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<description><![CDATA[Belize&#8217;s prime minister is attacking one of Britain&#8217;s most powerful political figuresAT THE end of August the prime minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, rushed through the nationalisation of his country&#8217;s dominant telecommunications company, Belize Telemedia. The following day a new, state-appointed board was in control of the company. There were few dissenters. Only three of the six opposition members of the 31-seat lower house of parliament voted against. Mr Barrow is no Hugo Chavez. Unlike Venezuela&#8217;s president he is a pragmatist, not an ideological firebrand. When the dust settles, he wants to see the company privatised again, but with a more diverse and mainly local shareholding. &#8220;It is plain and simple, a special measure for a special case,&#8221; he told parliament.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Macrofinance in Bangladesh: Call of the market</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The biggest IPO in the country&#8217;s history may be the start of even bigger thingsTHE word grameen means &#8220;of the village&#8221; in Bengali. But Grameenphone, Bangladesh&#8217;s biggest mobile-phone firm with over 21m subscribers, is now the toast of the town. On October 4th it opened the largest initial public offering (IPO) in Bangladesh&#8217;s history, aiming to raise 4.86 billion taka ($70m) from Bangladeshis at home and abroad. Non-residents have until October 18th to apply but the offer is already heavily oversubscribed. It has attracted over 1m applications, according to Citigroup, which arranged the offering.Grameenphone is owned by Telenor, a Norwegian telephone company, and Grameen Telecom, a non-profit company founded by Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of microfinance. His Grameen Bank gave millions of village entrepreneurs somewhere to borrow from. Grameenphone will give almost 350,000 budding Bangladeshi capitalists something to invest in. ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Mobile-phone access will soon be universal. The next task is to do the same for the internetHOW long will it be before everyone on Earth has a mobile phone? &#8220;It looks highly likely that global mobile cellular teledensity will surpass 100% within the next decade, and probably earlier,&#8221; says Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, a body set up in 1865 to regulate international telecoms. Mobile teledensity (the number of phones per 100 people) went above 100% in western Europe in 2007, and many developing countries have since followed suit. South Africa passed the 100% mark in January, and Ghana reached 98% in the same month. Kenya and Tanzania are expected to get to 100% by 2013.Even 100% teledensity does not mean that everyone has a phone, because many people have several handsets or SIMs. But nor is everyone a potential customer: the under-fives, for instance, still usually manage without. But at current rates of growth it seems likely that within five years, and certainly within ten, everyone in the world who wants a mobile phone will probably have one. 3G networks capable of broadband speeds will be widespread even in developing countries, and even faster 4G networks will be spreading rapidly in some places. Then what? ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[New uses for mobile phones could launch another wave of developmentIN A field just outside the village of Bumwambu in eastern Uganda, surrounded by banana trees and cassava, with chickens running between the mud-brick houses, Frederick Makawa is thinking about tomatoes. It is late June and the rainy season is coming to an end. Tomatoes are a valuable cash crop during the coming dry season and Mr Makawa wants to plant his seedlings as soon as possible. But Uganda&#8217;s traditional growing seasons are shifting, so he is worried about droughts or flash floods that could destroy his crop. Michael Gizamba, a local village-phone operator, offers to help using Farmer&#8217;s Friend, an agricultural-information service. He sends a text message to ask for a seasonal weather forecast for the region. Before long a reply arrives to say that normal, moderate rainfall is expected during July. Mr Makawa decides to plant his tomatoes.A few miles away in the village of Musita, Michael Malime, another village-phone operator, explains how his customers have been using the same service to get farming tips. Rice farmers who had trouble with aphids texted for advice and received a message telling them how to make a pesticide using soap and paraffin. A farmer with blighted tomato plants learned how to control the problem by spraying the plants with a milk-based mixture. ...]]></description>
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<title>Up, up and Huawei</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China has made huge strides in network equipmentIN THE 1960s, when Japan emerged as a manufacturing exporter, it soon became a byword for low cost and low quality. Much fun was made of unreliable Japanese watches and cheap Japanese cars. But quality improved and Japan became a powerful force in electronics, carmaking and other industries. Today Toyota is held up as a model of efficient manufacturing, and Japanese firms lead the world in clean technology, carmaking and consumer electronics. China hopes to make a similar transition. For now, foreigners think that its home-grown electronics and cars are cheap and shoddy, as Japan&#8217;s were thought to be 40 years ago. But quality is steadily improving and China is being taken increasingly seriously as an innovator. The firm that embodies this new, high-tech China is Huawei, the country&#8217;s largest telecoms-equipment company.Founded in 1988, Huawei has risen astonishingly fast. Last year it was the world&#8217;s fourth-largest maker of network equipment, ranked by sales (see chart 6), and this year it is expected to move into third place, according to BDA, a consultancy. It is already ranked a close second in optical networking and third in mobile-network gear. Only slightly behind is ZTE, China&#8217;s second-largest maker of telecoms equipment, founded in 1985. Last year it was in eighth place, and it is moving up the field&#8212;not least because Nortel, the number seven, went bankrupt in January. Both Chinese firms specialise in network infrastructure, but they also make handsets. In a fiercely competitive market, ZTE became the world&#8217;s sixth-largest handset-maker last year. Its goal is to be the number three in handsets within five years. ...]]></description>
