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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>(Stolen) financial data doesn&#8217;t cost much these days</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/09/12928/stolen-financial-data-doesnt-cost-much-these-days/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psst. Are you in the market for a social security number or three, by any chance? How about access to a compromised bank account? It will cost you - about 6 to 11 cents on the dollar.

At least, that is what the creators of this recently-discovered price list were demanding, according to researchers at McAfee Avert Labs....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When it comes to speed, the US government could learn from the Fed</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/09/12926/when-it-comes-to-speed-the-us-government-could-learn-from-the-fed/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that in this age of online and mobile banking the US government has opted to disburse its $160bn stimulus package by bulk-mailing cheques to 128m American households?

Over at Bloggingstocks.com, Joseph Lazzard parsed the views of US economists about the speed (or lack thereof) of fiscal policy stimulus....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mr T turns to Whitbread</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Robert Tchenguiz up to? One minute everyone is muttering about his solvency and he's been kicked out of the Sunday Times' Guess Rich List. The next he turns up on the register of Whitbread (through contracts for difference) with a stake of 3 per cent - encouraging everyone to believe there is somehow a break-up bid in the offering....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Darling to save British housing market</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should do the trick. (HT A Slade)

HM TREASURY
PN 44/08                                                             9 May 2008
Strengthening support for home owners in current market conditions

A new £10 million package of measures to support home owners who may be facing difficulties with their mortgage,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Edwards: &#8220;We are on the cusp of an equity meltdown that will slash and shred portfolios like Freddie Krueger&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/09/12922/edwards-we-are-on-the-cusp-of-an-equity-meltdown-that-will-slash-and-shred-portfolios-like-freddie-krueger/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could the uber-bear, Albert Edwards, possibly become more bearish?

Yep! From his global strategy weekly, sent out to SocGen clients:

Even as structural bears on equities over the last decade, we have never felt the confidence to lower equities to a minimum possible exposure of 30%. That ends today....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Calling oil wrong</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chart of the day - from John Kemp at Sempra Metals:



Here's an illustration of how the market has consistently called the future price of oil wrong over the past five years - snapshots of forward prices each November, compared with the reality of crude prices. Since 2003 the forward market has persistently ignored the great oil rally....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>That insider trading debate&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hector Sants will not like this, but the debate over whether insider dealing should be decriminalised is gathering pace.

First there was Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling, who suspects the current market abuse regime owes more to the power of vested interests than to economic logic.

Next Michael Giberson at the Knowledge Problem blog is on the case,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Absolute twit(ter)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, who runs the A VC blog in New York, went to a hedge fund event on Thursday and decided to twitter the event:

Headed to the semi annual meeting of a hedge fund of funds. Expect to get some insights and will twitter them

 			  Observation: great hedge fund managers have come out of goldman,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Friday: 

What do you get when you cross good, thematic long-term investors and stock pickers with quarterly or annual redemptions? Perverse decision-making and style drift. Or a portfolio manager with an ulcer.

Inflation is like the boor who goes to the hottest restaurant in town without a reservation,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Snap news</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest on Friday,

- Tom Hunter tries to block open offer planned by Dobbies Garden Centres. Statement

-  Conditions "challenging" for bid target Minerva. Statement.

-  Mexican silver producer Fresnillo prices London IPO at 555p a share, raising £905m, market cap £4bn. Reuters

-  BG's talks with Australian bid target Origin ongoing but so far inconclusive....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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