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  <title><![CDATA[After Greece Exits The Euro, What's Next? An Illustrated Guide To 5 Possible Scenarios]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Moving swiftly from the realm of tin foil-hat conspiracy to a bullet point being openly talked about as a fait accompli by international financiers, an exit by Greece from the European common currency dominated conversation this week. But what would actually happen if Greece left the euro?.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345354/20120525/euro-crisis-greece-exit-drachma-default-geuro.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:52:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chinese Manufacturing Decreased in May]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chinese manufacturing weakened in May, the seventh consecutive month the figure has been in the red, according to a preliminary reading of the HSBC manufacturing purchasing managers index.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:19:17 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Commodities Battered On Global Sell-Off, Strong Dollar]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Agricultural commodities, and in particular so-called &quot;softs&quot; like sugar and coffee, fell hard Wednesday as investors, eyeing the euro zone crisis, priced in the potential fallout on consumption of U.S. farm exports.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344560/20120523/commodities-gold-oil-sugar-cocoa.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:23:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gold Standard Redux: Swiss Parliament Debates Creating ‘Gold Franc’]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Swiss parliament debated Tuesday whether to create a gold-backed national coin to float in parallel with the Swiss franc, becoming the first national legislature in decades to consider issuing a currency based on a commodity.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344361/20120523/gold-standard-swiss-franc.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344361/20120523/gold-standard-swiss-franc.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:47:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Euro Recovers Monday On Technicals, But Greek Exit Shadows Trade]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The euro-to-dollar exchange rate recovered Monday from the lows seen late  Friday, when the European currnecy nearly touched multiyear lows. Still, the rise appeared to spring mostly from technical retracements, as tradersbelieve Greece will soon be forced to exit the currency union.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343620/20120521/euro-usd-chf-trade-currency.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:38:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan Cancels Share Buybacks Amid Regulator Heat]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) suspended its share-buyback program on Monday, a move CEO Jamie Dimon said was intended to preserve capital.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343530/20120521/jpmorgan-dimon-buyback-dividends-loss.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343530/20120521/jpmorgan-dimon-buyback-dividends-loss.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Japan Considers Using Central Bank To Circumvent Iran Oil Payment Embargo]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A day after the largest bank in Japan agreed to comply with a U.S. District Court order barring it from doing business with Iran, bankers and government officials in Tokyo are reportedly trying to find a way to circumvent the commercial embargo.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342889/20120518/oil-united-states-japan-central-bank-iran.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342889/20120518/oil-united-states-japan-central-bank-iran.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:08:23 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[China, US Solar Industry React To Commerce Dept Imposing Tariffs On Chinese Solar Panels]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed hefty tariffs on Chinese solar panel imports, a move the Obama administration is saying comes as a response to uncompetitive Chinese export practices.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342822/20120518/china-solar-panel-tariff-suntech-trina.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342822/20120518/china-solar-panel-tariff-suntech-trina.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:19:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cofina Bonds, Highly Popular Muni, Likely To See Downgrade: Wells Fargo]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A highly popular tranche of municipal debt issues is likely to feel the sting of a multi-notch ratings downgrade soon, a Wells Fargo credit strategist warned. The downgrade would wreak havoc on the portfolio strategy of a substantial number of investors in tax-exempt debt, and would also likely have noisy political repercussions in Puerto Rico, the municipality whose bonds are in the crosshairs.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342680/20120518/puerto-rico-cofina-bond-downgrade-moodys.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342680/20120518/puerto-rico-cofina-bond-downgrade-moodys.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:06:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spanish Banks Downgraded By Moody's In Latest Euro Crisis Tremor]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Rating agency Moody&#039;s Investors Services sent yet another shockwave down the spine of the European financial industry on Thursday afternoon, downgrading 16 Spanish banks after equity markets had closed in New York.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342458/20120517/spanish-banks-downgrade-santander-bbva.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342458/20120517/spanish-banks-downgrade-santander-bbva.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:46:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gold Fields Limited Net Up 70 Percent, Beats Wall Street Estimates]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI), the world&#039;s fourth largest gold miner, said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 70 percent, beating Wall Street&#039;s expectations. But the Johannesburg, South Africa-based miner also said its extraction capacity in 2012 will be at the lower end of its previously stated range.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342321/20120517/gold-fields-earnings-south-africa.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342321/20120517/gold-fields-earnings-south-africa.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:33:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan's 'London Whale' To Be Gone By Year-End: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Bruno Iksil, the trader behind the $2-billion-and-counting loss at New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM) that has been the talk of New York and Washington for the past few days, will be leaving the bank within the year, the New York Times&#039; Dealbook blog reported Wednesday.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341948/20120516/jp-morgan-london-whale-fired.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:29:18 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fed Minutes Suggest Further Easing More Likely]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve policymakers seemed more likely Wednesday to recommend further monetary easing than just a month ago, as minutes of a Fed rate-setting panel detailed shaky faith in recent indicators of economic recovery.