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	<title>Stock Market News &#38; Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks &#187; Credit Crunch</title>
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		<title>India’s Reliability Provides a Razor Thin Edge Over China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Hutchinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Martin Hutchinson
Contributing Editor
With sky-high growth potential, China and India are the two  markets no investor can afford to miss out on. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re ...

Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomel...]]></description>
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		<title>Why South Korea is set to Become the Biggest Economic Story of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Money Morning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where should you put your money in  2008? And more importantly, how can you make money in 2008? These are not easy questions to answer. With the credit crunch  sending shock waves around the globe,...

Money Morning is here to help investors profit han...]]></description>
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		<title>Is the euro area facing a credit crunch or a credit squeeze?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two channels through which the present credit crisis can affect economic activity. The first is prices, making credit more costly, and the second is quantities, making it scarcer. Dearer credit is called a "credit squeeze" and while scarcer credit is called "credit crunch". The euro area seems to be suffering neither of the two, at least for the time being.<br /><br /><a href="http://new.goldmau.com/article.php?id=295">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Financial Groups In Trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Teo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Financial Groups In Trouble
The impact of the credit crunch saw two banks and a financial and industrial group fail on Friday in three different countries in the most damaging day so far since the crisis started last August.US banking regulators on Friday swooped in to take over mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc, the second-largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Business Loses Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Teo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confidence levels among the top end of Japanese business is at a four year low as companies forecast lower earnings for the first time in seven years.
At the same time big companies say they will lift capital expenditure 2.4% over the coming financial year (which ends March 31, 2009 in Japan), compared to a forecast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ: Pinched Consumers Scramble for Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trader Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise here - I mentioned in the fall the path for "no more house ATM for you" American consumers would be credit cards first, drain 401ks (whatever they actually invested, which is very little) second, beg borrow steal (pawn) next, and away we go...]]></description>
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		<title>Financials offer good value compared to resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[




Investors have been surprised by the  FTSE/JSE All Share Index’s strong rally of 24,9% since the market’s low on 23  January 2008. What is even more surprising is the large difference in the  improvement of the major sub-indices. Resources companies have rallied by an  incredible 44,8% on the back of only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bittersweet Tale of Two Worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 









When Americans first  celebrated Memorial Day, our nation was split in two — North and  South.
Similarly, our planet  today is divided in two separate worlds — East and West.
They&#8217;re not at war. But in  the never-ending battle for economic wealth and hegemony, the chasm between them  couldn&#8217;t be deeper: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (May 12 – 18, 2008)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/current-market-news/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-may-12-%e2%80%93-18-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 08:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity bulls experienced another good week based on the viewpoint that the worst of the credit crisis might be behind us. A further improvement in investor sentiment and increased risk appetite caused market participants to cast aside a mixed bag of ec...]]></description>
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		<title>The Only &#8220;Win-Win&#8221; Investment I know of &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/gold-markets/the-only-win-win-investment-i-know-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Edelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold&#8217;s precipitous tumble from its record-high of $1,038 set on March 17 down to the recent $850 level has lots of people asking, &#8220;Is gold&#8217;s bull market over?&#8221;
My answer: No! Not by a long shot!
I know you&#8217;ve been getting an earful from the talking-head ninnies about how the long-running commodity bull is getting short of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Things I&#8217;m Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trader Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of these items can be filed under the heading of "things the market doesn't care about as it races upward, trusting everything will be fine in 6 months" :)  Myself, I am fascinated with the dichotomy between the real economy and the stock market e...]]></description>
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		<title>Citigroup First Quarter Update, As Promised</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Brand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JoJo writes:"Now that Citigroup has posted its first quarter earning for 2008, do you still stand by your original analysis, or you think you have to revise it?"Thanks for getting my butt in gear for the update I promised, JoJo.As many of you may know,...]]></description>
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