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	<title>Crikey &#187; Markets</title>
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		<title>Facebook now worth $9.5 billion</title>
		<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8WKOckNML3k&pos=7</link>
		<comments>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8WKOckNML3k&pos=7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook's private shares are now for about $21 each -- a 42% increase since July -- valuing the company's common shares at $9.5 billion. Will the company go public soon?]]></description>
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		<title>Wall St conspiracy theories: a field guide</title>
		<link>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/11/12/biggest-wall-street-conspiracies?page=full</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/11/12/biggest-wall-street-conspiracies?page=full#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Goldman Sachs really a Giant Vampire Squid? Did naked short-selling kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros? <em>The Big Money</em> ranks some of the paranoid theorising going on atop the financial world's grassy knoll.]]></description>
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		<title>FBI wiretaps expose Wall Street&#8217;s seedy underbelly</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/will-hutton-wall-street-corruption</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/will-hutton-wall-street-corruption#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insider trading]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Details uncovered from FBI wire-taps of Wall St insider trading rings are like <em>The Sopranos</em>, <em>The Wire</em> and Gordon Gekko's <em>Wall Street</em> all rolled into one, complete with secret tips, kickbacks and disposable mobile phones.]]></description>
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		<title>An inconvenient truth sobers thinking on weak state of US banking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/an-inconvenient-truth-sobers-thinking-on-weak-state-of-us-banking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/an-inconvenient-truth-sobers-thinking-on-weak-state-of-us-banking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dow Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markets are not known for their consistency. Last night, the US market went up 148 points very quickly, then slid back into the red, only to close up 76 points.

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		<title>We&#8217;ve passed Wall St, next stop Hang Seng</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/business/australian-stock-market-living-in-the-past-20091102-hsme.html?autostart=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/business/australian-stock-market-living-in-the-past-20091102-hsme.html?autostart=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian stock market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian investors need to stop believing that Wall Street is god of the Australian economy, writes <b>Michael Pascoe</b>. We've survived the GFC, even if the US didn't, and our focus should be on Asia.]]></description>
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		<title>Your store? Myer lists, but can&#8217;t take a trick</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/your-store-myer-lists-but-cant-take-a-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/your-store-myer-lists-but-cant-take-a-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer shares]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/your-store-myer-lists-but-cant-take-a-trick/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Myer shares were listed under the issue price of $4.10, but opened today at $3.88 on the ASX -- a reminder that timing is everything.]]></description>
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		<title>80 years since the Great Crash</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/article/happy-anniversary-wall-street-pd20091029-xa9gt?opendocument&src=blb&is=financial%20markets&blog=keensian%20economics</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/article/happy-anniversary-wall-street-pd20091029-xa9gt?opendocument&src=blb&is=financial%20markets&blog=keensian%20economics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the 80th anniversary of the Great Wall St Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. <b>Steve Keen</b> looks at what we've learned -- if anything -- eight decades on.]]></description>
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		<title>The real estate spinners who are artificially inflating prices</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/the-real-estate-spinners-who-are-artificially-inflating-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/the-real-estate-spinners-who-are-artificially-inflating-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/the-real-estate-spinners-who-are-artificially-inflating-prices/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite its ubiquity, residential property remains one of the least transparent asset classes in Australia. Most buyers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an asset which they know very little about.]]></description>
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		<title>How Wall Street makes its billions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All the major Wall St banks' profits come from trading, but who is on the receiving loss end of trades? asks <b>Philip Greenspun</b>. Banks don't just shift Federal money around and skim off profits for themselves, do they? ]]></description>
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		<title>How to stop houses being so damn expensive</title>
		<link>http://jdereport.com.au/?p=2019</link>
		<comments>http://jdereport.com.au/?p=2019#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[first home buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=93721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia needs a solution to its rising house prices, which have jumped dramatically thanks to the laws of supply and demand, writes <b>Tom Elliot</b>. Is reducing immigration the answer?]]></description>
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		<title>Despite rebound, US still hasn&#8217;t got its housing in order</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/despite-rebound-us-still-hasnt-got-its-housing-in-order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/despite-rebound-us-still-hasnt-got-its-housing-in-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US housing market]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/despite-rebound-us-still-hasnt-got-its-housing-in-order/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stand by for the "two-speed America" story to start emerging: that's where the rebound in financial markets and on wall Street is way ahead with the sluggish wider economy, especially housing.]]></description>
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		<title>Experts get it very wrong on rentals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/experts-get-it-very-wrong-on-rentals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/experts-get-it-very-wrong-on-rentals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rental market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/experts-get-it-very-wrong-on-rentals/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rental market is fairly uncomplicated, but business journalists are commonly thinking of reasons as to why rents go up or down. This is only one reason: the number of vacant rental properties.]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund operators fiddled while investors burned</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/hedge-fund-operators-fiddled-while-investors-burned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/hedge-fund-operators-fiddled-while-investors-burned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund manager]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/hedge-fund-operators-fiddled-while-investors-burned/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The secretive world of hedge funds disclosure has been exposed in a report published in the US, which reveals that up to half of funds and managements lied in their disclosure to customers and investors.
