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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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<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>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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03euro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Europe Opens Door to Easing in Rates</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03euro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<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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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/world/americas/03latin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<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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