Date: Fri, 5. September 2008 11:15:20

Arms activist guilty of contemptThe Times - 5 Sep 2008THE latest twist in the long-running feud between Terry Crawford-Browne and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel saw the arms deal critic charged with contempt of court today.

Date: Mon, 24. November 2008 14:33:42

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Date: Sat, 13. December 2008 21:23:15

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-0fd=Rurl=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5337655.ececid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNEMyvj6ofJ93N6t7X2R2cirUeKK2gbGordon Brown risks all on rescue plan as Germany rounds on him/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fTimes Onlinenbsp;-/font nobr5 hours ago/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1Germany?s finance chief thinks Gordon Brown?s economic policies are ?crass?. With the pound sinking fast, is he right? Greg Hands, the Tory MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, is a self-avowed Thatcherite, best known around Westminster for his membership of b.../b/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-1fd=Rurl=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2b3e4d92-c7ec-11dd-b611-000077b07658.htmlcid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNHekTrbpLWama7fvm0HP7FhEfqQxQMerkel hints at increase in stimulus plan/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrFinancial Times/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-2fd=Rurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/mailonsunday/article-1094439/We-like-dont-use-credit-cards-The-German-Ambassador-explains-Angela-Merkel-Gordon-Brown-reacting-differently-credit-crunch.htmlcid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNGdisKas3xNZttnskknjxX-sDXlkQThe German Ambassador explains why Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown b.../b/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrDaily Mail/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-3fd=Rurl=http://www.newsweek.com/id/174534cid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNEfy74IO8UjZJsPT-xV9i_etOCykAnobrNewsweek/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-4fd=Rurl=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gbtnxeYy25-Ovl12brvVferl5Q7gcid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNGA18OnMP0Mh1JmvVLQDCdM_XLroQnobrAFP/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-5fd=Rurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/13/germany-economy-european-unioncid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNGk0KYJbMjNclp5C_6eR7P3-yMusAnobrguardian.co.uk/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-6fd=Rurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3726274/Germany-vs-Britain-a-crunch-punch-up.htmlcid=1279363254ei=IXlESfOjDqDM8ASe1ryEDwusg=AFQjCNGM1zb8D79sTEEgjew2SqQh8vQq6wnobrTelegraph.co.uk/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?ned=ukncl=1279363254hl=ennobrball 1,135 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

Date: Fri, 25. July 2008 13:51:05

Abercrombie shares drop after finance chief departsMarketWatch - 1 hour agoBy Andria Cheng, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Shares of teen-focused retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. dropped on Friday after Chief Financial Officer Michael Kramer, who analysts say has been the voice of the company with investors, resigned.Abercrombie shares fall after CFO resigns ReutersAbercrombie CFO leaving for Kellwood Bizjournals.comInternational Herald Tribune - MSN Money - StreetInsider.com (subscription) - Reutersall 30 news articles