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<title>The mother of invention</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Network operators in the poor world are cutting costs and increasing access in innovative waysPROVIDING mobile services in a developing country is very different from doing the same thing in the developed world. For a start, there may not be a reliable electrical grid, or indeed any grid at all, to power the network&#8217;s base stations, which may therefore need to run on diesel for some or all of the time. That in turn means they must be regularly resupplied with fuel, which can be tricky in remote areas. Then there is the challenge of running the network profitably. In Europe mobile subscribers typically spend about $36 a month, a figure known in the industry as the average revenue per user (ARPU). In America that figure is $51 and in Japan $57. But in China it is only around $10, in India less than $7 (see table 5) and in some African countries even lower. As mobile phones get cheaper and more poor people can afford them, ARPUs across the developing world are falling.Operators in poor countries have responded by finding new ways to reduce the cost of operating mobile networks and serving customers. The country that has gone furthest down this road is India, so the result is sometimes known as the &#8220;Indian model&#8221;, even though some of its features originated elsewhere, and some low-cost innovations developed elsewhere have not caught on in India. Despite an ARPU of only $6.50 and call charges of $0.02 per minute, Indian operators have operating margins of around 40%, comparable with leading Western operators, according to a study by Capgemini, a consultancy. &#8220;On low-cost, innovative models, this is where the centre of gravity is,&#8221; says Prashant Gokarn, head of strategy at Reliance Communications, India&#8217;s second-biggest operator. Given India&#8217;s size, its combination of poverty and rapid growth and its reputation as a centre of technology and outsourcing, it is hardly surprising that it has emerged as the crucible of business-model innovation. ...]]></description>
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<title>Eureka moments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How a luxury item became a tool of global developmentHOW did a device that just a few years ago was regarded as a yuppie plaything become, in the words of Jeffrey Sachs, a development guru at Columbia University&#8217;s Earth Institute, &#8220;the single most transformative tool for development&#8221;? A number of things came together to make mobile phones more accessible to poorer people and trigger the rapid growth of the past few years. The spread of mobile phones in the developed world, together with the emergence of two main technology standards, led to economies of scale in both network equipment and handsets. Lower prices brought mobile phones within reach of the wealthiest people in the developing world. That allowed the first mobile networks in developing countries to be set up, though prices were still high.The next big step was the introduction of prepaid billing systems, which allow people to load up their phones with calling credit and then talk until the credit runs out. When mobile phones first came in, subscribers everywhere talked first and paid later (a model known as postpaid), so they had to be creditworthy. Prepaid billing saves operators sending out bills and chasing up debts. It helped the spread of mobile phones among teenagers in Europe in the late 1990s because it offered parents a way of preventing their children from running up huge bills. It also dramatically expanded the market for mobile phones in poor countries. ...]]></description>
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<title>Mobile marvels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Poor countries have already benefited hugely from mobile phones. Now get ready for a second round, says Tom Standage (interviewed here)BOUNCING a great-grandchild on her knee in her house in Bukaweka, a village in eastern Uganda, Mary Wokhwale gestures at her surroundings. &#8220;My mobile phone has been my livelihood,&#8221; she says. In 2003 Ms Wokhwale was one of the first 15 women in Uganda to become &#8220;village phone&#8221; operators. Thanks to a microfinance loan, she was able to buy a basic handset and a roof-mounted antenna to ensure a reliable signal. She went into business selling phone calls to other villagers, making a small profit on each call. This enabled her to pay back her loan and buy a second phone. The income from selling phone calls subsequently enabled her to set up a business selling beer, open a music and video shop and help members of her family pay their children&#8217;s school fees. Business has dropped off somewhat in the past couple of years as mobile phones have fallen in price and many people in her village can afford their own. But Ms Wokhwale&#8217;s life has been transformed.Ms Wokhwale prospered because being able to make and receive phone calls is so important to people that even the very poor are prepared to pay for it. In places with bad roads, unreliable postal services, few trains and parlous landlines, mobile phones can substitute for travel, allow quicker and easier access to information on prices, enable traders to reach wider markets, boost entrepreneurship and generally make it easier to do business. A study by the World Resources Institute found that as developing-world incomes rise, household spending on mobile phones grows faster than spending on energy, water or indeed anything else. ...]]></description>
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<title>Competition comes to Mexican telecoms: Talking and saving</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s dominant telephone firms are under attackAFTER years of exorbitant telephone prices, Mexico&#8217;s beleaguered consumers are finally getting a reprieve. Local fixed-line calls now cost a flat 1.5 pesos ($0.12) if billed individually, regardless of duration, similar to prices elsewhere in Latin America. Mexico&#8217;s mobile-phone rates are the third-cheapest among Latin America&#8217;s big economies at current exchange rates. All this has come despite the near-monopoly enjoyed by firms controlled by Carlos Slim, Mexico&#8217;s richest man: Telmex, which operates 92% of the country&#8217;s fixed lines, and Telcel, which controls 72% of its mobile market.The national antitrust commission cannot curb Telmex directly because it lost a bid to declare the company a &#8220;dominant&#8221; player in 2007 after a decade-long court battle. (The judge ruled that the government had not amassed sufficient proof of the company&#8217;s market power, prompting the commission to file a new claim last year.) Telmex has been equally successful at fending off attempts to grant rival companies access to its network of copper wires, which serve 18m customers.  ...]]></description>