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341935/20120516/federal-reserve-minutes-qe3.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341935/20120516/federal-reserve-minutes-qe3.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:51:01 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shell Joins Asian Co.'s in Huge Canadian Drilling Venture]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A coalition of companies has joined Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell in an unprecedented, landmark joint-venture to exploit natural gas resources in Western Canada.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341847/20120516/shell-lng-canda-drill-china-energy.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341847/20120516/shell-lng-canda-drill-china-energy.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:37:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI Investigating JPMorgan Chase: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation of a huge trading loss incurred by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341406/20120515/jp-morgan-fbi-obama-bloomberg-senate.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341406/20120515/jp-morgan-fbi-obama-bloomberg-senate.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:47:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan Shareholders' Meeting Ends With A Whimper As Reform Proposals Are Rejected]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The annual shareholder&#039;s meeting Tuesday of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), widely expected to feature fiery denunciations of leaders at the nation&#039;s biggest bank, could hardly have been quieter or more management-friendly.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341364/20120515/jp-morgan-shareholders-meeting-protest-dimon.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341364/20120515/jp-morgan-shareholders-meeting-protest-dimon.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:28:58 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Business Inventory Data Disappoint In March]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. business inventories rose in March at a slower pace than economists predicted, even as sales rallied, a datapoint that shows firms have not been as confident as economists and equity investors that the current economic recovery will proceed at a firm pace.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341299/20120515/business-inventories-economy-gdp.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341299/20120515/business-inventories-economy-gdp.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:13:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bank Stocks Hit By Panic Selling On Greece Crisis, JPMorgan Losses]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Global bank stocks fell Monday as investors panicked that a weekend electoral impasse in Greece might be a prelude to that country to leave the 17-member euro zone.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340912/20120514/bank-stock-jp-morgan-greece-sell.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340912/20120514/bank-stock-jp-morgan-greece-sell.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rally Into Safety Sees Traders Drop Oil, Euro and Stocks for Govt. Paper]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The almighty dollar was the investment of choice Monday morning, as international investors - in a classic flight to safety after various major news breaks last week - piled into greenback-denominated cash and cash equivalents.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340813/20120514/stock-market-treasuries-bunds-euro-gold.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340813/20120514/stock-market-treasuries-bunds-euro-gold.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:47:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Politicians, SEC, Fitch Draw Bead On JPMorgan]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), which just revealed at least $2 billion in losses on questionable trading. The downgrade came on the same day that a U.S. senator called for a Congressional probe of the giant bank and the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed that her agents are eyeing the money center&#039;s hedging activity.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340230/20120511/jp-morgan-loss-corker-fitch.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340230/20120511/jp-morgan-loss-corker-fitch.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:58:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[How Did JPMorgan Lose Billions In One Trade? London 'Whale' Explained]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM) shocked the markets Thursday by announcing it would be booking mammoth losses in the range of $3 billion this quarter as a result of a hedged bet gone bad. But what exactly was that bet?.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340153/20120511/jp-morgan-loss-london-whale.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340153/20120511/jp-morgan-loss-london-whale.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:58:28 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan Plunges After Potential $3B Loss On Derivative Trading]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of JPMorganChase (NYSE: JPM) plunged 8 percent Friday after disclosing it had lost at least $2 billion in credit default swap trading.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339761/20120510/jp-morgan-loss-london-whale.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339761/20120510/jp-morgan-loss-london-whale.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:09:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bernanke Warns Of Potential Problems With Community Banks]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking via teleconference to a Chicago bankers&#039; conference, took an uncharacteristic swipe at community banks on Thursday, suggesting that those institutions might not be as sure-footed as their balance sheets would have them appear.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339659/20120510/bernanke-speech-community-banks-health.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339659/20120510/bernanke-speech-community-banks-health.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:42:40 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Miss USA Contestants ... On A Boat!]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Tuesday afternoon, as the 51 beauties of the Miss USA pageant, which takes place in Las Vegas on June 3, balanced themselves in high heels through a bumpy cruise on the Hudson river. The sightseeing trip was equal parts publicity junket and charity event: People were invited to make a $100 donation ...]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339255/20120509/miss-usa-2012-photos.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339255/20120509/miss-usa-2012-photos.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:10:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cruising With Miss USA Contestants: A Bumpy Ride With Beauties]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The 51 beauties of the Miss USA pageant balanced themselves in high heels through a rocky cruise of the Hudson river, for a charity sightseeing trip. The event was part of a full-day media blitz in advance of the June 3 competition.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339226/20120509/miss-usa-2012-pictures.