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		<title><![CDATA[SL Green Realty Corp. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions.  Our first question comes from James Feldman &#8211; Bank of America.   James Feldman &#8211; Bank of America Marc, you talked about how it seems like the market may be nearing a bottom.  Can you just give us an update...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merger and Acquisition Activity To Pick Up As Lockheed Moves First?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last major down turn in defense spending during the Clinton Administration there was a severe contraction in the number of firms doing defense work.  Rather then companies going under as they had in past down periods many merged with others.  This was actually encouraged by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:51:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ATC Technology Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. And we'll take our first question from Tom Osborne at CJS Securities. Tom Osborne - CJS Securities Hi, good morning. And congratulations on good year. Todd Peters Thank you, Tom. Tom Osborne - CJS Securities My first question relates to your demand in Logistics. Can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:07:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Greenbrier Companies F1Q09 (Qtr End 11/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Frank Magdlen - The Robins Group.  Frank Magdlen - The Robins Group Could you give us a little more guidance or help in trying to understand the significance of steel scrap pricing or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:58:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Recession: One Year And Counting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's official -- we've been in recession since last December. Though most of the attention to the subject has come since Wall Street collapsed in September, the National Bureau of Economic Research today said the U.S. economy had been contracting since its peak in December of 2007.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:59:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on 23andMe and the Future of Personal Genomics]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been remiss in addressing a particularly thoughtful response to my earlier post on 23andMe's price-cutting and its potential consequences for the future of personal genomics. So let me remedy that.    To recap briefly: 23andMe, the spit-to-read-your-genome company, dropped its subscription price to $399 from $999, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:09:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fed staff see first half economic &#39;contraction&#39;]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200804/ai_n25134346]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; Federal Reserve staff predict the US economy will contract in the first half of 2008 amid worsening housing market and credit woes, minutes from a central bank meeting revealed Tuesday.  Such a downturn would be defined as a recession by most economists. Moreover, some policymakers at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Remembering 'The Forgotten Man']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amity Shlaes says in her interview ("Remembering 'The Forgotten Man,'" January) a lot that should be said. But she also says some things that shouldn't be said, especially about the Federal Reserve. Shlaes adopts Milton Friedman's thesis that the Fed failed in its duty by contracting the quantity of money...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[No clear answers.(FINANCIAL VIEWS)(Company overview)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6683/is_200803/ai_n26480569]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentary    Going into 2008, there were some questions whether the U.S. economy  was in danger of slipping into a recession. Until recently, some  observers argued things were not as bad as they seemed, but many  believed we were in the early stage of what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unemployment claims rising]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- A rise in jobless claims and a drop in a key forecasting gauge provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is faltering and may be slipping into recession.   The Conference Board, a business-backed research group, said Thursday that its index of leading economic indicators...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights and Key Issues * Recent economic indicators continue to indicate deteriorating economic conditions. Consumer demand has been hit by declining payroll employment, rising energy prices, record levels of mortgage delinquency and falling wealth. Both ISM indexes are showing mild contraction, and orders have been disappointing. And there is still...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tough choices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn6207/is_20080216/ai_n24955949]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MAKE A GUESS. WILL THE US FEDERAL RESERVE Bank Fed continue to slash its policy rate during the rest of 2008 or just stop at the current level of 3%?   Normally, analysts would start scrambling for data and historical speeches by central bankers. Not this time, though. Such...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US stocks tumble after weak manufacturing data]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200801/ai_n21177096]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AFP &#8212; US stocks switched into negative territory Wednesday after a disappointing manufacturing report rattled investors on tenterhooks ahead of the minutes of the Federal Reserve's last meeting.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 103.15 points (0.78 percent) to 13,161.67 around 1542 GMT and the tech-heavy Nasdaq...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Federal Reserve cut the rate at which it makes direct loans to banks, sending a signal to Wall Street that it is aware of the credit contraction that has hit global financial markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_59/ai_n27356822]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Federal Reserve cut the rate at which it makes direct loans to banks, sending a signal to Wall Street that it is aware of the credit contraction that has hit global financial markets. At the same time, the Fed wisely refrained from lowering its target federal-funds rate, through...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US manufacturing activity rebounds: ISM]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200701/ai_n17082605]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US industrial activity rebounded in December following a surprise contraction in the prior month, a survey by the Institute of Supply Management showed. The ISM index of national industrial activity rose to a better-than-expected 51.4 percent in December from 49.5 percent in November. Most Wall Street analysts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Housing market hurting business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQH/is_8_49/ai_n26986711]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite strong national retail data for January 2006 and expectations for significant real GDP growth during this year's first quarter, the prospects for outdoor power equipment will be dampened by the housing contraction that started in the fall 2005, according the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's OPEI industry forecast (see charts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Liquidity dries out.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200606/ai_n17507862]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Gerry Van Wyngen    Jun 01, 2006 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The recent fall in world  stock markets appears to have come as a surprise to many market  observers.  However, the reasons for the fall are quite obvious.  Just  as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Woodgate injury compounds Real misery]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200602/ai_n16073174]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MADRID AFP &#8212; Injury-prone Jonathan Woodgate received some small comfort when it emerged he had not torn his hamstring in Real Madrid's Champions League defeat to Arsenal at the Bernabeu.  The injury-prone England defender, kept out of the limelight for an entire year following his 2004 move from Newcastle,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ISM index shows slight cooling of factory sector]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200512/ai_n15885610]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; The US factory sector cooled slightly in November but activity remained robust, the Institute for Supply Management said.  The ISM manufacturing index dipped to 58.1 percent from 59.1 percent in October.  But the figure was slightly better than the 58.0 percent expected on Wall Street,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[10-year T-note tanks.(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3104/is_200511/ai_n17324318]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two main issues that could affect 10-year T-note futures  in November: inflation and economic contraction, says Robert Fuhrmann,  account executive at My Futures Online. Currently, Federal Reserve Bank  Chairman Alan Greenspan appears more concerned about inflation.  "The market's pricing in an additional quarter point...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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