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<title>BT&#x27;s pension problem: Friends, family and grandads too</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A former industry champion battles decline and a huge pension burdenAT THE head office of BT (formerly British Telecom) in London it is hard to find any lingering evidence of imperial hubris. The firm that vied for the telecoms industry&#8217;s top spot in the mid-1990s, promising to be &#8220;one of the first great companies of the 21st century&#8221;, now ranks 28th in its industry by market value. It has long since been overtaken by emerging-market upstarts, including Bharti Airtel, an Indian firm it invested in during its infancy, and by European rivals that did a better job of weathering the dotcom crash of 2000-01. Forget fancy maps charting world domination, or ambitious mission statements&#8212;a visitor today to BT&#8217;s lobby is greeted by the modest hum of the staff canteen.Yet it is also hard to detect any sense of crisis. And crisis, not comfortable mediocrity, is arguably what BT faces today. After a series of profit warnings and accounting problems, this spring its share price fell below its level when the firm was privatised back in 1984, although it has since staged a partial recovery. BT&#8217;s creditors now hold paper that is rated just above junk. Worst of all, the balance-sheet has a whiff of Detroit&#8217;s carmakers: a shrunken business supporting gigantic welfare obligations. ...]]></description>
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<title>America loses its landlines: Cutting the cord</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever greater numbers of Americans are disconnecting their home telephones, with momentous consequencesMUCH has been made of the precipitous decline of America&#8217;s newspapers. According to one much-cited calculation, the country&#8217;s last printed newspaper will land on a doorstep sometime in the first quarter of 2043. That is a positively healthy outlook, however, compared with another staple of American life: the home telephone. Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month. Some analysts now estimate that 25% of households in America rely entirely on mobile phones (or cellphones, as Americans call them)&#8212;a share that could double within the next three years. If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025.The impact of this trend will be greater than most people realise. It will make life increasingly difficult for telecoms firms, naturally. But it will also hurt all business that require landlines, as bills rise and business models are disrupted. No less seriously, the withering fixed-line network threatens the work of the emergency services, such as the police and fire brigade. ...]]></description>
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<title>The decline of the landline: Unwired</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As more people ditch landline phones for mobiles, America&#8217;s regulators need to respondIF YOU want to save money, cut the cord. In these difficult times ever more Americans are heeding this advice and dropping their telephone landlines in favour of mobile phones (see article). Despite some of the flakiest mobile-network coverage in the developed world, one in four households has now gone mobile-only. At current rates the last landline in America will be disconnected sometime in 2025.Good. Mobile phones offer individuals more freedom. Yet confronted by the inexorable march of progress, America&#8217;s telecoms regulators have failed to respond. In many ways the landline network is still an essential utility. Maintaining landline networks provides thousands of jobs (the landline operators support more pensioners than even the car industry does). Landlines are the platform for many public services, such as emergency response. And taxes on landlines are the basis of the complex system of subsidies to ensure universal service, meaning an affordable phone line for all. ...]]></description>
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<title>G20 vows to spur fragile growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The recovery is too weak to end stimulus moves, G20 ministers say, as Britain suggests a transaction tax to fund bailouts.]]></description>
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<title>US jobless rate rises to over 10%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US economy lost 190,000 jobs in October, taking the jobless rate above 10% for the first time since 1983.]]></description>
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<title>eBay in Skype deal with founders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[eBay settles a lawsuit with the founders of Skype, ending uncertainty over the future of the internet phone company.]]></description>
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<title>AIG posts second quarterly profit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Insurer AIG reports its second straight quarterly profit since it was bailed out by the US government. ]]></description>
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<title>Treasury seeks RBS lending proof </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Treasury demands proof from bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland that there is little demand for its business loans.]]></description>
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<title>BA to cut 1,200 jobs amid losses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British Airways says it will cut its global workforce by an extra 1,200 as it reports a first-half loss for the first time.]]></description>
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<title>Fannie Mae asks for another $15bn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US mortgage finance firm Fannie Mae asks for another $15bn in state aid after announcing heavy losses.]]></description>
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<title>South Korea approves India deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[South Korea ratifies a free trade deal with India that will give the two Asian countries greater access to each other's markets.]]></description>
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<title>Major economies &#x27;all recovering&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Major economies are showing strong signs of recovery, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.]]></description>
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<title>Ukraine &#x27;pays Russian gas bill&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ukraine says it has paid its gas bill to Russia, calming fears that Europe may suffer disruptions to gas supplies.]]></description>
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<title>G20 ministers meet in St Andrews</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's most powerful finance ministers are in St Andrews for a summit aimed at pulling the global economy out of recession.]]></description>
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<title>Craving for raw garlic sees Irish finance minister through crisis</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8340120.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An economist reveals Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan's unlikely fondness for munching on raw garlic. ]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines for financial journalists</title>
