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<title>EU Politics Today: EU Banking News</title>
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<title>Mortgage drought deepens on 32% lending fall</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179425805</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 22:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  that lenders&apos; funding shortages was hampering the mortgage market and indicated that the Government needed  ...  cent target. Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at Global Insight, said: &quot;It is  ...
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<title>Infrastructure&apos;s era of bumper returns is over</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179425382</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 22:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  only in the developing world, but in Europe and the US. As people become wealthier  ...  sector to fill the funding gap. Consequently, banks and money managers are creating funds to  ...  Infrastructure funds are simply doing what many mortgage borrowers were doing up until last year.  ...
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<title>&apos;Real money&apos; muscles in on loans</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179425380</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 22:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the credit squeeze, as well as the banks that syndicated the debt and are increasingly  ...  default. Dan Gardner, manager of the M&amp;G European Loan fund, said pension funds accounted for  ...
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<title>Iran has two-week deadline for nuclear answer</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179424789</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the nuclear crisis, after talks with the EU foreign policy chief ended in stalemate. Iran&apos;s  ...  uranium enrichment, while the United States and European Union have imposed unilateral measures against its banks. The main package presented by Solana in  ...
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<title>InBev CEO Brito: a &apos;no-frills, no-thrills&apos; cost-cutter who says he&apos;ll buy his own beer, thanks</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179424719</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an American style compared to the Western European standard,&quot; said Kris Kippers, an analyst at  ...  put him in touch with Brazilian investment banker and billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, who told  ...
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<title>Investors rush to join the emerging property boom</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179424212</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  middle class and the opening of local mortgage markets property in developing economies is on  ...  major pension funds in the US and Europe found that portfolio managers want to commit  ...
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<title>InBev CEO Brito: Brazil to Belgium to Bud</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179423107</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an American style compared to the Western European standard,&quot; said Kris Kippers, an analyst at  ...  put him in touch with Brazilian investment banker and billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, who told  ...
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<title>British Brown pledges Palestinian aid</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179421964</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  peace, Brown pledged support for a new mortgage finance authority which he said would help  ...  the Middle East Quartet&apos;s envoy, representing the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the  ...
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<title>Gulf banking sector faces acute human resource crunch</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179421759</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 21:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and some hedge funds, are unexpected beneficiaries of the meltdown of the US subprime mortgage market. While US and European banks are shedding tens of thousands to shore up earnings, Gulf banks face a crisis  ...
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<title>K-Dow unit to be based in Michigan</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179419820</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the sources told the newspaper. Frankfurt: The European Central Bank is trying to convince people  ...  an anxious public on Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people  ...  Henry Paulson said the number of troubled banks will increase as they struggle to cope  ...
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<title>British PM pledges Palestinian aid on Mideast tour</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179419284</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  peace, Brown pledged support for a new mortgage finance authority which he said would help  ...  the Middle East Quartet&apos;s envoy, representing the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the  ...
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<title>Rally gives investors hope of real turning point</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179418027</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 19:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  week to 18 July 2008. The US banking sector added 23 per cent over two  ...  that the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage groups are insolvent. Investors also took heart  ...  to interest rate rises in Australia and Europe. Investors welcomed stronger results than anticipated by  ...
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<title>EU Calls for Balanced Deal at Crunch World Trade Talks</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179417794</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 19:49 GMT</pubDate>
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... EU Calls for Balanced Deal at Crunch World  ...  to be balanced and ambitious,&quot; Barroso said. &quot;Europe cannot be the sole banker of this deal.&quot; Germany urges emerging economies  ...
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<title>Britons expect house prices to drop</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179417526</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 19:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  households in the US and other large European economies. Even though values have fallen much  ...  those polled are facing the need to remortgage their homes in the next 12 months,  ...
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<title>World&apos;s best places to invest in real estate</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179416652</link>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2008 19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  have inflation at 1%, and its local banks have stayed healthier than Western banks for  ...  than Western banks for largely avoiding toxic mortgage-backed securities. When examining markets for large-scale real  ...  flocked to developing markets such as Eastern Europe. But by the second half, and well  ...
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