Date: Wed, 7. January 2009 03:46:00

pI mentioned many times in my blog in the last 12 months about a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6187_prosper_personal_lending_update.shtml"my bumpy experience of online micro-lending/a. And although I haven't achieved the desired return from my $10,000 investment, I know my posts helped people to know more about this niche topic of personal finance. This recent mail from a reader makes my day (personally identifiable information removed):/p blockquoteemTo: webmaster@pfblog.com pSubject: Thankful reader!/p pHello,/p pI am an avid reader of your blog. I came across the blog by chance within a search engine almost two years ago now- and boy am I glad I did! I am sorry to hear about your disappointing experience with Prosper, but I just wanted to share a positive story from a borrower?s perspective. I am getting married in one month and the expenses have really added up lately. I applied for a personal loan at LendingTree.com and the best rate they were able to find me for my unsecured loan was 18.5%!! I could not fathom that, but I recalled reading your articles about Prosper and decided to try it out. I?ve got a day and a half left on my ?loan auction? (Listing #xxxxxx) and it?s already down to 11%!!!!/p pI just wanted to thank you let you know that by reading your article, you have saved me thousands of dollars!/p p(Name)/em/blockquote/p pThank you for the note! /p pP.S. I also checked Prosper.com and the named loan proposal was fully funded at below 10%./p a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6205_my_pain_is_someone_elses_gain_and_im_glad_i_helped.shtml"READ FULL POST .../a /pp pbHot Deal:/b 5% cashback on everything from a href="http://www.cardoffers.com/manage/track/e.asp?ID=100436974" target="_blank"Citi CashReturns Mastercard/a /pp/ppppRead more news like this from a href="http://www.pfblog.com/" target="_blank"PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003/a. pmap name="google_ad_map_070810222621" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/070810222621?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_070810222621" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-9477731859773028amp;channel=2382296444amp;output=pngamp;cuid=070810222621amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pfblog.com%2Farchives%2F6205_my_pain_is_someone_elses_gain_and_im_glad_i_helped.shtml"//pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=SwfoRIAA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=H1YydCvk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=H1YydCvk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=2EBV1G0x"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=2EBV1G0x" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=1kGthDVy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?d=42" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=cSjEruzC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=cSjEruzC" border="0"/img/a /div

Date: Fri, 16. May 2008 23:31:36

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Date: Sun, 12. October 2008 01:32:37

AFP - The world's leading powers pledged to band together to tackle the financial crisis at an emergency meeting Saturday after a warning from the IMF that the global system was on the brink of meltdown.

Date: Wed, 7. January 2009 03:45:59

pThe ride in the last four weeks has not been easy, if you know what I mean./p pYes, I'm talking about my investment portfolio, which sinks day after day as the general market does in the midst of this credit squeeze that still hasn't seen the end of the tunnel. The a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6178_setting_up_portfolio_benchmark.shtml"home-made index/a of my portfolio, which was a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6193_portfolio_update_mayjune_2007.shtml"as high as 125.89/a at the end of June (read: 25.89% appreciation since January 1, 2006), tanked to 120.69 as of yesterday. Behind the movement of the index is the evaporation of more than $30,000 paper gains in my actively managed accounts, and I have yet to mention the wealth destruction of similar magnitude in my employee stock option account./p pAdding insult to injury, the local stock market in Shanghai is as hot as ever. The a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=000001.SS"Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index/a, which just broke 3,000 in February before the a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6142_shanghai_sneezes_and_the_world_catches_cold.shtml"massive sell-off/a that spread across the world, closed today at 4,869. Since July, the index has been setting new historic highs almost every day, so it is only a matter of time before it flirts 5,000. Many analysts are talking about the index hitting 8,000 or even 10,000 in the near future./p a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6261_between_ice_and_fire.shtml"READ FULL POST .../a /pp pbHot Deal:/b 5% cashback on everything from a href="http://www.cardoffers.com/manage/track/e.asp?ID=100436974" target="_blank"Citi CashReturns Mastercard/a /pp/ppppRead more news like this from a href="http://www.pfblog.com/" target="_blank"PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003/a. pmap name="google_ad_map_070815015858" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/070815015858?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_070815015858" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-9477731859773028amp;channel=2382296444amp;output=pngamp;cuid=070815015858amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pfblog.com%2Farchives%2F6261_between_ice_and_fire.shtml"//pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=5qMpYWGx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=Ymcpb7TQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=Ymcpb7TQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=JhtJLpni"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=JhtJLpni" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=edRNq36B"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?d=42" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?a=wKPYPNXi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pfblog2?i=wKPYPNXi" border="0"/img/a /div

Date: Sat, 13. December 2008 00:10:12

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Date: Fri, 13. June 2008 07:02:28

Manuel, activist agree to 'two-in-one' hearingLegalbrief (subscription) - 8 hours agoArms-deal activist Terry Crawford-Browne reached an agreement with lawyers for Finance Minister Trevor Manuel yesterday on the process to be followed with two court actions Manuel had brought against him.