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<title>Australia slashes interest rates</title>
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<title>Robert Peston</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK government to announce banking rescue]]></description>
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<title>Fish to finance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iceland searches for solutions after bank failures]]></description>
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<title>Secure future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[FA chairman Lord Triesman calls for financial reform]]></description>
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<title>Warning sign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A financial adviser aged 96 recalls the Wall Street Crash]]></description>
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<title>Playing it safe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How Japan sidesteps fallout from economic crisis]]></description>
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<title>Government to unveil bank rescue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UK government is poised to announce details of a comprehensive £50bn rescue package for the banking system.]]></description>
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<title>EU moves to reassure savers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[European Union finance ministers agree to increase the guarantee for customers' bank savings to at least 50,000 euros.]]></description>
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<title>BHS suffers 34% fall in profits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Retailer BHS reports a fall in both annual profits and sales as High Street conditions continue to deteriorate.]]></description>
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<title>Bank shares take a big pounding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Banking shares fall sharply in London amid news that bank bosses held funding talks with the government.]]></description>
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<title>Xstrata cancels &#xA3;5bn Lonmin bid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mining group Xstrata walks away from its £5bn bid for rival Lonmin because of the credit crisis.]]></description>
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<title>Zimbabwean bank issues new notes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Zimbabwean government issues higher denomination banknotes to tackle a shortage of cash.]]></description>
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<title>US job cuts at a five-year high</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US employers cut 159,000 jobs in September, the most in more than five years, Labor Department's figures show.]]></description>
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<title>Car firms see sales plunge in US</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US car sales fell sharply last month, the latest sign that woes in the financial sector are spreading to the wider economy.]]></description>
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<title>Watchdog backs giant mining deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BHP Billiton's proposed $114bn hostile bid for rival mining giant Rio Tinto is cleared by Australia's competition watchdog.]]></description>
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<title>Japan agrees stimulus package</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japan's cabinet agrees new funding to stimulate the economy, and Prime Minister Taro Aso also offers tax cuts.]]></description>
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<title>Falls halt Russian market trading</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russia's two leading stock exchanges are forced to close for several hours, a day after suffering huge index falls.]]></description>
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<title>Netherlands to buy Fortis assets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Netherlands takes control of the Dutch operations of ailing financial giant Fortis in a deal worth 16.8bn euros.]]></description>
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<title>Record one-day jump in oil price</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The price of oil has jumped by more than $16 to $120 a barrel in the US, the biggest one-day gain on record.]]></description>
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<title>Oil falls amid economic concerns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oil prices decline further amid concerns that a slowdown in the global economy will dent demand.]]></description>
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<title>US bans key Indian drug imports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US FDA says it has banned the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian drug firm Ranbaxy.]]></description>
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<title>Pakistan sees wider trade deficit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Export disruption causes trade gap between Pakistan and the rest of the world to widen in August.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08europe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Europe Seeks Unified Policy on Bank Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Finance ministers from the European Union gathered to seek common ground to buttress the bank system.    
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<title>Iceland Seeks Emergency Loan From Russia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In addition to seeking the $5.4 billion loan from Russia, Iceland pegged its currency to an index and took control of one of its largest banks as it struggled to keep its economy afloat.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08pounds.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Britain Considers a Plan to Help Its Banks</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08pounds.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Amid speculation that the government was preparing a plan to recapitalize Barclays, Lloyds TSB and the Royal Bank of Scotland, investors continued to punish their shares.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08yen.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Australia and Japan Make Defensive Moves</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08yen.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Australian central bank cut its key interest rate and the Bank of Japan dampened speculation of coordinated rate cuts by major economies as the global financial crisis deepened.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/08markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Markets Slide After Bernanke Remarks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dow skidded after the Federal Reserve chairman said that the outlook for economic growth had worsened.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/08ubs.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ex-UBS Counsel Settles Trading Case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The former general counsel of UBS’s investment bank will give up a $6 million bonus he received from UBS to the state of New York under the terms of the settlement in the insider-trading case.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07emerge.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Emerging Markets Find They Aren&#x2019;t Insulated From the Tumult</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07emerge.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Emerging markets took one of their biggest collective tumbles in a decade as stock markets from Mexico to Indonesia to Russia were gripped by fears of a collapse.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/07tax.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Trying to Ease Credit, I.R.S. Eases Loan Regulations</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/07tax.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service has taken steps to help ease the credit crisis by allowing corporations to ramp up their use of tax-free loans from overseas subsidiaries.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/technology/07chip.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a dramatic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce that it will become two companies.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07views.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Breakingviews.com: Iceland May Need Some Assistance</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07views.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Iceland’s banking system is in full-blown crisis.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07views2.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Breakingviews.com: Citi&#x2019;s Lawsuit Could Hurt Image</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07views2.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vikram Pandit is playing a dangerous game with Citigroup’s public image in his battle for Wachovia.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08qantas.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>30 Hurt as Australian Flight Hits Turbulence</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08qantas.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Qantas passenger jet flying from Singapore to Perth made an emergency landing at a remote Australian airport after the incident, officials said.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/business/06markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Financial Crises Spread in Europe</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/business/06markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The growing crisis has underlined the difficulty of taking concerted action in Europe because its economies are far more integrated than its governing structures.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/business/worldbusiness/06vizio.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Small Name in TVs Has Big Plans</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/business/worldbusiness/06vizio.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vizio has grabbed almost 10 percent of the United States market in part by pricing LCD TVs at less than the better-known brands.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/middleeast/05dubai.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Boomtown Feels Effects of a Global Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/middleeast/05dubai.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As recession looms in the West, cracks are appearing in the boom that has made Dubai a global byword for unfettered growth.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/worldbusiness/04vacuum.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>European Banks Expect to Benefit From the Chaos in Their Industry</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/worldbusiness/04vacuum.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Executives at Europe’s still-solvent giants see an opportunity to crack businesses long dominated by more nimble American companies brought low by the financial crisis.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/europe/04germany.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Germans Approach Bailouts With Reluctance</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/europe/04germany.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most German citizens are unhappy about the notion of paying billions for bad mortgage bets made by their financial institutions.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/04markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Bailout Bill Fails to Reassure Investors</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/04markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Wall Street finally got what it had been demanding all week, a financial rescue package, but investors had already turned their attention to other problems in the economy.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/worldbusiness/04fortis.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Netherlands Takes Over Fortis&#x2019;s Dutch Operations</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/worldbusiness/04fortis.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The deal comes less than a week after the government of the Netherlands, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, had agreed to invest 11.2 billion euros in Fortis.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/asia/04milk.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>China&#x2019;s Dairy Farmers Say They Are Victims</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/asia/04milk.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In China’s widening milk scandal, dairy farmers say that the real culprits are dairy companies and the milking stations that they operate.    
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<title>Europe Opens Door to Easing in Rates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank hinted that an interest rate cut could come as early as November, in a sharp pivot that comes as leaders grapple with a financial crisis.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03rock.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A Nationalized Northern Rock Curtails Its Products as Deposits Surge</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03rock.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The British lender, now perceived to be the safest place for savings, said that increased demand for its products had forced it to stop offering most of them to new customers.    
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<title>From Gleeful to Fearful in Latin America</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/world/americas/03latin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is a growing nervousness that once again Latin America cannot escape the globalized connections in the financial sector that run through the U.S.    
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