Today, 30 November 2009

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    20 1 TODAY Monday November 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Monday November 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Ripples to reach S'pore shores
    631 1  -  CHEOWXINYI DUBAI: AN EMIRATE IN CRISIS cheowxinyi@mediacorp. corns, g SINGAPORE With investors, here and around the world, united in wondering "what does Dubai mean for me?", analysts interviewed yesterday expected the Singapore stock market, which re-opens for trade today after the Hari Raya Haji or
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    Dubai fallout to hit bonuses in Singapore?
    351 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With financial markets affected by Dubai's struggle to repay its US$6O--billion ($83.2-billion) debt and, closer to home, civil servants not getting their annual variable component, should workers here expect wage payments, such as year-end bonuses, to take a hit?
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      103 1 aaf ONE BRICKATATIME... zg f W^^M^ The We Are One island of Singapore, painstakingly built by .^r j ft_t?~ J^^^^^^ha^m^*W _m_m thousandsof Singaporeans over the last four weeks, will be jr "_^^^fc^^ U__ k unveiled at spm today by Senior Ministers Jayakumar. Join in Aa%m *>■ WL g m 7>
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      Lock icon Dubai will never raise a penny again': Investors
      636 2 AGENCIES DUBAI Furious bondholders have arranged emergency talks with Dubai officials this week to get some clarity on the financial health ofthe state-owned company Dubai World, as Abu Dhabi indicated it will be cautious about assisting its troubled neighbour. A conference call
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      Lock icon ISKANDAR ZONE NOT HIT BYCRISIS:ABDUL GHANI
      130 2 AFP Johor's Iskandar special economic zone, which has the nation's largest number of Middle Eastern investors, should be unscathed by the Dubai debt crisis, said the chief minister ofthe southern state, Mr Abdul Ghani Othman. He told The Star: "Since only one company from
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      Lock icon DEBT DISSOLVES DUBAI'S MIRAGE IN THE DESERT
      949 3 THEGUARDIAN AN EMIRATE IN CRISIS ANALYSIS DAVID TEATHER TOWARDS the end of last month, the Dubai government issued a prospectus to promote a US$2.5-billion ($3.5-billion) Islamic bond, which contained a littlenoticed but important clause. In it, the government and the ruling family appeared
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      Lock icon A third of the world has agreed
      650 4  -  IMELDASAAD GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS CUTS imelda@mediacorp.com.sg TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Commonwealth leaders have thrown their full support behind the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month. At their summit in Trinidad and Tobago, all 53 member states pledged their commitment to seal a
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      Lock icon RWANDA ADMITTED AS NEWEST MEMBER: OFFICIAL
      114 4 AFP Leaders of the Commonwealth of mainly former British colonies have formally admitted francophone Rwanda as the newest member of its family, officials confirmed yesterday. Commonwealth secretary general Kamalesh Sharma had telephoned Rwandan President Paul Kagame late Saturday to tell him ofthe decision by
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      Lock icon Barking up the right tree
      697 6  -  ANSLEYNG ANIMAL CARE AVA to help improve pet shop standards and owner responsibility with new pet-care course ansley@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE From next year, pet buyers can expect better service when they go to pet shops. And instead of just getting help to choose a pet,
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      RABIES QUARANTINE REQUIREMENT TO BE DROPPED
      97 6 Dr Maliki also announced yesterday that as a result of risk management measures such as rabies vaccines, blood testing and microchip identification for animals, the AVA will waive quarantine requirements from Jan 1 for pets imported from countries with minimal rabies risk. This means
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      29 year old arrested for loan-shark activities
      86 8  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB SINGAPORE Police have arrested a 29-year-old man in Redhill Close for alleged loan shark harassment activities. The suspect was arrested when he tried to flee after he was spotted behaving suspiciously outside a flat on Saturday afternoon. A can of paint and
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      Not an easy way out: Minister
      221 8  -  ALICIA WONG EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PAYMENT alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The "vast majority" of companies are either already implementing re-employment practices or allowing employees to continue working beyond the retirement age, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong said yesterday as he reassured that the Employment Assistance Payment (EAP)
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      Lock icon We Are One charity project ends today
      141 8 EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE The "We Are One" charity fund-raising project ends today, and contributors are continuing to step forward. The initiative involving CapitaLand, Lego Singapore and MediaCorp aims to raise $1 million for charity. The Young PAP joined in yesterday, raising nearly $4,000
      EVELYN CHOO; 001 BOONKEONG  -  141 words
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Get savvy on financial matters
      237 10 SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE More financial education will be available to Singaporeans soon with national financial education programme MoneySense planning to partner a university or polytechnic to j ointly set up a financial literacy institute. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said at the Mind Your
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      Lock icon WELCOMING A NEW RECORD
      102 10 Officials from Singapore Book of Records counting the number of SingTel hi! cards used in the Largest Display of Phone Cards during the SingTel Dormitory Gladiators' Challenge Finale 2009 yesterday. A total of 1,551 prepaid cards were used to form the 4.6m by 3.5m hi! logo.
