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<title>Dutch government grants emergency loan to Fortis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192035926</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the credit was needed because Fortis Bank Belgium abruptly ended its liquidity support for Fortis  ...  to fully nationalized the Dutch division of Belgian-Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis, including Fortis&apos;  ...  completely separated from those in Belgium and Luxembourg. Bos said on Friday that in this  ...
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<title>1:14pmTurmoil makes consumers gloomy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192035612</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 07:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  500 index posted its biggest-ever points drop, while a string of European governments in Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and the UK bailed out failing banks. The poll was taken just  ...
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<title>EU rules Slovakia postal law illegal</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192033749</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... Brussels has deployed some of its strongest powers  ...  to one of the European courts in Luxembourg, the commissions ruling would apply in the  ...
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<title>Turmoil makes consumers gloomy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192033283</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  500 index posted its biggest-ever points drop, while a string of European governments in Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and the UK bailed out failing banks. The poll was taken just  ...
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<title>Facing Financial Crisis, European Nations Put Self-Interest First</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192033277</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  financial markets, has been lost, Chancellor In Brussels, the atmosphere is fraught over the national  ...  New York. Carter Dougherty contributed reporting from Luxembourg, and Stephen Castle from Brussels. A version  ...
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<title>Hansen Natural and Coca-Cola enter into distribution agreements</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192027804</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 05:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the distribution of Monster Energy in all CCE European countries including Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Monaco. Rodney Sacks, chairman and CEO of Hansen, said: &quot;We believe the relationship  ...
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<title>Europeans handle crisis together and separately</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192018428</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  like Fortis, which had large operations in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. While government and central  ...  While government and central bank officials in Brussels were eager to sell the Belgian units of Fortis to BNP Paribas of  ...
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<title>EU battles to shield savers from financial firestorm</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192017408</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  battles to shield savers from financial firestorm LUXEMBOURG (October 08 2008): The European Union battled  ...  elsewhere in Europe. Analyst Nicolas Veron at Brussels-based economics think-tank Bruegel warned that increasing deposit  ...
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<title>Dow Drops Over 500 Points: International Financial Crisis Continues</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192013852</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  sharply down on Tuesday. The government of Belgium raised the level of guaranteed bank deposits  ...  deposits 80% to 100,000 euros. The largest Belgian bank Fortis has destabilized since it purchased  ...  75% of Fortis operations in Belgium and Luxembourg which will both retain a minority share.  ...
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<title>Fortis-ABN uncertainty hurts RBS</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192013535</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is also discord between Fortis and the Belgians on one side and the Dutch government  ...  ($15.7bn) investment by the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg governments in the group and the decision  ...
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<title>Ellison Is Annoyed With &quot;Cloud Computing&quot; But The Sky Over Armonk is Thick with Clouds</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192007911</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 03:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Terremark, Rackforce and iTricity, which recently opened a new Cloud Computing Hosting Center for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg using IBM&apos;s cloud infrastructure. IBM Business Partners can use the IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte  ...
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<title>IODA Expands European Catalog Through New Deals With Leading Distributors in France, United Kingdom, Germany &amp; Austria</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192005739</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 03:07 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a presence in many countries through its subsidiaries (USA, UK &amp; Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal) and through its exclusive distribution network in more than 50  ...
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<title>Moody&apos;s affirms BNP Paribas following plans to buy certain Fortis assets</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192002846</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is set to &apos;s banking operations in Belgium, along with units Fortis Bank Turkey, Fortis  ...  Paribas group after the acquisition of the Belgian and Luxembourg operations of Fortis. Overall, the agency sees  ...
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<title>NewsWatch: U.S. stocks fall sharply for fifth day; S&amp;P 500 at five-year low</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192001341</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Washington Mutual. Wachovia. HBOS. Fortis. Bradford &amp; Bingley. Wall Street. The City. Ireland. Iceland. Belgium. Holland. Germany. France. Luxembourg. Bank runs in Hong Kong and India. Vital Signs: Candidates lay out health reform  ...
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<title>Hopes rise for cuts</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192000778</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Singapore. Following the effective nationalisation of the Dutch-Belgian bank and insurance group Fortis, Icelands government  ...  bank deposits, European finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg failed to come up with a unified  ...
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