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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:31:36 GMT
Bank of Italy to buy 10 bln eur covered bonds-sources - guardian.co.uk

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:41:36 GMT
NY Fed's Chief Backs Preemptive Crisis Moves Fed Should Get Ahead ... - Washington Post

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:36:49 GMT
Swedish central bank cuts repo rate to 0.25% - MarketWatch

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:40 GMT
Brazil's central bank calls auction to buy dollars - Reuters

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:09:14 GMT
DIARY - European Central Bank (ECB) events to August 31 - Reuters

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:08:25 GMT
Investec Slashes CEO Pay After Meeting Central Bank - Bloomberg

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:09:52 GMT
Manila c.bank says mulling how to end easing cycle - Forbes

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:36:51 GMT
Fed Documents Fuel Concerns About Expanding Central Bank's Role - Wall Street Journal

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:18:45 GMT
Iceland Central Bank Should Use Rates to Boost Krona, IMF Says - Bloomberg

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:29:49 GMT
A Forex Trader's Tale of Central Bank Intervention - Forex Hound

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Central Bank RSS 1.0 Sample

Sample CBXML 1.0 file: This is a sample of an RSS 1.0 file customized for central bank use. It:

  • uses a few Dublin Core elements
  • assumes the existence of a namespace — "cb" — that we would define for our particular purposes.

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Scraped RSS 1.0 Feeds NOT FUNCTIONING AT PRESENT

Using PHP and regular expressions to extract content from web pages and convert it to RSS 1.0:

Generating RSS files for daily FX data

Scraping the NY Fed SDMX FX file and creating separate RSS feeds from it.

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