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339226/20120509/miss-usa-2012-pictures.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:02:31 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Macy's Beats Earnings Expectations But Still Disappoints Wall Street]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Macy&#039;s, Inc. (NYSE: M), the national retailer that counts department stores brands Macy&#039;s and Bloomingdale&#039;s in its portfolio, reported earnings Wednesday that exceeded expectations, but still disappointed Wall Street, which was looking for higher guidance from the company on future earnings.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339117/20120509/macys-earnings-retail-sales.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:19:40 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ABC, Univision to Start Joint Venture Cable News Network]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[ABC News and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision have announced they will be launching an English-language 24/7 news network later in the year that will be focused on the growing number of Hispanic media consumers in the United States.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338631/20120508/univision-abc-network.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:52:56 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dunkin Donuts Opens First Location In Drive To Enter India]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Following on its previous, highly-sucessful roll-out of the Dominos Pizza brand in that country, India&#039;s Jubilant FoodWorks has opened a Dunkin&#039; Donuts in New Delhi, the first store in what the company expects to be a hundred-location chain within five years. The operation is a joint venture between that company and Dunkin&#039; Brands International in the United States.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338582/20120508/dunkin-donuts-india.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:10:42 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street May Day Protesters May Have Been Unlawfully Arrested]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On May Day, the New York Police Department arrested twelve demonstrators from Occupy Wall Street -- part of a larger group of 86 people taken in that day -- for refusing to disperse from a gathering that was underway inside a city park. The problem: the demonstrators were not in a park at all when they were detained.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338191/20120507/occupy-wall-street-day-arrests.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338191/20120507/occupy-wall-street-day-arrests.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:16:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Mining Headed for a Slowdown: Citi]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Analysts at Citigroup are slashing their estimates regarding just how much mining companies globally will spend this year, suggesting the industry is headed for a substantial slowdown, the Financial Times is reporting.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338090/20120507/global-mining-slowdown-stock-market.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338090/20120507/global-mining-slowdown-stock-market.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:14:49 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Barclays Offering High-Interest Savings Account In Bid to Woo U.S. Savers]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[British bank Barclays PLC (London: BARC) is making a grand entrance into the U.S. retail banking space, debuting an online savings account this week that pays substantially more in interest to accountholders than its closest competitors.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338037/20120507/high-interest-savings-barclays.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338037/20120507/high-interest-savings-barclays.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:50:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carlyle Group IPO Appears To Be A Disappointment]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The initial public offering of private equity firm The Carlyle Group LP (Nasdaq: CG) opened slightly below the IPO price of $22 on Thursday before climbing as high as $22.39. Shortly before the closing bell, shares were trading at $22.02.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336916/20120503/carlyle-ipo-private-equity.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336916/20120503/carlyle-ipo-private-equity.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:47:16 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ECB Emerges As Less Dovish, More 'Bossy,' Than Thought]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank made a show of that organization&#039;s immense political and economic force Thursday, rattling world markets with news it had not even considered lowering benchmark euro lending rates and, more provocatively, having its top banker lecture European politicians on the eve of what are expected to be decisive election in two European countries.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336899/20120503/euro-ecb-draghi-press-conference.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336899/20120503/euro-ecb-draghi-press-conference.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:09:04 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Markets Tumble As Service Sector Activity Report For April Disappoints]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. markets went into a sustained slide after a private data release suggested growth in the services sectors was slowing down considerably.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336784/20120503/ism-services-report-index-april.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336784/20120503/ism-services-report-index-april.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:59:17 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street's May Day in New York Ends In Failed Plaza Occupation]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Activists aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York ended a day of mass street protest Tuesday by being chased out of a public plaza in Lower Manhattan by the police, in an anti-climactic conclusion to what otherwise seemed to have been a successful day for the visibility of their cause.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336302/20120502/occupy-wall-street-day-protest.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336302/20120502/occupy-wall-street-day-protest.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:47:30 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Factory Orders Drop On Faltering Aircraft Demand]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Dragged down by a precipitous slump in demand for civilian aircraft, U.S. factory orders dropped at the highest rate in three years during March, data released by the Commerce Department Wednesday morning showed.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336234/20120502/factory-orders.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:30:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Fined $257M For Chinese Oil Spill]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Houston-based oil ang gas giant ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has been fined $257 million to settle charges brought by the Chinese government following a massive oil spill. The company&#039;s Chinese venture partner, CNOOC Ltd., was also fined, to the tune of $76 million.