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Stocks Mergers & Acquisitions Bonds Private Capital "Between the two groups there is talk about Chryslerpossibly using Fiat technology in exchange for a stake," thesource told Reuters, confirming a report by industry publicationAutomotive News Europe.The source spoke on condition of anonymity.(Reporting by Gianni Montani; writing by Gilles Castonguay) Stocks Mergers & Acquisitions Bonds Private Capital. By Anna Willard and Huw Jones Currencies Bonds BRUSSELS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministersvoiced fears about running up debts when they met on Monday todiscuss the costly government response to recession and theprospect that unemployment will rise 25 percent or more by 2010. As they met, Britain, which remains outside a currency clubnow shared by 16 neighbours, announced further plans to help acrisis-hit bank sector by offering, among other things,insurance against losses on rotten assets. No such plans have been hatched by any countries in the eurocurrency zone. Neither Germany nor France seemed from initialreactions to be in a rush to replicate London's move, the secondin three months to deal with a global financial crisis qualifiedwidely as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. "This biggest worldwide economic crisis arose by gettinginto debt," Josef Proell, Austria's new finance minister, said.

"You can't fight a debt crisis by getting into more debt.That's why we need to proceed very carefully. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck reiterated Berlin'sattachment to respecting European deficit control rules as muchas possible. The ministers, to be joined on Tuesday by their colleaguesfrom the European Union countries not using the euro, met hoursafter the European Commission forecast the euro zone's firstfull recession this year since its establishment 10 years ago. Germany, after initial hesitation, has announced additionalgovernment plans to spend 50 billion euros ($65.7 billion) thisyear and next in an attempt to boost demand and limit recession.France has unveiled plans for 26 billion euros in stimulus. The European Commission, the European Union's executive arm,is urging the 27-nation EU as a whole to come up with a total of200 billion euros, or 1.5 percent of gross domestic product.

DIRE PREDICTIONS In updated economic forecasts published on Monday, theCommission said it expected gross domestic product in the eurozone to fall 1.9 percent in 2009, and grow by only 0.4 percentin 2010, after an expansion of 0.9 percent for 2008. It forecast that 11 euro zone countries would be inrecession in 2009, against two in 2008. The Commission, which said the economies of Italy and Spainwere expected to shrink 2 percent, Belgium 1.9 percent andFrance 1.8 percent, also predicted a surge in euro zoneunemployment, to a rate of 10.2 percent in 2010. That is equivalent to 15.9 million jobless and a rise of 3.7million from the 12.2 million unemployed in November, the latestmonth for which official data are available and when the joblessrate stood at 7.8 percent.

In Britain, which pumped 37 billion pounds ($53.6 billion)of public money into the banks in October, the governmentannounced new steps on Monday and said it would now allow banksto insure themselves against losses on their riskiest assets. In Germany, Finance Ministry spokesman Torsten Albig saidthe government planned no further assistance for the financialsector "There are no plans at the moment," he said. "But I thinkthat considering the measures that could be done, we're aheadwith what has been implemented in Germany." And French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, interviewedby Reuters on her way to the meeting in Brussels, said: "French banks are not at all in the same situation as theBritish banks, thank goodness." (Writing by Brian Love, with additional reporting by Marcin Grajewski, Francesca Landini, Ilona Wissenbach, Julien Toyer, Jan Strupczewski and Dave Graham; editing by DaleHudson) Currencies Bonds. CONCORD, CA, Jan 19 (MARKET WIRE) Paradigm Management Services, the nation's leading provider ofcatastrophic and complex medical management services, today announcedthat Carol A.