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<title>U.S. Missteps Are Evident, but Europe Is Implicated</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Experts say lenders in Europe all too willingly embraced many of the riskiest practices of their American counterparts.    
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<title>Stock Slump Imperils Putin&#x2019;s Effort to Pump Up Russian Wealth, and His Legacy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/world/europe/13russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vladimir V. Putin is facing a threat to his legacy of bringing growth, stability and a renewed swagger to this nation.    
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<title>Spanish Bank Said to Be Close to Buying Sovereign Bancorp</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/13bank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Banco Santander of Spain is in advanced talks to acquire Sovereign for about $2.5 billion, people briefed on the matter said.    
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<title>Reaching for a Higher Profile, Abu Dhabi Opens a Hub for Western Media</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/media/13deal.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[CNN, The Financial Times and other media companies are setting up shop in Abu Dhabi, an island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.    
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<title>In Japan, Hope Fades for Disposable Workers</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/world/asia/12japan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Little is being built in Japan’s stagnant economy, and day laborers and part-time workers are having difficulty finding jobs.    
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<title>Australia Guarantees Bank Deposits to Combat Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-financial-australia-deposits.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Australia and New Zealand gave a blanket guarantee to all bank deposits in a move likely to raise pressure on other economies to do the same.    
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<title>A Power That May Not Stay So Super</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinreview/12leonhardt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Britain overreached imperially. The U.S. has been doing it financially.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinreview/12barry.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The World: A Specter&#x2019;s Shadow Returns to Haunt Moscow</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinreview/12barry.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years after Communists failed to reverse history, can a credit crunch succeed?    
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<title>Encounter: A Green Revolution for Africa?</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12wwln-shah-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rajiv Shah is helping the Gates Foundation donate hundreds of millions of dollars to improve agriculture on the continent. But is technological change enough?    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/11global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Rich Nations Pushing for Joint Financial Rescue</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/11global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United States and six other nations agreed to a plan to rescue the financial industry, but fell short of offering concrete steps to backstop bank lending.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11ripple.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Economic Uncertainty Spreads</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11ripple.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Around the world, fears of recession have fed a stock market panic, as worries about toxic assets spread from the financial sector to the credit markets and now to the broader economy.    
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<title>Russia to Spend Billions Buying Shares on Stock Exchanges to Bolster Confidence</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11ruble.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The move would support one of the world’s hardest-hit markets from the credit crisis, as the country suffered fresh blows from plunging commodity prices.    
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<title>Russia Approves $36 Billion Loan Plan</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11moscow.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Parliament passed a law unlocking Central Bank lending to private banks in a $36 billion bailout, continuing a strategy that has relied on making government oil profits available to banks.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Iceland&#x2019;s Banks Face Overseas Claims</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Across Europe, countries, companies and consumers are discovering exposure to the three main Icelandic banks, all of which have been taken over by the government.    
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<title>Off the Charts: The World&#x2019;s Banks Could Prove Too Big to Fail &#x2014; or to Rescue</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11charts.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the banking system quaked this week in many countries, one question was asked quietly: Can the governments afford it?    
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<title>Global Anxiety Catches Up to Japan&#x2019;s Economy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11yen.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The world’s second-largest economy, which had seemed immune from the global financial contagion, is suddenly looking a lot more vulnerable.    
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<title>Iran Vendors Protest Move to Collect a Sales Tax</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The protests, the largest since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005, occurred in several large cities.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>As Crisis Spreads, Global Approach Weighed</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. and Britain appear to be coming to a common solution a day before a meeting of financial leaders.    
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<title>Estonia&#x2019;s Let-It-Be Economy Is Rattled by Worldwide Distress</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10estonia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Estonia, the former Soviet republic that has embraced capitalism, is reluctantly turning to state intervention as it confronts an economic slowdown.    
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<title>Memo From Tokyo: Scarred by Past Woes, Japan Sees U.S. Bailout as a First Step</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/asia/10japan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Japan’s bitter memories of its banking meltdown in the 1990s made it sympathetic to Washington’s bailout efforts and reluctant to lecture America.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/10prius.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Toyota May Make Prius a Brand and Widen the Model Lineup</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/10prius.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Toyota may create a separate brand for its Prius hybrid car and could add both larger and smaller Prius models to the lineup.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09pound.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>News Analysis: Britain Takes a Different Route to Rescue Its Banks</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09pound.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Britain offered an $88 billion government lifeline for the nation’s banks Wednesday, a solution that it hailed as a quicker one to the credit crisis than the U.S. bailout plan.    
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<title>Bank Crisis Is Bypassing Central and East Europe</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09euroeast.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[While consumer spending and growth rates are declining in the Czech Republic, Poland and other Eastern European countries, analysts say these trends are not related to the banking turmoil in the rest of the world.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Inflation Rate Falls</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-INFLATIONRAT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil’s monthly inflation rate dropped in September to the lowest in a year as food prices fell for a second month.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Industrial Production Rises</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-INDUSTRIALPR_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Industrial production in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, rose the most in 15 years in August, led by demand for construction.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Merger Talks for Lenders</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-MERGERTALKSF_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Groupe Caisse d’Epargne and Groupe Banque Populaire, the French lenders that control Natixis, are in talks to merge as the global financial crisis pushes banks to combine.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Europe: Sweden: More Job Cuts at Volvo</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-MOREJOBCUTSA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Volvo has tripled the number of planned job cuts to 6,000 positions, or 25 percent of its work force, citing a “rapidly deteriorating” auto market.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: New Home Starts Increase</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-NEWHOMESTART_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Canadian new-home starts unexpectedly rose in September, the second straight monthly increase, led by new condominiums in cities.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Talks Begin on Alitalia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-TALKSBEGINON_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[CAI, the Italian investor group, is beginning talks this week to sell a stake in Alitalia to Air France-KLM Group or Deutsche Lufthansa.    
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<title>World Business Briefing | Asia: India: Tata to Buy Citigroup Operations</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09fobriefs-TATATOBUYCIT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[India’s largest outsourcing firm, Tata Consultancy Services, is buying Citigroup’s back-office operations in India for $505 million in cash, the companies said on Wednesday.    
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