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335804/20120501/conocophillips-china-spill-settlement.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335804/20120501/conocophillips-china-spill-settlement.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:56:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street May Day Protest Early Pictures]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In spite of organizers providing free coffee and bagels, planned May Day demonstrations across New York convened by the loosely organized movement against social and economic inequality known as &quot;Occupy Wall Street&quot; got off to a wet, slow, sleepy start.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:37:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street Faces Day Of Truth With May Day Protests]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Tuesday is May Day, the international celebration of the workers&#039; movement that for most countries means a day off with most businesses closed. In the United States, where Labor Day is in September, May 1 is a workday like any other.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335624/20120501/occupy-wall-street-day.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:39:23 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dallas, Chicago Manufacturing Data Point To Big Slowdown For April]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity indexes for April released Monday showed a further slowdown across the nation in a confirmation of a statistical trend seen in other data releases last week that points to weaker growth in the second quarter.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335112/20120430/manufacturing-economy-fed.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:39:18 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Boeing Poised To Sell $5.5B Of 737 Jets To Air Lease]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) is expected to sell 60 737 aircraft to Air Lease Corp. (NYSE: AL) in a deal with a nominal book value of about $5.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335074/20120430/boeing-737-airbus-lease.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:43:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mixed Data On Chinese Cos Intensifies Monetary Policy Guesses]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A headscratcher of a report on Chinese industrial profits intensified speculation about just what exactly central bankers in that country will come up with next as the note, by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), revealed data that both supporters and detractors of monetary easing in the world&#039;s second-largest economy will find justifies their rationale.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/334401/20120427/china-economy-2012-monetary-report-profit.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:57:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Markets Fluctuate As Press Corps Shells Bernanke]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke rattled financial markets Wednesday afternoon, as the top U.S. central banker hemmed and hawed his way through a tough round of questioning from a cadre of economic reporters.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333291/20120425/bernanke-speech-stock-market-bonds.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:16:56 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Europe's Sovereigns Rally, Retracing Monday's Losses, In Spite of Continued Econ Weakness]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The price of various European governments&#039; debt obligations rose on strong trading Tuesday following a sharp sell-off on the prior day, a dynamic that lowered the borrowing cost those countries must pay to finance their budget deficits and gave some confidence to interrelated equity markets.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332633/20120424/euro-bond-market.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:55:41 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carnage in Euro Stock Markets As Bad News Stirs Sharp Correction]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A steady drip of bad news swelled into a river of losses for European equities Monday, as stock markets across the continent -- some already battered in previous weeks -- experienced significant declines.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332059/20120423/stock-market-europe.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332059/20120423/stock-market-europe.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:32:28 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[India's Richest Man Makes $12 Billion Bet On Expanding Indian Economy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[India&#039;s richest man is using nearly all of his company&#039;s spare cash to expand the firm&#039;s petrochemical capacity, placing a solid bet that the growing consumer class in that country will continue to drive growth in the sector well into the future.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331996/20120423/india-economy-reliance-expansion.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:57:16 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Economic Snapshot: How Are We Doing?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Disturbing jobless-claims data, mixed retail-sales figures, and uninspiring housing numbers all combined to deliver a mixed-to-negative picture of the economy this past week. That makes it the third straight week economic indicators have been mostly on the negative side.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331322/20120420/economy-news-gdp.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:59:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Manufacturers Mull Returning Chinese Ops Back to US: Boston Consulting Group]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Many U.S. manufacturing firms that run Chinese plants are considering bringing those operations back home because -- in many cases -- it makes more economic sense to do so than to keep them abroad, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey of business executives released on Friday.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331255/20120420/manufacturing-jobs-production-china.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331255/20120420/manufacturing-jobs-production-china.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:54:05 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Playing The Spanish Crisis, Wall Street Bigs Leave Tracks In Distorted Markets]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In a seeming effort to profit from the latest European disaster, large investors are causing some unusual movements in the U.S. securities markets.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331106/20120420/spain-crisis-wall-street-hedge.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/331106/20120420/spain-crisis-wall-street-hedge.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:54:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley 1Q Down But Beats Street]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) on Thursday reported weaker first-quarter profit but still beat analyst expectations, which helped lift shares up more than 2 percent.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/330590/20120419/morgan-stanley-earnings.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/330590/20120419/morgan-stanley-earnings.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:10:13 EDT</pubDate>
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