The hit would come after a decade, because the Bank's soft loans have a ten-year grace period.
Further, the administration wants any increase in American contributions to the Bank's soft-loan arm to depend on measurable evidence of success.
Weak bank lending has resulted in soft deposit growth, which in turn reduced reserve requirement needs and helped market liquidity conditions.
Analysts also said gold is underpinned by ongoing European debt issues, a continuation of central-bank buying after Bank of Korea purchases, plus still-soft U.S. economic data that means continued loose monetary policy and perhaps even more stimulus.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is also against going soft on budget deficits: earlier this month, the ECB's president, Wim Duisenberg, criticised the euro's member governments for doing too little to cut their deficits, in particular by failing to pass structural economic reforms.
At the same time, the Central Bank has taken advantage of the economy's soft patch to cut its benchmark interest rate, from 12.5% in August to 11%.
This season young men carry their effects in soft pale leather bags, in imitation of the agents for the Fugger bank, who travel all over Europe and set the fashion.
Soft housing demand will help frame Tuesday's meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy-making board, with some in the market saying the chance of a cut in the 4.25% cash rate is evenly balanced.
The World Bank said the challenge in the short term was to sustain growth through a soft landing, with the longer-term challenge to steer the economy toward a more sustainable path.
The bank may yet be vindicated by outside events and turn out to have provided Brazil with a soft landing.
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