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      Lock icon Questions swirl as he keeps mum
      275 10 AGENCIES TIGER WOODS'CAR CRASH WINDERMERE The mystery over Tiger Woods' car crash intensified when his agent called police officers on their way to Woods' house on Saturday and asked them to wait another day before speaking to him. It was the second straight day
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      Lock icon Russia hunts for train bombers
      227 12 AFP MOSCOW Russian police were hunting for the bombers behind an attack that killed at least 25 people on an elite passenger train, while relatives began the grim task of identifying bodies. It remained unclear what had motivated the attackers to strike the Nevsky Express,
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      Lock icon 'Long live the Ampatuans'
      337 12 AGENCIES SHOWOF SUPPORT Allies of political clan linked to bloody killings stage rally SHARIFF AGUAK (Philippines) Allies of a political clan linked to the bloody massacre of at least 57 people last week rallied to their defence in the lawless southern Philippines yesterday. About a dozen
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      Dogs diagnosed with H1N1in China: Report
      117 12 BEIJING Two dogs in Beijing have tested positive for Influenza A (HI Nl) in the second case of animals catching the disease in China along with pigs in the north-east, Chinese media said yesterday. The HINT virus detected in the dogs was 99 per
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon EX-ARMY BOSS HAS A MISSION
        83 14 AGENCIES SRI LANKA Former Sri Lankan General Mr Sarath Fonseka declared he would in January elections try to unseat President Mahinda Rajapakse, who claims credit forthe defeat of Tamil Tigers in May. Mr Fonseka said he would reduce the powers vested in the presidential office,
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        NUKE PLANT'S WATER COOLER CONTAMINATED
        73 14 INDIA Workers at a nuclear power plant in southern India were treated for poisoning, after drinking water that was deliberately spiked with radiation, senior government officials said yesterday. Fifty-five workers at the Kaiga nuclear power plant in the state of Karnataka tested positive for tritium
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      Lock icon A 'mixed' reaction
      452 14 THENEWYORKTIMES SOUTH KOREA'S BABY BOOM YEONGGWANG Just a few years ago, the number of pregnant women in this city had dropped so much that the sparsely equipped two-room maternity ward at Yeonggwang General Hospital was close to shutting down. But these days it is busy. More surprising
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      Lock icon No more new minarets
      205 16 SWISS REFERENDUM AGENCIES GENEVA Over 57 per cent of Swiss voters yesterday approved a blanket ban on the construction of minarets in mosques, which right-wing parties regard as symbols of militant Islam. According to Swiss news agency ATS, a final tally of 26 cantons indicates that
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      Lock icon CALL FOR ISLAMIC LAWTO STOP HIV
      57 16 AFP Several hundred hardline Muslim protesters staged rallies in Indonesia yesterday to urge the government to prevent the spread of HIV by implementing Islamic law. Ahead of World Aids Day on Dec 1, members of the HizbutTahrir group took to the streets in several
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      Lock icon Iran MPs call to distance IAEA
      205 16 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iranian Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday demanded the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reduce ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) after it censured Tehran for building a new nuclear plant. Condemning a resolution issued by the lAEA on Friday as
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      Lock icon AMERICA VERSUS THE NARRATIVE
      742 17 "THE NEWYORKTIMES POINT OF VIEW THOMAS L FRIEDMAN WHAT should we make of Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood earlier this month? Here's my take: Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced. But the more you read about his support for
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      Lock icon When the US allowed Osama to slip from their grasp
      172 18 AP WASHINGTON Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within the reach of United States troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a
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      Lock icon Brown sets Karzai's KPIs
      304 18 AFP,THE DAILYTELEGRAPH TROOP EXIT PLAN PORT OF SPAIN British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has upped the pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai insisting he draw up in the next two months a plan to enable foreign forces to start withdrawing. Mr Karzai needed to draw up
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      Lock icon Obama accused of Venting out' ambassador roles
      146 18 THEGUARDIAN WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama is coming under fire for handing dozens of coveted ambassadorships to donors who raised millions for his presidential campaign. The postings range from tiny island nations in the Caribbean to major political partners, such as France
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      108 19 mm ______k _L '"€BBSr V _fc___ 1 WE ARE ONE JAm~ K Join Senior Minister S Jayakumar s>s *,n^ kw Am in the unveiling of the giant \^T/^^^\^^ Singapore Island this 'm-mlt/^AA th NovemDer> 5Pm at lON orchard. As the island stands majestically at lON Orchard, we will be reminded
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      Too competitive?
