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	<title>John Gapper's Business Blog</title>
	
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	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>China and Germany trade places as the world’s factory</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/china-and-germany-trade-places-as-the-worlds-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Lucas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[China has officially ousted Germany as factory of the world. Cue angst in Berlin, cheering in the streets of Tiananmen Square?
Not a bit of it. All the data really tells us is that the world isn&#8217;t flat and manufacturing is fluid: so long as ships ply the seas, goods can be made wherever labour and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado about nothing at the FSA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/much-ado-about-nothing-at-the-fsa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/much-ado-about-nothing-at-the-fsa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bogler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Should we care about the resignation of Hector Sants as chief executive of the UK&#8217;s Financial Services Authority?
No disrespect to Mr Sants, but the City watchdog has been a lame duck regulator since the Tories made it clear they would break up the FSA if they win the UK general election in May - which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: Sants quits as head of UK financial regulator</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/ft-video-sants-quits-as-head-of-uk-financial-regulator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hector Sants has resigned as head of the UK&#8217;s Financial Services Authority. Brooke Masters, the FT&#8217;s chief regulation correspondent, talks about the future of regulation in the UK.
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		<title>The Goldman Sachs narrative</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/the-goldman-sachs-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/the-goldman-sachs-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Tassell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/?p=8731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, it was called PR. Now it is the narrative. A big theme in business culture in recent years has been the rise of corporate narrative - the push by companies to shape the story of their business and culture for internal and external audiences. It is a corporate recognition of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM, Ford: Reasons to be grateful to Toyota</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/gm-ford-reasons-to-be-grateful-to-toyota/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/gm-ford-reasons-to-be-grateful-to-toyota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Lucas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Louise Lucas blogs for the Financial Times on the impact of Toyota's woes on its rivals, such as GM, Ford and VW. ]]></description>
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		<title>Glaxo shows the way in making research pay</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/glaxo-shows-the-way-in-making-research-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/glaxo-shows-the-way-in-making-research-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bogler</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/?p=8636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s top 10 pharmaceutical companies spend around $50bn a year on research &#38; development&#8230;but have very little to show for it.
The cost of bringing a new drug from the laboratory to market has risen to around $1bn and, in an influential study released last year, McKinsey estimated that the industry&#8217;s return on R&#38;D over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cadbury: never as soft-centred as you thought</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/cadbury-never-as-soft-centred-as-you-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/cadbury-never-as-soft-centred-as-you-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bogler</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the UK about the future of Cadbury under Kraft Foods, which is currently raising debt to fund its $19bn acquisition of the chocolate maker.
It is understandable that employees, in particular, are uncertain about their jobs; it is also clear that Cadbury is a name that resonates publicly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar signals shift from stars to studios</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/avatar-signals-shift-from-stars-to-studios/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/avatar-signals-shift-from-stars-to-studios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bogler</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Avatar has been declared the &#8220;future of movies&#8221; and it may be - though perhaps not quite in the way Hollywood thinks. Barely a month after launch it has generated more than $2bn in ticket sales, becoming the top-grossing film of all time. Its popularity is almost entirely down to the amazing 3-D special effects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota: sorry is the hardest word to say</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/toyota-sorry-is-the-hardest-word-to-say/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/toyota-sorry-is-the-hardest-word-to-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bogler</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/?p=8536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A problem that is handled well can increase a customer&#8217;s loyalty. This is something Toyota should bear in mind as it deals with the potentially devastating recall of more than 8m cars for safety defects. Just look at last week&#8217;s healthy results from Mattel, which has recovered admirably from the &#8220;toxic toy&#8221; scandal of 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guest line-up of FT writers take on this blog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/a-guest-line-up-of-ft-writers-take-on-this-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2010/02/a-guest-line-up-of-ft-writers-take-on-this-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gapper</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/?p=8506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am taking a break from blogging (and column-writing) for a couple of months and will return at Easter. In the meantime, this blog will be run by a guest line-up of Financial Times writers, led by Dan Bogler, our managing editor.
I look forward to resuming but I am leaving the blog in safe hands. [...]]]></description>
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