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		<title><![CDATA[Expect Strong Growth for the Yuan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F177050-expect-strong-growth-for-the-yuan%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Pavese submits:  In a recent Investment Outlook, Bill Gross suggested that China may abandon its dollar peg within six months&#8217; time.  While we are not willing to wager aggressively on the precise timing of such a move, we agree that the current regime is unsustainable.  As...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:05:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Europe agrees on plan to revamp policing of banks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUICK SUMMARY | FULL STORY By John O'Donnell and Julien Toyer of Reuters BRUSSELS - European Union ministers have reached a deal to set up super-watchdogs to police financial services, heralding a tougher regime for a banking industry blamed for triggering the economic crisis. "We've got a result," said French...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ten clean technology predictions for 2010]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now, as each year comes to a close, we've been issuing predictions for the coming one. While we certainly acknowledge we've not necessarily gotten each one right in years past, a great number of our predictions have proved prescient (see Eight cleantech developments to watch for in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:38:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Need to know: Toyota bonus cuts ... Future profits down ... DHL relocation ...]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Retail sales: A survey by the CBI showed that retail sales had risen at their fastest pace in two years during November and also showed that retailers expect a further rise next month. The gauge of sales rose to 13 in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:10:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hedge Funds Set For Rebound to Pre-crisis Level: MS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Investment flows into hedge funds have turned net positive and the sector is heading toward having assets under management of around $1.75 trillion by year-end, according to Morgan Stanley.That would take them back up to levels last seen in the second quarter of 2007, it said.The investment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:45:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Grid insulates itself against regulatory shocks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Grid is Britain's biggest utility. It is also the best-performing — over the past six months at least. Shares in the electricity transmission and gas distribution group, which is also a big player in the US, have gained more than 6 per cent since May — against a 3...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:29:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Geithner, Under Fire, Defends AIG Bailout]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Lawder and Emily Kaiser WASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended on Thursday the costly bailout of AIG and urged swift regulatory reform to safeguard the economy from the failure of big financial firms. Before Congress' Joint Economic Committee Geithner faced fierce criticism of his role...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:34:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[S&P quits Australian retail market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUICK SUMMARY | FULL STORY By a staff reporter Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has announced it will quit the Australian retail market, limiting its advice to wholesale investors after Australia's corporate watchdog said it would make ratings agencies more accountable for the advice they give. While announcing it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:53:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[S&P Withdraws Aussie Licence Application]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Credit ratings issued by Standard & Poor's will no longer be available to Australian retail investors from January 1.The global ratings agency says it has withdrawn its retail licence application to preserve its analytical independence.It follows recent moves by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC to make ratings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digital economy bill promises action on piracy, games and ITV regional news]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/digital-economy-bill-promises-action/20886/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Bill offers illegal filesharing clampdown, tougher rules on video game age ratings and powers for Ofcom over ITV regional news    A clampdown on unlawful online file-sharing, a push for the switchover to digital radio in 2015, tougher laws to stop children getting hold of violent video...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:58:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FSA to Curb Banker Bonuses - Darling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - City regulators are to be given new powers to stop bankers receiving bonuses that "would cause instability" to the financial system, Chancellor Alistair Darling said in a newspaper interview Sunday.Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph he said banking needed to change and that financiers had to see...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:45:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/11/08/weekend-round-up-7/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â£165bn loan keeps Lloyds afloat Lloyds Banking is being sustained by Â£165bn in loans and guarantees from the Bank of England -- approaching the Â£200m of quantitative easing allocated to support the UK economy. This should, says Lloyds, be set against the context of its Â£1trn balance sheet, but its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:58:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Need to know: Segro sells site ... L'Oreal prettier ... Skype pact]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/news-analysis/segro-sells-site-loreal-prettier/19420/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Inflation: Annual input price inflation for British manufacturers rose at an annual rate of 0.1 per cent in October, the first rise since February. Factory gate inflation also picked up, rising 1.7 per cent on the year in October, up from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CRTC says no to Globalive, for now]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalive does not meet Canadian ownership and control requirements and cannot therefore set up shop as Canada's fourth national cellphone company, the CRTC says. The regulator on Thursday found that the Toronto-based company, which is backed by Egypt's Orascom and had plans to launch service in Toronto and Calgary this...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Centrica sells stake in wind farms to finance Â£725m Lincs project]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday 29 October 2009 Construction on the 270MW Lincs wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire is set to begin next year after developer Centrica sold off 50% of three other wind farms, it emerged yesterday (October 29). The Lincs scheme, which will be situated eight kilometres off the coast...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:34:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:59:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retribution or reform?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/news-analysis/retribution-reform/17012/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Feinberg, the so-called US "pay tsar", is being congratulated for ordering the financial institutions still receiving US taxpayer assistance to slash their executive compensation by an average of 50 per cent. While understandable, the move may well be counterproductive. Feinberg, appointed the special master of compensation by the Obama...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:47:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[For King and country]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some very radical prescriptions for dealing with the banking sector to avoid another financial crisis of the magnitude of the one just experienced are flowing in the UK from the most authoritative of sources. That the UK is producing the most revolutionary of responses perhaps isn't surprising, given how badly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:29:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Need to know: Burberry sales up ... Diageo shares down ... Fresnillo output rises ...]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/news-analysis/burberry-sales-diageo-shares-fresnillo/15852/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Unemployment: Official figures showed that the number of young people out of work has fallen from 947,000 to 946,000 in the three months to August, from 947,000 last time, as overall unemployment rose by a less than expected 88,000 to 2.47...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:00:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[House GOP Warns Obama on Network Neutrality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/house-pwarns-obama-network-neutrality/14322/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a familiar refrain from previous regulatory wars over the Internet, House Minority Leader John Boehner and House Republican whip Eric Cantor tell Obama new network neutrality rules proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will stifle investment in networks.The House Republican leadership warned President Obama Oct. 2 that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:38:31 -0700</pubDate>
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