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<title>Uphill struggle</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8348895.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mixed response at G20 to Britain's transaction tax idea]]></description>
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<title>Retro chic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brands from East Germany still going strong 20 years on ]]></description>
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<title>Rapid descent</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346292.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[How did British Airways manage to fall so far?]]></description>
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<title>Afghan resources</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8339570.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is more than just poppy dollars in Afghanistan]]></description>
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<title>Darling project</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346827.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[G20 finance ministers to pursue banking reform]]></description>
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<title>Stalled engine</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8345630.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Has GM dealt German carmaker Opel a fatal blow?]]></description>
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<title>Australia raises growth forecasts</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346130.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of Australia says the country is growing faster than it had expected.]]></description>
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<title>US hits China pipes with tariffs</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8345881.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United States imposes high anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese pipes as trade disputes mar the run-up to a bilateral summit.]]></description>
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<title>US shares rise on business data</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8345785.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[US shares rise strongly after official figures show business productivity has risen at its highest rate in six years.]]></description>
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<title>More house price falls forecast</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8345131.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The recovery in UK house prices could be punctuated by a 6.6% drop in values next year, property group Savills forecasts.]]></description>
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<title>Post union welcomes &#x27;concessions&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8347201.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The postal union says Royal Mail made "significant concessions" in an agreement which led it to call off planned strikes.]]></description>
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<title>Pioneer shares up on smaller loss</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346323.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Shares in Japanese electronics maker Pioneer rise 9% after the company announced smaller-than-expected losses.]]></description>
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<title>F1 designer unveils electric car</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8344532.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new sustainable electric car designed for city or town use is the result of a £9m investment programme.]]></description>
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<title>UBS fined &#xA3;8m by the UK regulator</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8344346.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Financial Services Authority fines Swiss banking giant UBS £8m for failing to stop employees making unauthorised trades.]]></description>
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<title>Banks must act on refunds rules</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8347147.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Banks will have to change the way they deal with customers who say their cards have been fraudulently used with the correct PIN.]]></description>
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<title>Pensioners to lose payment choice</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8348264.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[New pensioners claiming the state pension will no longer be able to choose to receive it in advance from 6 April 2010.]]></description>
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<title>Personal insolvency rises by 28%</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346170.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Personal insolvencies hit a record in England and Wales in the third quarter of 2009, with the total up 28% on a year ago.]]></description>
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<title>Sugar firm to shut pension scheme</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8347375.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Tate & Lyle sugar company becomes the latest to announce the closure of its final-salary pension scheme.]]></description>
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<title>South Africa cancels Airbus deal</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8344722.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[South Africa cancels a multi-billion dollar contract for eight military aircraft with Airbus, citing escalating costs.]]></description>
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<title>Libyans &#x27;unlikely&#x27; to compensate</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8339252.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A lawyer who has advised Libya in the past says it is unlikely victims of the IRA in NI will be compensated.]]></description>
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<title>China defends export restrictions</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8344053.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[China denies claims by the US, EU and Mexico that it is unfairly constraining exports of some raw materials.]]></description>
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<title>JP Morgan agrees $75m bribe fine</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8343984.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[US banking giant JP Morgan agrees to pay a fine of $75m to settle charges that it bribed officials in Alabama.]]></description>
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<title>Carmaker Toyota eyes smaller loss</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8343721.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Carmaker Toyota cuts its annual loss forecast after announcing a return to profit in the most recent quarter.]]></description>
