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		<title><![CDATA[AIG to Sell Taiwan Unit For $2.2 Billion, More Deals Seen]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Faith Hung and Michael Flaherty TAIPEI/HONG KONG (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - American International Group AIG has struck a deal to sell its Taiwan life insurance unit for $2.15 billion, marking its largest disposal of a unit since a government bailout saved it from collapse last year. The deal is a key...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:28:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG sells Taiwan unit for $US2.2bn; more deals seen]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Faith Hung and Michael Flaherty of Reuters TAIPEI/HONG KONG - American International Group has struck a deal to sell its Taiwan life insurance for $US2.15 billion, marking its largest disposal of a division since a government bailout last year saved it from collapse. Primus Financial, a new firm founded...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:17:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Predator Execs Eye Global Expansion]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a sleeper in the race for fielding more unmanned aerial vehicle UAV capability worldwide — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is already flying a reduced-signature Predator C and the company is looking to bank its existing gains. "They already have the ground stations and infrastructure in place. Predator C...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:52:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citi on Its Way to Breakup?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal tonight says, "Citigroup Takes First Step Toward Breakup." But what does that mean, exactly? Or had the Journal gone a bit far with the notion that the bank is doing some way, way overdue housecleaning?The eye-popping bit is that the asset dispositions are reportedly at the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:08:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces First Interstate Bank as Recipient of 2009 Community Spirit Award]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[       SEATTLE -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Seattle Bank has named First        Interstate Bank, headquartered in Billings, Montana, as the recipient of        the Seattle Bankâ??s 2009 Community...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Measuring Microfinance's Effectiveness]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major issue for microcredit, one of the main efforts to fill the holes in market economics, is the lack of a consistent way to measure its impact. For instance, how many of the people who get microcredit are lifted out of poverty, for instance. Does it work as well...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:25:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zila Inc F1Q09 (Qtr End 11/01/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Harvey Cappitski - Maloney Securities. Harvey Cappitski - Maloney Securities Why do you think your lenders are not being well cooperative with you? I mean you seem to have been successful in the past, you seem to know what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:57:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Leaders at Harvard Share Views on Crisis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top business leaders speaking at Harvard Business School predicted the current financial crisis will not be overcome quickly, and that the U.S. faces even greater long-run challenges including the need to develop alternative energy and diminishing competitiveness on the global stage.    Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:58:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The AP Starts Feeling the Industry's Pain]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the epicenter of the troubled U.S. media industry sits the venerable Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio, and television stations. Its members both contribute stories that are circulted over the AP news wire, and publish original articles written by AP's own staffers. In addition, many...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:57:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Rural Closes on Additional Government Guaranteed Funding in Program that Supports Rural Economic Development]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERNDON, Va. -- National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation National Rural announced today that it closed on a $500 million loan facility from the Federal Financing Bank guaranteed by the United States of America, acting through the Rural Utilities Service RUS--a Rural Development agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economic Facts: U.S. Economy Is Doing Quite Well]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark J. Perry submits:  Successive speakers at the Democratic National Convention poured scorn on President Bush's economic record. Yet Democrats cited no good evidence for their claims that the administration has produced a stagnant economy, widening disparities of income and wealth, high unemployment, and a heavy burden of government...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[French bank announces purchase of Citigroup&#39;s German unit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200807/ai_n27916662]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; French cooperative bank Credit Mutuel said on Friday that it had agreed to buy Citigroup's activities in Germany for 4.9 billion euros (7.7 billion dollars) in cash.  Credit Mutuel, which was in competition with leading German bank Deutsche Bank, said in a statement: "With this major...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Affirms NCB, FSB and National Cooperative Bank CMBS Servicer Ratings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings affirms the commercial mortgage-backed securities CMBS servicer ratings of NCB, FSB as follows: primary servicer rating at 'CPS1-' and master servicer rating at 'CMS2-'. In addition, Fitch affirms National Cooperative Bank's NCB special servicer rating at 'CSS3'.  The servicer ratings reflect the bank's experienced and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The World Bank; from reconstruction to development to equity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QLQ/is_2008_May/ai_n25403596]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank; from reconstruction to development to equity.  Marshall, Katherine.  Routledge  2008  191 pages  $28.95  Paperback  Routledge global institutions  HG3881  Marshall (senior fellow, Georgetown U.) examines the origins, the mission, and the inner workings of the World Bank. The author...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dairyland, conservancy collaborate on bluffland preservation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new conservation easement will preserve 110 acres of oak savanna and dry bluff prairie along the Great River Road in Alma, Wis. The Mississippi Valley Conservancy and Dairyland Power Cooperative announced their first collaborative effort Tuesday at the conservancy's U.S. Bank office in downtown La Crosse. Under the easement,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cooperative Bankshares, Inc. Reports First Quarter Earnings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_April_22/ai_n25342171]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Cooperative Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: COOP) (the "Company"), the parent company of Cooperative Bank (the "Bank"), reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 of $752,000 or $0.11 per diluted share. Net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2007 was $2.1 million or $0.32 per...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Affirms National Consumer Cooperative Bank LT IDR at 'A-'; Rating Outlook Stable]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of National Consumer Cooperative Bank NCB and its related subsidiaries. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Approximately $450 million of debt and $1 billion of deposits are affected by this action. A complete list of ratings is detailed at the end of this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MobiClear, Inc. Signs Licensing Agreement with Lakonian Bank, Ltd. and Cooperative Bank of Lakonia and Peloponnisos]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Dec_19/ai_n27479377]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Three-Year Agreement, Two Hundred Thousand Registered Cards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MOODY'S ASSIGNS FIRST-TIME RATINGS TO TAIWAN COOPERATIVE BANK]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5561/is_200712/ai_n22710022]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Moody's Investors Service has today assignedfirst-time ratings to Taiwan Cooperative Bank TCB in Taiwan. The ratings assigned are a long-term/short-term local and foreigncurrency deposit ratings of A2 and Prime-1 and a bank financial strengthrating (BFSMoody's Investors Service has today assignedfirst-time ratings to Taiwan Cooperative Bank TCB in Taiwan. The ratings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TAIWAN: MOODY'S ASSIGNS FIRST-TIME RATINGS TO TAIWAN COOPERATIVE BANK.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6465/is_200712/ai_n25740499]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Moody's Investors Service has today assigned  first-time  ratings to Taiwan Cooperative Bank TCB in Taiwan. The ratings assigned  are a long-term/short-term local and foreign  currency deposit ratings  of A2 and Prime-1 and a bank financial strength    Moody's Investors Service has today assigned...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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