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	<title>Comments on: The FT Alphaville guide to Crunch Week</title>
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		<title>by: A severe case of the runs</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/09/17/7343/the-ft-alphaville-guide-to-crunch-week/#comment-6399</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[...] A run on the bank: Ever since the Bank of England announced that they were offering Northern Rock an emergency line of credit, people have been queueing to withdraw to withdraw their money in the first bank run in the UK for decades.  The government has been forced to announce that it will guarantee the deposits of Northern Rock customers, in the hope that this will stem the crisis. Unfortunately, rumours about other UK banks being in similar difficulties are already causing their share prices to fall precipitously. Given that this is only day one of Crunch week, things could get even worse! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>by: Selling Northern Rock : Interactive Investor Blog</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/09/17/7343/the-ft-alphaville-guide-to-crunch-week/#comment-6333</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[...] Alphaville has a guide to the ‘crunch week’ ahead, in which $49b of commercial paper matures, the US treasury secretary meets Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, Lehman Brothers opens the third quarter reporting season for US banks, the US Federal Reserve makes its interest rate decision, the Bank of England releases its Monetary Policy Committee minutes, subprime is under scrutiny in the US, Mervyn King and Ben Bernanke testify infront of committees. It finishes on Friday when, says the FT it’s: Time to see where the bodies were buried. [...]]]></description>
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