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<title><![CDATA[Hungary struggles to offset forint rise [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Hungary's undercapitalised domestic companies are struggling to achieve the productivity needed to offset rises in its currency, which hit a record high against the euro this week.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Consumers seek ways to tighten credit [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Consumers are turning to products that can improve their credit rating or secure credit without a good rating, as lenders clamp down on access to mortgages, loans and credit cards in the UK.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:10:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Battle over MG badge shifts up a gear [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - A descendant of an English motoring dynasty is taking on China's largest carmaker in a battle over one of Britain's iconic brands - the MG sportscar.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:05:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clock ticking on WPP bid for TNS]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - WPP was on Friday night considering whether to take its bid for Taylor Nelson Sofres hostile as its target received mixed news on its preferred merger with GfK, the German market research group.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BA narrows service gap with rivals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - British Airways has overcome the chaotic opening of its showpiece London base at Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport and has significantly improved the punctuality of its services during the last two months.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Clearing' plan for London bursaries [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - London parents who cannot afford school fees could in the future use a "central clearing system" to transform their prospects of finding a bursary among the slew on offer from the capital's private schools, the Financial Times has learned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:10:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crucial test results delayed [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The results of crucial school tests are to be delayed because of problems at the company paid by the government to mark them.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:10:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vodafone wins £2bn tax battle]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The world's biggest mobile phone group has won a billion-pound battle with Revenue & Customs over the tax on one of its foreign subsidiaries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UK indicators feel the gravity of situation [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Economists may still be debating whether the UK will endure a full-blown recession but this week made it pretty clear what the majority of investors and consumers believe.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sales fall accelerates at John Lewis]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - John Lewisbrought the curtain down on a week of gloom for Britain's shopkeepers on Friday with its worst sales performance this year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FSA orchestrates old-fashioned rescue for B&B [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - As the credit storm has swept through the City, older bankers have fondly recalled the days when financial crises were resolved behind closed doors at the Bank of England with troubled lenders rescued on the strength of a handshake.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Former WSJ editor heads race at Washington Post]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The next editor of the Washington Post will be mandated to accelerate the combination of its print and online divisions, according to people familiar with a search that is expected to end early next week.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TPG attacked for abandoning B&B [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The City rounded on TPG Capital on Friday for abandoning Bradford & Bingley and forcing its shareholders to fund a further attempt to recapitalise the struggling mortgage lender, the third since mid-May.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Long View: ECB takes on autocrats' mantle to slay inflation [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - "Always inflation comes gradually; is recognised too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile . . . Anywhere Americans shop, they can,if they probe, find the outer world pressing on their prices." Theodore H. White]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:45:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rampant oil overshadows falling metals [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Trading was dominated during the week by surging oil prices, which touched a record high on Thursday of $146.69 a barrel in London.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Europe's stocks end week in negative terrain [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Steel stocks lost their gleam in Europe as fears about slowing demand for cars tarnished the whole sector.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[N Rock rivals hit at aid package [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Competitors and former investors in Northern Rock have filed a stream of complaints with European antitrust regulators, who are looking into the legality of the government's restructuring aid package for the stricken mortgage lender.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[French regulator fines SocGen record &#8364;4m [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Senior executives at Société Générale faced renewed criticism after France's banking regulator slapped its biggest-ever fine for risk control failures on the bank following its inquiry into a &#8364;4.9bn rogue trading scandal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:35:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forestry funds leave others in the shade [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Money may not grow on trees but investors who placed funds in British forests last year have seen returns far outstrip those from any of the traditional asset classes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:15:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia taps into other mineral riches]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Abdallah Dabbagh likens Saudi Arabia's industrial sector to a stool with two legs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:15:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Commerzbank ends pursuit of Citi's retail arm [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The contest for Citigroup's German retail banking arm narrowed when Commerzbank dropped out of the running, leaving Deutsche Bank as the only potential domestic buyer for an asset that has also attracted foreign interest.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Markets succumb to economic gravity [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Even by their usual standards of unpredictability, asset markets have had a funny 12 months.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:30:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrated Indian field marshal with a razor-sharp wit [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - It was February 1942 on the Sittang River in Burma.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:30:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[G8 faces pressure to raise food aid [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - The Group of Eight richest nations will come under strong pressure at their annual summit in Hokkaido next week to boost food aid sharply, after the Asian Development Bank added its voice to those warning that rising prices pose a grave threat to the world's poor.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:25:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brussels in full inquiry into BHP bid for Rio]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - A proposed $170bn takeover of miner Rio Tinto by Australia's BHP Billiton hit a roadblock on Friday when European competition regulators announced an in-depth inquiry into the deal after initial investigations raised "serious doubts".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canberra denies blocking Chinese investment]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan on Friday sought to quash speculation that Canberra was trying to block or slow down Chinese investment in mining.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:15:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Activist investors reined in by disclosure rules]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Investors in investment trusts look set to get a better price for selling their shares, after the government this week changed the rules on the disclosure of shareholders' positions in companies.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anthony Bolton: What investors must look for in captains of industry]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - A very important consideration when buying a company's shares is the quality of the management.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Difficult decision on debt vs funds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - My wife and I bought a house in 2006 for £170,000 on a two-year fixed-rate mortgage of 4.99 per cent.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iran sends word on nuclear talks [at Financial Times]]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial Times - Iran on Friday sent a written response to an offer from the world's leading powers regarding its nuclear programme, amid hopes in the west that Tehran would give enough ground to allow formal negotiations to begin.]]></description>
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