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<title>Panasonic begins Sanyo takeover</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8343743.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Japanese electronics group Panasonic says it has begun the process to take over smaller rival Sanyo.]]></description>
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<title>RBS bank reports losses of &#xA3;2.2bn</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8345922.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland announces that it lost £2.2bn in the three months to the end of September.]]></description>
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<title>Extra &#xA3;25bn to stimulate UK economy</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8344189.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bank of England is to pump an extra £25bn into the economy but has kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq in third overseas oil deal</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8344067.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Iraq reaches a deal with a consortium led by US oil giant Exxon Mobil to develop the country's West Qurna 1 oil field.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq signs new overseas oil deal</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8338058.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Iraq's oil ministry signs an agreement with a consortium led by the Italian firm, ENI, to develop the Zubair oilfield.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8342089.stm">
<title>Gold hits new high on India deal</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8342089.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The price of gold reaches an all-time high after a large sale of the precious commodity by the International Monetary Fund to India.]]></description>
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<title>Bank comments hit Indian shares</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8327493.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's leading shares slip 2% after the country's central bank says it is time to end some of its support measures.]]></description>
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<title>Windfall Is Seen as Bank Bonuses Are Paid in Stock</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08pay.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bankers are likely to make unusually large gains on the stock grants and options they received after shares in their companies fell sharply during the financial meltdown.]]></description>
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<title>Britain and U.S. Clash at G-20 on Tax to Insure Against Crises</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/global/08bank.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown of Britain told G-20 finance ministers that the world needed a system to force banks, not taxpayers, to cover future bailouts.]]></description>
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<title>Inside the Global Gold Frenzy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Amid a global frenzy fed by hedge funds, speculators and governments all rushing to stock up, the price of gold briefly surpassed $1,100 an ounce on Friday, a record high.]]></description>
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<title>Economic View: Maybe a New Day for Doctors&#x2019; Pay</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/economy/08view.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[How proposed health care bills could accelerate a move toward paying doctors by salary, not by how many procedures they perform.]]></description>
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<title>Strategies: In Fund Flows, a Caution for Stocks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The skepticism of mutual fund investors during Wall Street’s rally suggests that stocks aren’t entering a bull market.]]></description>
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<title>Stocks and Bonds: Seeing the Glass Half Full Despite the Day&#x2019;s Reports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The market had been expecting unemployment to top 10 percent before peaking. But the pace of job losses has accelerated and the rate is likely to go higher.]]></description>
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<title>Off the Charts: Car Buyers Come Back, but Not in Droves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A factor causing sluggishness may be that auto companies produced and, with discounts, sold too many cars in the years before the recession.]]></description>
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<title>Berkshire Says Profit Tripled in Quarter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The big Warren Buffett-led conglomerate said its third-quarter profit tripled as the improving economy and stock market boosted the value of its derivative contracts.]]></description>
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<title>The Count: Small Businesses Hunker Down to Survive</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/smallbusiness/08count.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Small businesses have cut overhead, payroll and advertising to achieve rising profits in spite of the downturn.]]></description>
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<title>The Boss: Bouquets That Bear Fruit</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/jobs/08boss.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The co-founder of Edible Arrangements says the idea for the company goes back to his family roots.]]></description>
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<title>British Bankers Defend Their Pay and Bonuses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regulators, central bankers and citizens are criticizing bankers for continuing large compensation packages while receiving government funds.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The number of unemployed rose to 15.7 million in October, as 190,000 nonfarm jobs were lost, the government said, and economists do not expect relief until next year.]]></description>
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<title>A.I.G. Reports Profit but Warns of Continued Volatility</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/07insure.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The insurance giant, which was bailed out last year amid the financial crisis, warned that earnings would remain choppy as the company executes its restructuring plan.]]></description>
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<title>Founders Win a Piece of Skype From eBay</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/technology/companies/07skype.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The founders of Skype will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers who bid to purchase Skype. In exchange, the founders will get a 14 percent share in the new Skype.]]></description>
