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    <title>US spending spree sends pound soaring against dollar</title>
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    <description>The dollar collapsed after traders gave the thumbs down to US Federal Reserve plans for a drastic $1 trillion spending spree to revive America’s economy</description>
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    <description>THE FTSE 100 index has endured its worst year since its creation in 1985. The credit crunch has brought a bank lending drought with profound effects on the financial system and the real economy, bursting the bubble in share prices as well as property prices.</description>
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    <description>Former Fannie Mae chief executive Daniel Mudd says he wished he said "no" to more of the things Fannie was asked to do, but did not apologise for any role he may have had in the collapse of the mortgage finance giant</description>
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    <dc:date>2008-10-24T13:10:58Z</dc:date>
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    <title>One chance for Lloyds’ owners to ditch this rotten deal</title>
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    <description>If Eric Daniels, Lloyds’ introverted chief executive, really thinks that the Government, with over 40%, is “just another name on the shareholder register” he ought to get out more</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Analysis: &lt;/b&gt;Hank Paulson is to some an unstoppable hero capable of saving his country from certain economic doom, but to others he is as an un-American leftist agent</description>
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    <description>It would be pleasant to think that markets move smoothly from one equilibrium position to another but they don’t</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Finance:&lt;/strong&gt; US regulators look set to bow to political and public pressure and block millions of dollars in severance payouts to the chiefs of sticken mortgage finance firms Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae</description>
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    <description>No wonder bankers take outrageous risks. If they come off, they can go and set up their own charitable foundation, and if they fail, everyone else pays the bill</description>
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    <description>Barack Obama has turned his attention on the big pay-offs tipped for senior executives at mortgage finance giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which are being bailed out by public money</description>
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    <title>Meet Hank, the £110bn gambler who took on the credit crunch</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Profile:&lt;/strong&gt; Nationalising America's mortgage backers was a hugely bold move for a right-wing US Treasury Secretary. We may all have reason to be grateful to Hank Paulson</description>
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    <description>The financial crisis at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has claimed its first British scalp, with Old Mutual chief executive Jim Sutcliffe quitting</description>
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    <description>The accounts at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were described as a "house of cards" by a senior US Republican senator just as the first class action was being filed</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Markets: &lt;/strong&gt;The London Stock Exchange said yesterday's breakdown was down to a software fault rather than high trading volumes as it returned to business as usual</description>
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    <description>It was inevitable the financial sector would lead the charge on the stock market today, in response to the US Government’s decision to rescue mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a cash injection in excess of £100 million</description>
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    <title>Paulson lets incoming president pick up bill</title>
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    <description>The political cycle in the United States played a key part in the decision to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with the US Treasury saying that the final fate of the pair would be determined by the next administration</description>
    <dc:date>2008-09-08T08:43:06Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Analysis: Cautious optimism that market is easing at last</title>
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    <description>Spirits were lifted in the City with a rare burst of good news after a year of almost unremitting gloom</description>
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    <description>Bank is to advise US Treasury on whether home finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need more capital</description>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T11:56:35Z</dc:date>
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    <title>How the credit crunch saved Sarah from herself</title>
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    <description>As Sarah Skelding's situation demonstrates, the problem of the housing crisis is not the difficulty in getting mortgage finance, but the fact that houses are grossly over-priced</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-31T09:03:14Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Security regulators in the US have extended an emergency rule to curb the short selling of major firms' stocks</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-30T09:31:28Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Comment: Bank profits and mortgage pain</title>
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    <description>The worse than expected fall in profits at Lloyds TSB and heavy bad debt charge is further evidence of the scale of damage done by the credit crunch to high-street lenders</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-30T10:08:59Z</dc:date>
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    <title>UK has $28bn in Fannie and Freddie</title>
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    <description>The search is on in the City and Mayfair for the holders of up to &amp;pound;15 billion of bonds held in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the distressed US mortgage giants</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-21T14:55:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Divorce is up, personal trainers down</title>
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    <description>Last week, in the wake of the near-implosion of mortgage insurer Fannie Mae, and with rumours swirling about the fate of Lehman Brothers, where the stock has plummeted 70 per cent, I got an email from a friend</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-21T07:59:18Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Freddie Mac plan to boost coffers with a £5bn shares sale</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23517672-freddie-mac-plan-to-boost-coffers-with-a-5bn-shares-sale.do</link>
    <description>Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac is reportedly planning an ambitious share sale worth as much as £5bn to raise badly needed funds</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-18T07:46:43Z</dc:date>
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    <title>America hopes it will be Super Hank to the rescue</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23517735-america-hopes-it-will-be-super-hank-to-the-rescue.do</link>
    <description>As the American economy continues its steep decline and banks and other institutions fall victim to the Credit Crunch, Henry "Hank" Paulson is shaping up to be a true super-hero</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-18T11:16:47Z</dc:date>
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    <title>It's time to bid farewell to Fannie and Freddie</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23517335-its-time-to-bid-farewell-to-fannie-and-freddie.do</link>
    <description>You may not have heard of the Federal National Mortgage Association, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, but if you haven't heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nicknames for these two vast businesses, you certainly will</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-17T10:52:18Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Dollar and shares dive as global worries grow</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23516510-dollar-and-shares-dive-as-global-worries-grow.do</link>
    <description>The dollar tanked and London plunged deeper into the bear market on growing concerns over the state of the global economy</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-15T12:57:23Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Asian banks hit by debt held in mortgage giants</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23516392-asian-banks-hit-by-debt-held-in-mortgage-giants.do</link>
    <description>Asian stock markets dived amid the clearest signs yet of global contagion from the crisis at US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-15T08:43:03Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A dilemma for the Fed on rescue mission</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23515975-a-dilemma-for-the-fed-on-rescue-mission.do</link>
    <description>The dilemma faced by the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury, therefore, is not whether the agencies should be rescued, but how best to do it</description>
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    <title>US pondering £2,500bn 'Rock-style' bailout</title>
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    <description>The US government may be forced into a bailout of their two largest mortgage companies, FreddieMac and Fannie Mae</description>
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