{"id":9417,"date":"2012-03-29T03:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-brics-to-eye-joint-bank-stock-exchange-tie-up-at-summit\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:37:03","slug":"update-1-brics-to-eye-joint-bank-stock-exchange-tie-up-at-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-brics-to-eye-joint-bank-stock-exchange-tie-up-at-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-BRICS to eye joint bank, stock exchange tie-up at summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Frank Jack Daniel and Brian Winter<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">NEW DELHI, March 28<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The BRICS group of emerging<br \/>\nworld powerhouses &#8211; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South<br \/>\nAfrica &#8211; is set to outline plans at a summit this week for a<br \/>\njoint development bank, while the five countries&#8217; stock<br \/>\nexchanges will also move closer together.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officials say details of the initiatives still need to be<br \/>\nagreed, but they herald a new level of ambition for a bloc that<br \/>\nbrings together about half the world&#8217;s people but which has been<br \/>\ncriticised as an empty acronym.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Middle East, including oil imports from Iran, will also<br \/>\nbe discussed at Thursday&#8217;s meeting in India, officials say.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Security was tightened in the capital on Wednesday before<br \/>\nthe arrival of BRICS leaders including China&#8217;s Hu Jintao.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His visit drew protests from Tibetan activists, one of whom<br \/>\ndied earlier in the day after he set himself ablaze. Police<br \/>\narrested about a dozen Tibetans before the summit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BRICS leaders held their first summit in 2009 and have<br \/>\nsought to increase their global influence to reflect their<br \/>\ngrowing economic clout. But with radically different economies<br \/>\nand systems of government, and competing priorities, the<br \/>\ncountries from four different continents have often struggled to<br \/>\nfind common cause.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Jack Daniel and Brian Winter NEW DELHI, March 28 (Reuters) &#8211; The BRICS group of emerging world powerhouses &#8211; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa &#8211; is set to outline plans at a summit this week for a joint development bank, while the five countries&#8217; stock exchanges will also move closer together. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}