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<title>British Airways to Cut Another 1,200 Jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The total number of planned staff reductions rises to nearly 5,000 as the British carrier wrestles with what its chief executive called the toughest year in the history of aviation.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/your-money/household-budgeting/07money.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Money Issues That Can Test Even a Rock-Solid Marriage</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/your-money/household-budgeting/07money.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Money may be the root of all evil, and in a marriage it can certainly be the seed of trouble. Here are five things couples should do to sidestep difficulties.]]></description>
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<title>Enthusiasm for I.P.O.&#x27;s Starts to Fade Across Asia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/global/07ipo.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are signs that the primary equity window that saw a big revival two quarters ago is beginning to quickly shut.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/world/asia/07china.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Chinese Agencies Struggle Over Video Game</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/world/asia/07china.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two government agencies are facing off over the right to regulate the popular online game World of Warcraft.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/global/07trade.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Beijing Denounces U.S. Duties on Chinese-Made Pipes</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/global/07trade.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[China denounced new duties as protectionist, a week before President Obama is due in China talks.]]></description>
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<title>G.M. Executive Quits Over Opel Decision</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The head of European operations for General Motors quit after the automaker backed out of a deal to sell its Opel brand, a decision that has angered German workers and government officials.]]></description>
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<title>Job Cutbacks Rise by 1,200 at a Carrier in Britain</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/global/07air.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The airline says the additional reductions are necessary in what its chief calls the most difficult year in airline history.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/nyregion/07network.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Turning Happy Hour Into a Global Job Search</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the New York economy founders, job seekers are using social events to forge foreign connections that hold hopes of new careers.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/technology/companies/07rim.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Research in Motion Plans Big Share Buyback</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stock in the company, creator of the BlackBerry smartphone, has lost about a third of its value since September.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/blackstone-reports-275-million-3rd-quarter-profit/?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Blackstone Reports $275 Million Third-Quarter Profit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Blackstone Group on Friday reported a $275 million profit for the third quarter, as the giant publicly held private equity firm bounced back from the depths of the financial crisis last year. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/07tax.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Yacht Broker Sentenced to 2 Months for Tax Evasion</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/07tax.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Florida yacht broker gets credit for promptly confessing and for assisting a federal inquiry of tax evasion at offshore banks.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/economy/07credit.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Consumer Borrowing Falls Sharply</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/economy/07credit.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve said borrowing fell $14.8 billion, the biggest decline since July.]]></description>
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<title>World Briefing | Africa: Ivory Coast: Judge Rejects Request in Toxic Waste Case</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/world/africa/07briefs-Ivorycoast.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[About $45 million intended to compensate 30,000 victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal in Ivory Coast will not be diverted to a self-appointed community representative, a judge in Abidjan ruled Friday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/world/europe/06dresden.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Brain Drain in Reverse Behind Fallen Berlin Wall</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/world/europe/06dresden.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two decades after the Berlin Wall came down, those who once left Dresden to seek work in western Germany are returning.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06trade.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>E.U. Finds Trade Barriers Rising Since Global Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06trade.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[But a report from the European Union suggests there is no sign of the spiral of protectionism that some feared when the worldwide downturn took hold last year.]]></description>
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<title>Stimulus to Expand From Bank of England</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06rates.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[While Britain struggles to start a recovery, the European Central Bank hints that it will soon be ready to withdraw some economic support.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06insider.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>14 Charged With Insider Trading in Galleon Case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors charged 14 hedge fund employees, lawyers and other investors in criminal complaints that seem to be connected to the Raj Rajaratnam case.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06network.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A Scheme That Relied on Early Deal Tips, With Touches From a James Bond Movie</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06network.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors say a scheme brought in $20 million and relied on early tips about deals from the people involved in doing them, with the modern touch of disposable cellphones.]]></description>
