News in brief: mortgage rates, Chevron, GM / Opel, cuts Monsanto

Washington Mortgage rates inch lower After checking the price of 30 loans for a year for the second week of plans to continue after almost reached the spring. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rates this week was 5.07 percent, up from 5.08 percent a week earlier, the mortgage lender Freddie Mac said Thursday. The price, while above the historic low of 4.78 percent reached in the spring, are still at attractive terms for those who buy a home or refinance. Prices should remain for a month or two, stay low, as government efforts to their low efficiency, under Michael Larson, an interest rate and real estate analyst at Weiss Research. World Chevron in dealing with Japan, South Korea The energy giant Chevron have signed a value of 60 billion U.S. dollars to supply liquefied natural gas to Japan and South Korea, Australia \ 's prime minister said Thursday. \ 'S Australian subsidiary is close to 3 million tons a year to release the Chevron countries and generated $ 70 billion in exports over the next 25 years, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd House. Much of the gas will be developed by the still - Gorgon gas field off the coast of Australia to come to \ 'the north-west. GM finds buyer for Opel GM's European Opel unit will sell Canadian auto supplier Magna International and Russia \ 's Sberbank in a society that maintains GM \ develop the ability to bring new cars along their subsidiaries. The announcement Thursday was a politically charged for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has seen the agreement is the best opportunity to save jobs at a major employer at least three weeks before the national elections of 27 September to win . GM a 55 percent Adam Opel will see the team moved to Canada and Russia, but to retain the 35 percent instead of 10 percent of workers. Country Job cuts planned double Monsanto Monsanto, \ seed producer in the world's largest, said the work done Thursday to make deeper cuts than originally announced, it will reduce its workforce by about 8 percent to reduce costs. St. Louis company also said 2009 results will be announced at the lower end of its previous forecasts, some weaker than expected results from Roundup and other herbicides. Prices fell $ 4.18, or 5 percent to close at $ 79.30 Thursday. In June, Monsanto said it was cutting about 4 percent of its employees, or about 900 jobs. The new target of '8 per cent is the St. Louis-based cut about 1,800 jobs, company spokeswoman Kelli Powers, who said the majority of workers in the United States have already announced a loss of jobs.