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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:08:58 +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>
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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>Lunch Wrap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On FT Alphaville this morning,

- "We are not through the worst of this crisis. The worst is still to come."

- Calling the oil price wrong

- Hedge twitter

- Insider trading debate trundles on

- Some intriguing RAW on Intercontinental Hotel on Markets Live

- Some further reading

- Want to be an FT Alphaviller?

On FT.com,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fancy being an FT Alphaviller?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FT Alphaville, the FT's hyper-active financial blog, is looking to expand. We need a new reporter immediately to replace Helen Thomas, who has escaped to New York to write Lex. But we are also looking for additional talent to develop the site further - bright, web-enthused writers who will help build upon Alphaville's hugely successful first 18 months....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Markets live transcript 9 May 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markets live chat transcript for the chat ending at 12:03 on 9 May 2008.  Participants in this chat were: Paul Murphy (PM) Neil Hume (NH) &nbsp; PM:Hello welcome to Markets LivePM:Daily stock chat here on FT AlphavillePM:Neil Hume is backPM:I think we should be able to see the difference straight away.NH:what do you meanPM:Hmm....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tin hats back on! - Markets Live at 11am</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Murphy was all over the shop on Friday, his fellow FT Alphavillers having all gone on holiday at once.

And Neil Hume has gone for writing lessons.

Hopefully, he will be back in time for Markets Live, FT Alphaville's daily markets chat.

Join the discussion at 11am.

Hit the tab above or click here

_______

About Markets Live:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:32:22 +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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