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The Weekender

On FT Alphaville this week,

- Do not sell equities, Credit Suisse says.

- Aggressive FX marketing goes mainstream.

- The end of Kobe beef burgers, or how thrift stole Christmas.

- The segmented commercial real estate crash in the UK.

- US excess reserves, in pics.

- How ETFs are like MBS.

- When did BoA chief Krawcheck stop beating her spouse?

- Fitch calls false dawn in UK housing.

- Gold is off the charts, and heading to $1500.

- Why Versace ditched Japan.

- How to capitalise on recapitalisation.

- Latvia preparing for devaluation?

- Reflation vs deflation vs who cares?

Baby Boomers: don’t retire, if you can possibly avoid it.

The £25bn question facing Lloyds.

- Of gold coin craziness and conspiracy.

- On the matter of renewing confidence in the Latvian economy.

- The dollar-adjusted S&P 500.

- Gold ETFs, caveat emptor.

- US consumers’ credit problem.

- Fuming with Dave.

- Et tu, Bernanke?

- No exit for South Korea.

- How to spot a takeover target - quant style.

- Big Blackrock.

Most/least read posts of the week,

- The world and the dollar react to Robert Fisk.

Bailout watch, US Federal Housing Administration edition.

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