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Stock markets: As traders celebrate big price rallies, sceptics argue that the upturn may be unsustainable – an incipient bubble basedon cheap credit backed by government money
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Flash of regulation
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Dame Clara Furse’s departure as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange is an invitation to City palaeontologists to place her in the timeline of the LSE’s development from user-owned club run by dinosaurs to fast-moving international marketplace with opposable thumbs
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