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		<title><![CDATA[Latest Fortis bid may be third time lucky]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan may finally win Fortis shareholder support    THE LATEST proposals for BNP Paribas to buy the ailing Fortis banking operations could prove to be third time lucky in securing shareholder approval.   The new package put together by the Belgian government raises the net asset...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EUROPEAN UNION]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20090114/ai_n31192454]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Stock markets    Shares fell 1.5 per cent as investor concern intensified about the scale of the economic slowdown, with financials leading indices lower. But Fortis rose nearly 18 per cent on market talk that Belgium's government was set to buy the rest of the troubled financial services...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Belgian government offers to resign]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20081220/ai_n31150466]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme offered the resignation of his entire government Friday over allegations it sought to interfere with a court case on the Fortis bank bailout.   Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen resigned earlier Friday after Belgium's highest court said the government had tried last...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Belgian gov&#39;t pumps 3.5bln euros into KBC bank]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; KBC became the latest Belgian bank to get its capital shored up by the Belgian state which pumped 3.5 billion euros (4.4 billion dollars) into the group on Monday after a share slump.  After riding to the rescue rival banks Fortis and Dexia earlier this month,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tennis: Jankovic to end season on top]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. AP -- Jelena Jankovic of Serbia will end the season at No. 1, outlasting four other players who held the top ranking during the year.   Jankovic's 4,555 points give her a commanding lead over Dinara Safina (3,782) and Serena Williams (3,716). She will retain the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fortis shareholders to sue company bosses in Dutch court]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE AFP &#8212; Shareholders of former Belgian-Dutch financial group Fortis, now dismantled and part-nationalised, are to sue three former company bosses in a Netherlands court for fraud, their lawyer told AFP Thursday.  The shareholders have appointed a firm of advocates in Amsterdam to represent their claim against former...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fortis shares resume trading down over 60%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; Shares in Fortis bank were worth barely two euros when they resumed trading Tuesday for the first time since the group was broken up earlier this month, down over 60 percent from the previous closing price.  Fortis shares have not traded since Friday October 3, just...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shareholders threaten legal action over Fortis bailout deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; Fortis shareholders on Monday mulled legal action after French bank BNP Paribas agreed a deal with the Belgian and Luxembourg governments to carve up the troubled finance group.  "It is an outrage that management, at a time where more than 80 percent of the value of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Germany and Denmark to guarantee all savings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Germany's second-biggest lender in EUR 50bn salvage plan * BNP Paribas to take a majority share in Fortis    GERMANY sent shockwaves through the European financial system yesterday when Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her government would guarantee all private savings accounts with immediate effect.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Belgian PM talking to private groups about Fortis stake]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS, AFP &#8212; Belgium's prime minister said Sunday that he was in talks with private groups on the future of the troubled Fortis financial group and that there would be an announcement "within hours".  Over the weekend the Belgian government has been mulling the future of Fortis, amid speculation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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