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	<title>Daily Financial News</title>
	<link>http://www.iqwolf.org</link>
	<description>Everyday top money news and tips to help you with your finances</description>
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		<title>Holiday Gift Ideas Straight Out of Your Pantry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Thursday Bram

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		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/retirement/holiday-gift-ideas-straight-out-of-your-pantry.html</link>
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		<title>Best of Personal Finance Roundup: Cyber Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andrea Dickson

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		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/retirement/best-of-personal-finance-roundup-cyber-tuesday.html</link>
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		<title>Why stockbrokers are overweight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Spencer Winfield at stockbroker Charles Stanley replies:  When providing performance comparisons for a portfolio, a stockbroker or fund manager will normally compare the rise or fall of the portfolio they manage against a particular index or indices. The index will generally be chosen at the portfolio's creation and used as a benchmark against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/companies/why-stockbrokers-are-overweight.html</link>
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		<title>Building woe fuels call for full-point rate cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Bank of England was urged to reduce rates on Thursday by at least one percentage point from 3% to 2%, with some experts arguing the case for an even bigger move.
It followed shocking figures from the construction sector and ongoing concerns that the low level of bank lending is starving the economy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/companies/building-woe-fuels-call-for-full-point-rate-cut.html</link>
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		<title>New Star: Investors&#8217; questions answered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Beleaguered fund management group New Star Asset Management is locked in talks with its lenders over the group's £230m of debt after its shares fell back to an all-time low. 
The situation has raised fears that investors may look for a quick exit from New Star funds.   Already assets under management at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/companies/new-star-investors-questions-answered.html</link>
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		<title>British Gas opens direct debit helpline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Managing director Phil Bentley has written to all customers highlighted last week and said he was 'happy to allay' their concerns.
And the energy company, Britain's largest, has called in 300 staff to address problems with energy payments.
HELPLINE NUMBER: 0800 048 0101
The Mail on Sunday has been contacted by 1,500 readers worried that they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/companies/british-gas-opens-direct-debit-helpline.html</link>
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		<title>More than 2,000 jobs will go, warn firms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Just weeks before Christmas, Aston Martin, Unilever and Halfords announced cuts to their workforces.
The losses will add to a growing tally as firms struggle in the worst economic downturn since the First World War.
Unemployment is at 1.8m, its highest level for 11 years. It is expected to rise to 3.3m by 2010.
Every day, about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are stuck on a 9.7% mortgage rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The stubborn refusal of lenders to turn on the mortgage tap means hundreds of thousands of borrowers are stuck on unaffordably high rates.
And nothing Alistair Darling said last week will make any difference.
Until May, Lee Tibbenham and his partner Melissa Smith, who have a one-year-old son Joseph, were on a fixed-rate mortgage of 5.85% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/fortune/we-are-stuck-on-a-97-mortgage-rate.html</link>
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		<title>Call for radical cut to interest rates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A 'significant and sustained' downturn in the economy has prompted the call from manufacturers, while struggling small businesses say that Chancellor Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget stimulus package does not go far enough.
The market is already anticipating another significant reduction in borrowing costs after last month's surprise 1.5 percentage point drop in the base rate.
City opinion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iqwolf.org/companies/call-for-radical-cut-to-interest-rates.html</link>
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		<title>Pension rises are just baby steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report  included the expected inflationary rise in the State pension from £90.70 to £95.25 a week for a single person and from £145.05 to £152.30 for a couple, starting in April, but also a headline-grabbing £60 bonus to be paid to all pensioners in January on top of the usual [...]]]></description>
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