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		<title>Dragon roars ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business/global/14chinatrade.html?_r=1&ref=global</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business/global/14chinatrade.html?_r=1&ref=global#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China isn't shrinking away into economic oblivion with the GFC but instead now holds the title of the world's biggest exporter. Seems the love for small crappy 'Made in China' trinkets by migrant workers isn't ceasing yet.]]></description>
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		<title>Knee-deep in the Myer or what?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/knee-deep-in-the-myer-or-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/knee-deep-in-the-myer-or-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer shares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nab shares]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/knee-deep-in-the-myer-or-what/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So is the Myer share issue the knock 'em down sure thing that its promoters are trying to tell us it is? Then why is a leading broker trying so hard to whip up interest? ]]></description>
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		<title>The market is up! Ergh. Who cares?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/10/08/the-stock-market-is-rebounding-big-time-should-i-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/10/08/the-stock-market-is-rebounding-big-time-should-i-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian stockmarkets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The market is rebounding, but can be up and down and all over. Should investors be concerned with day to day market events? Well, not really. Unless you're a day trader, you're investing long term.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the housing shortage, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/its-about-the-housing-shortage-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/its-about-the-housing-shortage-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graph pr0n]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing industry association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our biggest public policy problem is that we don’t have enough dwellings for people who live here, with an estimated shortage in 2008 of 34,000 dwellings. Plus, we’re importing people at a rate of knots. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reality bites global economy, again</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/reality-bites-global-economy-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/reality-bites-global-economy-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly realism is back in fashion on Wall Street and in other parts of the business world. Which is why markets across the globe are falling, quickly and sharply.]]></description>
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		<title>How a luxury item helped the poor grow richer</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483872</link>
		<comments>http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483872#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The spread of mobile phones in the developing world has boomed thanks to micro entrepreneur programs like <a href="http://www1.grameenphone.com/">Grameenphone</a>. <em>The Economist</em> tracks how mobiles have influenced fish prices, political corruption and election outcomes.]]></description>
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		<title>Corporates clear the ASX trash on Grand Final Eve</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/corporates-clear-the-asx-trash-on-grand-final-eve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/corporates-clear-the-asx-trash-on-grand-final-eve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babcock and Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consolidated Media Holdings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fortescue Metals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professor allan fels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toll Holdings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wesfarmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Computershare to Macquarie, the time-honoured practice of dropping bad news when no-one is looking was on display again last Friday. So here's what you may have missed...]]></description>
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		<title>Telstra split paves way for better competition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/2009/09/24/telstra-move-shows-value-of-strong-divestiture-provisions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/2009/09/24/telstra-move-shows-value-of-strong-divestiture-provisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Bartlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divestiture provisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra split]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Practices Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government’s plan for Telstra appears to require a form of divestiture, says <b>Andrew Bartlett</b>. It would be great to have better laws -- forcing asset sales -- wherever anti-competitive behaviour exists.]]></description>
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		<title>Rich pickings: luxury firms retreat to the elite</title>
		<link>http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=bca8f32534ebba2c800a4202b445828a4acfcfc1&rf=bm&source=features_box4</link>
		<comments>http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=bca8f32534ebba2c800a4202b445828a4acfcfc1&rf=bm&source=features_box4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graph pr0n]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gucci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luxury goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This videographic from <em>The Economist</em> shows why the producers of luxury goods -- who briefly flirted with the cashed-up aspirational middle class -- are likely to retreat to their traditional super-rich clients.]]></description>
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		<title>Nest eggs bounce back</title>
		<link>http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/6085409/super-rebounds-as-market-surges/</link>
		<comments>http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/6085409/super-rebounds-as-market-surges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Super funds have just seen the sixth straight month of gains after six months of falls, says <b>Shane Wright</b>. But not before the uncertainty of the market has changed retirees' approach to their superannuation.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign buyers blow out the housing bubble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/the-role-of-foreign-buyers-in-the-ever-inflating-housing-bubble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/the-role-of-foreign-buyers-in-the-ever-inflating-housing-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mirvac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The causes of Australia's ever-inflating housing bubble are many but one hasn't received a lot of attention: the influence of overseas buyers since the government relaxed its foreign property investment rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Car sales snap out of reverse</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/car-sales-snap-out-of-reverse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/car-sales-snap-out-of-reverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automotive industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small and medium business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the ending of some tax assistance for small to medium businesses on June 30, car sales jumped up in August.]]></description>
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