      343 20  -  Joseph Wong BAD SPORTSMANSHIP Letter from FOR THE first time in my life, I attended a fencing competition on Friday that my 10--year-old daughter was taking part in, also for the first time in her life. It was the YMCA Fencing Cup and there were several age groups,
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      Are stickers that important in lifts?
      185 20  -  Saul Sio Letter from I AM appalled at the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) reply ("Direct lift access not always possible: HDB", Nov 26). It said: "The blue stickers on the new lifts indicate that the lift is wheelchair friendly as it comes with
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        We have anti-spam control, so why no anti-junk control?
        137 21  -  Mohan Rasa Letter from I THE authorities are left with little means but to play catch up with the problem of junk mail. It is time that legislation is passed to control junk mail distribution. The junk mail control legal framework
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        Why not use a communal notice board instead?
        153 21  -  Letter from Rick Lim Say Kiong SMRT used to face similar problem with flyers stuck to the pillars and walls in the vicinity of MRT stations. The answer was to provide a common notice board for flyers. Signs were put up to
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      SHORT TAKE
      53 21  -  Chin KeeThou TIME FOR SINGPOSTTO STEP UP Letter from As a corporate citizen, SingPost is morally obligated not only to respect the wishes of homeowners who do not wish to receive junk mail, but also to help curtail the littering of such mail discarded by disgruntled residents around
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      176 21  -  DR BILL MAIER BY CURING MISBEHAVIOUR Want to know how your children act at school? Just watch how they act at home! No parent wants to think their kids are causing a problem in school, but how they act at home is a pretty good indicator
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        Lock icon He's more brains than brawn. Really
        1108 22  -  MAY SEAH THE BELL-BOTTOM BOY In real life, Elvin Ng isjust a peace-loving closet writer may@mediacorp.com.sg FACE-TO-FACE with Elvin Ng (picture), I had two burning questions that I did not think it polite to ask. The first was: "How did you get such amazing
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        Lock icon Taiwanese drama big winner at Chinese Oscars
        140 24 AP BANCIAO The Taiwanese social drama No Puedo VivirSin Ti was the big winner at the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars, winning best picture and best director for Leon Dai (picture). In the annual Golden Horse Awards ceremony in Taiwan late on Saturday,
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        Lock icon Tourist sites face closure
        295 24 AFP STRIKES IN FRANCE PARIS The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, the chateau of Versailles and a host of other top French tourist sites could shut this week due to strike action over planned job cuts, unions warned last week. A strike has already shut
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        Lock icon Fat jokes are no laughing matter, says Dawn French
        205 24 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SHE called her autobiography Dear Fatty and her girth provided much humour in the sitcom The Vicar ofDibley, but Dawn French says jokes about the overweight should be consigned to history along with those about race or sexual orientation.
