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When she makes her decision, she will either allow the trial to proceed as prosecutors requested, or she could ask for research into the charges, or she could decide that her court does not have jurisdiction.Berlusconi has faced at least 17 official criminal and civil allegations since he first burst onto the Italian political scene in 1994, but these charges could cause serious problems both because pollsters say the accusations are resonating with a weary Italian public and because the case appears to be constructed to make a conviction more likely.The investigation got underway in December on allegations that the 74-year-old Berlusconi paid for sex with a Moroccan-born cabaret dancer named Karima el Mahrough, best known by her stage name "Ruby." She was 17 at the time.Prosecutors also charge that Berlusconi tried to use his influence to have el Mahrough released from prison, where she was being held on charges of theft.Berlusconi reportedly lied to police to claim that el Mahrough was the niece of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and that they should release her in order to avoid a diplomatic crisis.The United States and China should address their currency issue "cooperatively," says the director of the US National Economic Council.A sharp adjustment of the exchange rate will not serve China or the United States but tensions between the two countries would accumulate if the mark remains unchanged, Lawrence Summers said Sunday at the Harvard-China Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Conference."It will be the task of our governments to navigate in this turbulent water," said Summers, who is also a former president of Harvard University.Summers said he was encouraged by the recent appreciation of the Chinese yuan and expected the trend to continue in the near future.

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McDonald's Corp, the world's largest restaurant company, may raise prices at its China outlets in the second half of the year, said Tim Fenton, president for Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Prices may be raised "towards the third or fourth quarter", Fenton said in an interview on Monday. "As a rule, we look at raising prices anywhere from 50 percent to 60 percent" of the inflation rate.China's inflation in January may be 4.9 percent, "lower than the market consensus", according to Li Jun, a strategist at Central China Securities Co in Shanghai. McDonald's, which trails Yum! Brands in the number of stores in China, raised the prices of its burgers, drinks and snacks in November."Our price increase will be modest. It will be lower than the inflationary index to maintain our competitive edge there in China," said Fenton, who opened a record 165 stores in the world's most-populous nation in 2010 and plans 175 to 200 new outlets this year. "We're able to leverage our suppliers."China's statistics bureau, which is due to release January economic data on Tuesday, declined to comment on the inflation rate when called.Inflation in China this year may be 4.55 percent, according to the median forecast of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.McDonald's rose 0.5 percent to $76.14 at the 4 pm close of trading in New York on Feb 11. The stock has gained 20 percent in the past year, lagging behind the Standard & Poor's 500 Index's 24 percent increase.There are about 1,300 McDonald's restaurants in China, and the company aims to have at least 2,000 by 2013. "We have over 50 percent of new restaurant development" for McDonald's, Fenton said, referring to Asia, the Middle East and Africa.McDonald's won't accelerate the introduction of menu items catering for local tastes in China, Fenton said. "We do have various chicken products that you really won't find in other parts of the world but the 80-20 rule still applies: 80 percent of our revenue comes from 20 percent of our products."Chinese banking authorities have started a pilot program at China Merchants Bank (CMB) to liberalize its deposit rates as the nation accelerates its step to float interest rates, a source familiar with the matter told China Daily.CMB is the only major commercial bank chosen for the trial, among a few small-scale city commercial banks, largely because it has sound innovation abilities to counter risks, as the reform would see deposit rates increase and the net interest margin shrink, said the source, who did not wish to be identified owing to the sensitivity of the matter.The pilot program began two months ago, the source said.Mainly targeting insurance companies and big companies that usually have fixed large deposits in banks, the central bank is working on a price-bidding system for deposits with a maturity of no more than five years among pilot banks before extending it to other financial institutions that would be allowed to set interest rates freely in accordance with the market situation."Among deposit rates, those for corporate agreement deposits (contracted savings between banks and their clients) with maturity of more than five years are already liberalized. The system is aiming to open up pricing limits for the short- and medium-term deposits," said the source.China will liberalize market-oriented interest rates by allowing qualified financial institutions to price their products in the next five years, and set up a mature mechanism to guarantee a concerted application of the central bank's monetary stance, said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, at a forum in December."During the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), we expect to see significant progress in interest-rate liberalization," he said, adding that most lending rates in the country have already been liberalized but limits on deposit rates need to be further freed.Wu Zhengzhang, chief representative of Shenzhen Development Bank, Beijing Branch, said the central bank is always cautious about any new move, and the pilot program should be conducted within the scope of small banks that have fewer clients and would see limited repercussions if problems were to occur.