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<title>Winter Olympics tickets go on sale</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192702055</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 10:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Cayman Islands, a British dependency and offshore banking haven, already is well known among divers  ...  intends to begin the program next year. Lithuania: Credit card fraud is increasing in part  ...  not have modern security devices installed, but banks expect to resolve this issue by 2010.  ...
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<title>Grain shipments stalled in credit drought</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192700735</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 09:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  level of failures; even the strongest global banks are taking shelter in government bailouts. Tuesday,  ...  trade by volume goes by ship. The Baltic Dry Goods Index, the main measure of  ...  thing on their minds is making fresh loans,&quot; Omar Nokta, an analyst at investment bank  ...
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<title>Railway company to try to boost number of Paris taxis - World Watch</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192681076</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 05:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the state&apos;s reputation as a safe destination. Credit card fraud is increasing in part because  ...  About 30 percent of all machines in Lithuania do not have modern security devices installed, but banks expect to resolve this issue by 2010.  ...
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<title>What if ... government had not intervened?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192663463</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 01:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bubble burst, virtually all the world&apos;s major banks are technically bust, with wildly overvalued assets  ...  which the global shipping system depends. The banking crisis means that the amount of goods  ...  in the last month. According to the Baltic Freight Index, only 25% as much freight  ...
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<title>Eastern Europe, Central Asia Countries Not Immune to Financial Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192653206</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  hard, though so far orderly, landing in Estonia and Latvia. &amp;ldquo;Inflation is rising throughout the Region, and,  ...  In case of contagion emanating from cross-border banks and cross-border lending, cooperation between home and  ...
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<title>Near the Arctic Circle, the Jews of Syktyvkar Dream of a Fancy JCC</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192632838</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 17:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  latitudinal degrees, as does a congregation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The majority of Jewish families in  ...  deported to the region from Poland and Lithuania in the 1940s. Whether the Jewish population  ...  the project can be financed through low-interest loans from local banks. Last January, Zilberg wrote  ...
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<title>IMF to use emergency loan programme to tackle crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192525328</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and build up currency reserves. Now central banks around the world are drawing on those  ...  deficits and high levels of external debt. Estonia&apos;s current-account deficit  the broadest measure of  ...  their currencies pare losses. Last month, Peru&apos;s central bank was forced to pour record sums into  ...
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<title>New EU members spared worst of crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192514198</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 18:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the shares of , two leading Austrian-based banks with big central European operations, fell, amid  ...  Bankers and officials insist economic fundamentals and banking sectors are secure enough to avoid systemic  ...  in the property market. Outside the financially-troubled Baltic states, the region has not seen dramatic  ...
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<title>TEXT-Moody&apos;s cuts Swedbank AB ratings</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192513659</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by the foreign currency deposit ceiling of Estonia. The bank&apos;s subordinated debt ratings were also  ...  the deterioration in economic conditions in the Baltic states, where the bank has a significant  ...  a leading position in the Swedish retail banking market. Swedbank&apos;s BFSR at the downgraded level  ...
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<title>Georgia should not become another Northern Cyprus, minister says</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192497316</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  December, amid financial turmoil in which some banks refuse to pay in &quot;hard&quot; currencies such  ...  misinformation, reports Irish Times. Brian Lenihan, Irelands finance minister is set to extend a guarantee  ...  the talks could face opposition from the Baltic states, the UK and Sweden over Georgia  ...
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<title>Fuel and food drive up east Europe inflation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192496652</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  at 6.8 per cent in April. The Baltic state of Latvia saw its year-on-year rate hitting 17.9 per  ...  thats going to be keeping the central bankers awake at night, Mr Shearing added. A  ...
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<title>Lukashenko&apos;s PR man sheds light on EU campaign</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192490331</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  December, amid financial turmoil in which some banks refuse to pay in &quot;hard&quot; currencies such  ...  misinformation, reports Irish Times. Brian Lenihan, Irelands finance minister is set to extend a guarantee  ...  the talks could face opposition from the Baltic states, the UK and Sweden over Georgia  ...
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<title>Former Finnish president wins Nobel peace prize</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192490330</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  December, amid financial turmoil in which some banks refuse to pay in &quot;hard&quot; currencies such  ...  misinformation, reports Irish Times. Brian Lenihan, Irelands finance minister is set to extend a guarantee  ...  the talks could face opposition from the Baltic states, the UK and Sweden over Georgia  ...
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<title>Column: Real LIFE sometimes comes with a Poor House</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192485486</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for Park Place properties to people with Baltic Avenue checking accounts. You would think that  ...  law, which was described as a vast banking extortion scheme by then Senate Banking Committee  ...  Senate Banking Committee chairman Phil Gramm, mandated banks to extend nearly $1 trillion to developments  ...
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<title>No Iceland scenario here, Baltic leaders say</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192479312</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... No Iceland scenario here, Baltic leaders say VILNIUS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Lithuania and Latvia said on Friday their countries were in no danger of following Iceland into crisis,  ...
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