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Credit card debt counseling is available to people under mounting debts. This helps them get a better understanding of their financial position and ways to improve it. A counseling session in this respect is extremely important and can offer a good amount of advice for those needing it. The best part about these sessions is that these are absolutely free and one need not pay anything to get counseling for debt help. These sessions are becoming very popular as there are a number of people with increasing debt.
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In its most recent monthly Credit Trend Report, Equifax noted significant improvement in various areas of consumer finance, which points to stabilization of the current economic recovery. In the latest report, which focuses on national consumer credit trends, Equifax revealed that total new credit available to consumers in March 2011 is up to $167 billion. This is a notable 15 percent increase from March 2009 but is still below pre-recession levels, Equifax said. “Despite concerns of the economy relapsing, several current metrics indicate the credit cycle is stabilizing – even growing somewhat as consumer payment behavior improves,” Michael Koukounas, Equifax’s Senior Vice President of Client Services, said in a statement. According to Equifax, bank credit card originations are up more than 35 percent year over year, which is a sign that credit card issuers are most likely vying for qualified cardholders. That me
White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of US Industrial gases company Praxair (NYSE: PX), announced Wednesday (Jul 13) it has signed a 15-year agreement to supply nitrogen and oxygen to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem (NYSE: BAK).
White Martins will build and operate a new on-site cryogenic air separation plant with a capacity of 200t per day.
The plant will supply Braskem’s expanded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) unit in the northeastern state of Alagoas.
A Praxair spokeswoman told BNamericas that the “initial stages of construction have already begun, and the plant is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2012.”
Braskem already has a PVC unit in Alagoas, and this project will almost double its annual PVC production capacity in the state, making Alagoas the largest producer of PVC in Latin America.
– Allowing the EFSF bailout mechanism to buy back bonds from the secondary market would help deal with Europe’s debt crisis, European Central Bank Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi told a Greek newspaper.
Euro zone policymakers are exploring ways to extend a rescue deal for overborrowed Greece and give it more time to repair its public finances. At the same time, authorities are trying to prevent the debt crisis from escalating in the bloc’s periphery.
One option being looked at is enabling the European Financial Stability Facility to provide funds for buying back bonds from private investors, a move that could help the country lighten its debt load.
“We have said that a useful option would be for the temporary EFSF mechanism to buy bonds in the secondary market. This option, however, is not included in the design of the EFSF. If there was a way to change this, it would be useful,” Bini Smaghi told Sunday’s To Vima newspaper in an interview.
“This would allow the private sector to sell bonds at market prices, which are currently below nominal value.