as well as it should.

Economic data has been universally gloomy but I suppose the optimists would say the fact that we have fallen on a day in which we have negative news in the real economy suggests that we are close to the bottom,” said Jeremy Batstone-Carr, head of private client research at Charles Stanley.

British retail sales plunged in November at their joint-fastest pace since records began 25 years ago while a growing number of Britons predicted prices would fall, not rise, next year. 

Eeuro zone inflation plunged in November and unemployment jumped more than expected.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Tuesday and so-called safe haven assets such as bonds fell after the U.S. government rescued banking giant Citigroup to prevent further damage to the ailing global financial system.

The yen recovered from sharp falls a day earlier and gained against major currencies, but some traders said the Japanese currency could stall in the near term if investors continued to return to battered equity markets and other riskier assets.

 Oil prices retreated below $54 after surging more than 9 percent in the previous session, a rally that was big enough to send regional commodity-related stocks such as BHP Billiton sharply higher. But shares gave up some of their early gains as plenty of near-term risks remained, including whether other global lenders are in need of rescue, the fate of U.S. auto makers and indicators that continue to signal a rough road ahead for the global economy. 

“It will take a long time to bring the financial system back to health, as it happened in Japan, and it’s hard to believe market sentiment will turn around quickly,” said Hideki Amikura, deputy general manager of the forex section at Nomura Trust Bank. Japan suffered a “lost decade” in the 1990s after a real estate bubble burst, sparking a banking crisis and economic stagnation marked by deflation. 

The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific stocks excluding Japan rose 2.9 percent as of 0400 GMT (11 p.m. on Monday night), heading toward a third consecutive daily gain, but off earlier gains of as much as 4.3 percent. Japan’s Nikkei average jumped nearly 3 percent, resuming trade after a public holiday on Monday. 

The broader market rally comes after an initially tepid Asian reaction to the U.S. plan, announced early on Monday Asian time, to shoulder most potential losses on about $306 billion of Citigroup’s risky assets and inject capital into the struggling lender.

 But a subsequent Wall Street rally, which capped the best two-day run since the aftermath of the 1987 stock market crash, put some of those doubts to rest, sparking optimism the U.S. government could similarly step in to support other big banks. The rally in global markets was also helped after U.S. President-elect Barack Obama promised to jolt the faltering U.S. economy with a stimulus package, raising the outlook for beleaguered exporters worldwide who depend heavily on U.S. consumer demand. 

Shares in Australia and Hong Kong rallied more than 3 percent each, while markets in Taiwan and Singapore rose over 2 percent. South Korea’s KOSPI index was up about 2 percent, with Shanghai’s index up only 0.1 percent. 

Gains in Asia were led in part by banking shares such as South Korea’s KB Financial Group and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which recovered from steep falls on Monday.

Citigroup, widely seen as the sickest Wall Street bank, will make some of the most severe cuts in the history of U.S. business — 53,000 jobs — as it tries to slash costs and get back to basics before it’s too late.

The cuts, which will leave Citi about 20 percent smaller, are the latest step in a stunning remaking of the American banking landscape since the financial meltdown, an upheaval that has included the demise of storied investment houses and the conversion of others into commercial banks.

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit met with employees Monday and laid out the bank’s strategy in stark terms: “We are a bank. What does a bank do? A bank takes deposits and puts them to work by investing and making loans.”

Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which has tracked downsizing since 1993, said Citi’s cuts are the second-most on record. IBM announced in July it was cutting 60,000.

At its peak in 2007, Citi had 375,000 employees.

About half the cuts are expected to come from selling off parts of the business. The bank has already said it would sell Citi Global Services and its German retail banking businesses, and it plans to unload more, a spokesman said. The rest of the cuts are expected to come from layoffs and attrition.

Citigroup, which built up through rapid acquisitions over the past two decades, has long been criticized as too sprawling and difficult to manage.

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