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FTSE ends 3.3 percent lower (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The top share index closed down 3.3 percent on Thursday, tracking falls on Wall Street as weak U.S. jobless figures added to the recessionary woes, with commodities the biggest losers, while banks were mixed and retailers rose.
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Turkey plans precautionary IMF deal (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Turkey is set to agree to a precautionary stand-by deal with the IMF that will give it access to tap $20-40 billion (13-27 billion pounds) in funds to weather a global credit crisis, a ruling party source told Reuters on Thursday.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-20 01:15 Chi-X may open exchange in Singapore in 2009 -paper (Interactive Investor)
SINGAPORE, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Chi-X, which operates a pan-European equities trading platform that has captured a 20 percent share of trading in FTSE 100 stocks, wants to open an exchange in Singapore as early as mid-2009, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Chi-X will target big funds and institutions and is likely to offer trading in large cap index component stocks for a start, Singapore's ...
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Emerging markets hit by flight from risk (Financial Times)
Emerging markets and their currencies sold off on Thursday after a downward shift in risk appetite drove wary foreign investors into repatriating their funds.
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NAPF chair calls for more long-dated Govt gilts in PBR (Money Marketing Online)
National Association of Pension Funds chairman Chris Hitchen has called on Chancellor Alistair Darling to announce the Government will issue more long-dated gilts in Mondays pre-Budget report. ...
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Vodafone keeps FTSE 100 in positive territory (Guardian Unlimited)
Mobile phone group Vodafone is keeping the leading index in positive territory, ahead of today's key unemployment figures and Bank of England inflation report. The FTSE 100 is up 6.59 points at 4253.28, but nearly 15 points of the rise is due to Vodafone, up 6.7p to 121.7p after yesterday's results, which have been received positively by the market. Citigroup repeated its buy rating ...
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FTSE slides 1.6 percent as U.S. outlook darkens (Tiscali)
LONDON (Reuters) - The top share index was down 1.6 percent by midday on Thursday, as dire forecasts for the U.S. economy led to sharp falls in commodity prices, denting energy and mining companies.
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FTSE plunges as Republicans bid to block US bail-out plans (Evening Standard)
THE FTSE-100 Index tumbled below the 4000 barrier today as traders sold shares across the world. London shares fell more than 200 points in the last few minutes of trading last night as Wall Street fell heavily.
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Barclays Canada launches new series of ETFs (Banking Business Review)
Barclays Global Investors Canada has announced the launch of iShares Portfolio Builder Funds, a series of new funds that reportedly give investors and advisors a new way to approach portfolio construction and asset allocation while managing risks with less cost and less hassle than before.
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U.S. jobs data miserable as regional factories slump (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The number of American workers on the unemployment rolls surged to the highest in a quarter century and a regional manufacturing gauge slumped as U.S. economic misery intensified, new reports showed on Thursday.
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