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POPSBiofuel Caused Food Crisis This leaked report will put the cat amongst the pigeons, coming just ahead of the G-8 leaders meeting in Hokkaido where food prices will be a main topic of discssion.
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POPSIllinois To Sue Countrywide And CEO Mozilo This is the first known case of a state authority charging Countrywide, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, for actions related to the housing crisis. It also comes on the same day the company's shareholders are expected to vote on its sale to Bank of America.
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POPSNYSE Euronext Beats LSE To Doha Deal The deal with NYSE Euronext is part of Qatar’s master-plan for revamping its financial architecture as it aims to raise the standards of its stock market and banking system in anticipation of windfall from gas exports in the coming years that will double government revenues.
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POPSPaulson Urges Stronger Fed Role On Wall St. Reiteration of the thrust of the Treasury's blueprint from earlier this year as Washington's tries to work out how to get out of the situation the Fed created by flooding the banks with lifeboat liquidity.
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POPSProposal For A New IMF Role: SWF Manager This column argues that an appropriate new role for the IMF would be to manage a significant part of the new surplus countries’ sovereign wealth funds. Nothing if not an imaginative idea.
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POPSChinese Stock Markets Tank Last time the Shanghai market plunged like this it triggered a global sell off of equities. Certainly markets everywhere are increasingly worried by inflation.