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05/11/2007
Cautious UK Economy Will Survive World Crisis
The UK will survive the growing worldwide bank crisis as the economy is strong enough.
Chancellor Alistair Darling said it will be able to "carry us through an unparalleled period of financial uncertainty".
He spoke after the boss of the world's biggest bank, Citigroup, became the latest casualty of the credit crisis.
This immediately led to further concerns about how exposed banks were to bad debts.
However, he said it should be kept "in perspective" and that years of big profits had left UK banks with "very strong balance sheets", and he claimed the economy was still growing.
Mr Darling made the comments on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and said that he expected banks to be more "cautious" in their lending in the wake of the global credit crunch, which was sparked by huge bad debts in the US sub-prime housing market.
He claimed that it was "no bad thing" if institutions were to be less cavalier about giving out money, adding that he had already taken into account the impact of the crisis by revising down his growth forecast.
"We need to get to a far better situation where there is a great deal more transparency, more openness, so people understand the risks to which these banks have become exposed and they can avoid being so exposed in the future," he said.
(BMcC)
Chancellor Alistair Darling said it will be able to "carry us through an unparalleled period of financial uncertainty".
He spoke after the boss of the world's biggest bank, Citigroup, became the latest casualty of the credit crisis.
This immediately led to further concerns about how exposed banks were to bad debts.
However, he said it should be kept "in perspective" and that years of big profits had left UK banks with "very strong balance sheets", and he claimed the economy was still growing.
Mr Darling made the comments on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and said that he expected banks to be more "cautious" in their lending in the wake of the global credit crunch, which was sparked by huge bad debts in the US sub-prime housing market.
He claimed that it was "no bad thing" if institutions were to be less cavalier about giving out money, adding that he had already taken into account the impact of the crisis by revising down his growth forecast.
"We need to get to a far better situation where there is a great deal more transparency, more openness, so people understand the risks to which these banks have become exposed and they can avoid being so exposed in the future," he said.
(BMcC)
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