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        One tame animal
        572 25  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE REVIEW BEAUTY &THE BEAST Wild Rice's newest panto has some wild moments but lacks bite overall mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WILD Rice's new year-end pantomime sees the return of the creative duo behind 2008's Snow White &The Seven Dwarfs. Back then, resident playwright Afian Sa'at and director
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      673 28  -  DAVID NGIAU POINTOFVIEW Fortune doesn't always favour the brave, Lady Luck smiles on the hapless too ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton o Liverpool 2 deputy sports editor david@mediacorp.com.sg TAKE these numbers down: 181, 30, 16, 11, 5. They should bring you good luck this weekend. Oh wait, Toto only
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      628 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Arsene Wenger is furious with the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) after discovering that Robin van Persie may not play again this season. The Dutch striker injured ankle ligaments in Holland's friendly against Italy two weeks ago and was initially
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      36 29 '-ENGLISH FOOTBALL Chelsea underline title credentials with emphatic win at Emirates Stadium Arsenal's Eduardo couldn't find a way past Chelsea's Ashley Cole yesterday. AFP I-h_ ir E S 0 E E E IS
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      325 29 'AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Aston Villa 1 Tottenham Hotspur 1 BIRMINGHAM While Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill spends much of his time playing down his own side's credentials and whether they can leapfrog struggling Liverpool this season, Tottenham Hotspur coach Harry Redknapp can't stop
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      597 30  -  lAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL m Shahfiq, the baby of the SEA Games squad, is one for Singapore football's future ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The national football squad left just before dawn this morning for Vientiane, Laos, for the SEA Games. With an average age of
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      188 30 SHENZHEN (China) Brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari won Italy's first World Cup of Golf by one stroke yesterday, beating Ireland's Rory Mcllroy and Graeme McDowell, who led after the first three rounds, and defending champions Sweden. The Molinari brothers shot a 4-under 68
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      388 30 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Sprinters Poh Seng Song and Muhd Amirudin Jamal could miss their flight to Vientiane, Laos, in a couple of weeks after the two SEA Games-bound athletes failed to meet the mark at yesterday's 71st Singapore Open Track Field Meet 2009. Poh
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      83 29 Italian Cup Sampdoria Livorno Wed, 02/12/09 3.30am E League Cup Portsmouth Aston Villa Wed, 02/12/09 3.45am E League Cup Manchester Utd Tottenham Wed, 02/12/09 4.00am E League Champ matches ate also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. |Pl_AY_ A AQP* Pav *',h :a"s SINGWOfIE |___o™__f Do
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      583 32  -  SIDNEYCHU SERVICE INDUSTRY succeed@mediacorp.com.sg WE ARE entering a new era in the hospitality and tourism industry in Singapore. The opening of the integrated resorts, the development of a new cruise terminal at Marina South and the hosting and staging of events like the Singapore Grand
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      270 32 ONG DAI LIN BILLION DOLLARGREEN TOBIN SMITH A green revolution of sorts has begun, with environment issues being thrust into the limelight to find strategies to combat global warming. And with that comes business opportunities as the world seeks to find viable sources of alternative energy. In his
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      308 34 .AFP MALAYSIA INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS KUAIA LUMPUR A Malaysian state government is probing investigators' claims that up to 60 per cent of infrastructure funds possibly amounting to billions of dollars have been siphoned off, a Sunday report said. The Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak state on the re-source-rich
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      645 34 AGENCIES NEW YORK He parties with the likes of Paris Hilton, splurges up to US$6O,OOO ($83,240) at nightclubs with his penchant for US$9OO Cristal champagne, and travels around New York in a fleet of black Cadillac Escalades with his bodyguards. Malaysian
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      677 35  -  CONRAD RAJ POINT OF VIEW editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg THE ongoing Sino-Environ-ment Technology Group saga once more highlights the problems and dangers of investing in stocks whose jurisdiction is beyond the reach of the exchange on which they are listed. I fear that the planned shareholders' meeting
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        76 36 40.5 cents I Neutral Nomura keeps rating at Neutral with $0.44 target price, saying ClT's failure to install itself as manager of MI Reit leaves it with little choice but to subscribe for latter's rights issue; "this means the bulk of July placement proceeds will be invested
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        60 36 $8.411 Buy BNP Paribas keeps Buy call, $9.52 target on expectation of full Ebitda margin recovery in H2'lo. Says "CDO saga and HP's supply chain reshuffling will exert pressure on Venture's share price in the near term the underlying strong fundamentals and gradual recovery from other business segments
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        79 36 33 cents Outperform Daiwa downgrades from Buy and raises target price to $0,375 on valuation grounds after stock's outperformance versus the STI since March trough this year. Also increases FYIO-11 earnings forecasts by 10.0 per cent, 2.9 per cent respectively to assume firmer abalone prices. FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND
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        18 36 Thursday 2,762.22 1.10% Wednesday 2,792.84 A 0.46% Tuesday 2,779.98 T 0.64% Monday 2,797.88 A 1.32%
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        23 36 US$1 $1,388 ¥100 $1,604 £1 i euro A$i RMi $2,291 HK$ioo $17.91 $2,081 RMB100 $20.33 $1,258 RS100 $2,976 $0,409 RPio,ooo $1,471
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      424 36 THE NEWYORKTIMES, BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Consumers in the United States were out over the weekend, wallets open, hunting bargains, but no longer quite so afraid to spend. On the marathon shopping day in the US known as Black Friday, anecdotal reports suggested an
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      532 36 THE NEWYORKTIMES, BLOOMBERG US CENTRAL BANK Central bank chief warns of risks in push to revamp Fed WASHINGTON Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben S Bernanke has warned bluntly that proposed financial legislation to curb the central bank's authority to supervise the banking system and tampering
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