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Highlights of '08: Vital ingredient missing from recovery
Take yeast, flour and water and you can ... Fund managers and economists hope the ingredients for ... Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at UK ... The markets are well stocked with cheap shares. ... However, the outlook for company earnings is not ... Financial News surveys the worst bear markets of...
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Comment: Keynes, fiscal packages and the next election
The UK Government this week became the first ... Barack Obama’s team are talking about a package ... This is all the more surprising because for ... The fact that this doctrine has been so ... The collapse of Citibank last week was an ... In this context, the British fiscal package will...
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October 'worst month on record' for stock markets
October was the worst month for world stock ... The terrible performance in October means the world's ... The worst-performing market this year of the 52 ... Other hard-hit markets, which have dropped more than ... In general terms, emerging markets fell less than ... Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard &...
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A recipe for salvation?
Few people have thought more deeply about the ... Soros argues that each US bank should work ... Likewise, the UK government has told banks in ... Soros preferred the issuance of preference share capital, ... The UK initiative, which has more teeth than ... Governments have no choice but to act in...
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Comment: Time to think the unthinkable
By all accounts, the British authorities were taken ... Investors are aware that, on its own, the ... But there remains a danger that the strengthening ... Nervousness in the equity markets, at least in ... Even sovereign wealth funds are holding back. According ... Nevertheless equities rallied this morning, on the back...
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UK bond investors bullish despite high inflation
Economists and bond fund managers expect a downturn ... The Bank of England announced today that UK ... At first glance, the announcement is further bad ... According to UK consultants Pension Capital Strategies, the ... Graeme Caughey, head of government bonds at Scottish...
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US runs in fear of Great Depression
Like most children, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of ... There was a reason for Greenspan’s early interest ... The appointment of Ben Bernanke as successor to ... That explains why the US authorities intervene, seemingly, ... The US Marshall Plan to help get Europe ... The US-led International Monetary Fund rescued Mexico from...
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