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<title>A Not-So-Guilty Pleasure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sales of footwear were up sharply in September and October, possibly because they are a less expensive way to indulge.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06ubs.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>UBS Fined $13.3 Million for Illicit Trades by Employees</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06ubs.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Four employees at a bank unit in London had carried out unauthorized trading on at least 39 accounts.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06eurobank.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Winners and Losers in Financial Crisis Emerging in Europe</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06eurobank.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The earnings of two European banks, BNP Paribas and Commerzbank, painted a stark contrast a little over a year after Lehman Brothers fell.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06ruble.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russia Moves to Resume Borrowing From Abroad</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06ruble.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Any bond issue would be expected to draw keen interest because Russia is in better financial shape than a decade ago.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/technology/internet/06net.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/technology/internet/06net.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers struck a compromise between governments seeking to impose tough anti-piracy laws and consumer groups looking to enshrine Internet access as a right.]]></description>
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<title>Jobs Question Jeopardizes Wind Farm&#x2019;s Stimulus Deal</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/energy-environment/06wind.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some lawmakers are not happy that the Texas project would create many more jobs in China than in the United States.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06corn.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Rules on Modified Corn Skirted, Study Says</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06corn.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects.]]></description>
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<title>New Drug for H1N1 Flu Offers Hope</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06drug.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Peramivir might also be a life saver for its developer, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, an unprofitable biotechnology company in Birmingham, Ala.]]></description>
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<title>Airbus Loses Customer for Troop Transport Plane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[South Africa canceled a multibillion-dollar order for the Airbus A400M troop transport plane, dealing a painful blow to the program.]]></description>
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<title>New U.S. Tax on Chinese Pipes</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/global/06pipe.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The duties on $2.6 billion in annual imports of the pipes will be 36.5 percent for the 37 largest exporters, the Commerce Department said.]]></description>
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<title>China&#x2019;s Growth Picks Up Speed but Raises Concerns</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/business/global/23yuan.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The country’s 8.9 percent growth in the quarter was largely fueled by a generous stimulus package, but some are worried it might lead to a bubble and inflation.]]></description>
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<title>Rising Debt a Threat to Japanese Economy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/business/global/21yen.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The question of how much debt a country can carry looms large in the U.S., but even larger in Japan.]]></description>
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<title>China Approves Disney Theme Park in Shanghai</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/global/04disney.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A resort, one of the largest-ever foreign investments in China, would cover 1,000 acres and cost $3.5 billion.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/global/03vegemite.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Vegemite Contest Draws Protests</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/global/03vegemite.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s still unclear whether a contest to name a new Vegemite product by Kraft Foods Australia was a marketing failure or a publicity coup.]]></description>
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<title>At Air India, Losses, Rats and a Brawl in the Sky</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/business/global/31airindia.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The airline, which is expected to lose more than $1 billion this business year, has chased rats from a plane and had a midair fistfight among crew members.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06norris.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>High &#x26; Low Finance: Goodbye to Reforms of 2002</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06norris.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress is apparently gutting Sarbanes-Oxley, which required public companies to make sure their internal controls against fraud were not full of holes.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/education/03iht-riedentre.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Special Report: International Education: M.B.A.&#x2019;s Guide Socially Concerned Entrepreneurs</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/education/03iht-riedentre.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Business school students have turned toward courses in social entrepreneurship.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ayn Rand&#x2019;s Revenge</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.]]></description>
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<title>In the Long Run</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brief introductions to the life and theories of the economist John Maynard Keynes from Peter Clarke and Robert Skidelsky.]]></description>
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