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growing belief in the likelihood of a federal bailout of home-funding giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac triggered a rally in the debt prices of the two companies on Thursday while a steep fall in their shares prices abated.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3429119107</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:11:28 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financials and oil weigh on US stocks (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=119k1ua5r/*http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto082120081716116601&amp;referrer_id=yahoofinance</link><description>US stocks ended mixed on Thursday as investors weighed higher oil prices and continuing concerns about the financial sector, in particular Lehman Brothers and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3701171454</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:10:10 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The return of the state: How government is back at the heart of economic life (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=119k1ua5r/*http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto082120081651246599&amp;referrer_id=yahoofinance</link><description>For the best part of three decades, policymakers in the developed world followed Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in seeking to roll back the frontiers of the state. 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