The number of people out of work in the UK has been falling steadily for almost a year, despite concerns over the economy's sluggish growth.

BBC: UK unemployment total falls to 2.49 million

Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.

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In China, worries are growing about weakening export demand (growth in export volumes has fallen by almost half over the past year to 11%) and falling property prices, which seem to play a role similar to equity prices elsewhere.

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The UK has escaped the worst of the world economic slowdown which is affecting the United States, Japan and much of the eurozone, but many economists warn that government tax revenues are falling fast, and the Chancellor will almost certainly have to revise his over-optimistic economic forecast.

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After falling almost 170 pips from the high, the common currency has found some footing slightly over the 1.2800 level.

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Underpinning this thesis is a belief that interest rates will march higher over the next decade, reversing an almost 30-year period of generally falling rates.

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Like falling dominoes, this in turn invalidates almost all anti-exploit mechanisms that Microsoft has built into their OS over the past decade, which then topples over and turns an entire class of bugs deemed un-exploitable on non-virtualized systems into potential vulnerabilities on virtualized systems.

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