The Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates unless global financial turmoil or a sharp crash in share prices threatens to choke off American consumer spending.

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Manager Sir Alex Ferguson made a speech to thank everybody for their efforts over the course of a glorious season, while the club also invited several survivors of the 1958 Munich air crash to share the moment.

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If a share-price crash did tip the American economy into a dive, then the Fed would inevitably be blamed for not cutting interest rates sooner.

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Moreover, financial assets now account for a larger share of household wealth, making the wealth effect of a stockmarket crash potentially much larger.

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Another who has had his fair share of criticism recently is Beloki, who struggled to recover from last year's horror crash in the Tour de France before splitting with team Brioches la Boulangere just before this year's race.

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The jockey has suffered his share of traumas, missing the 2000 Royal Ascot meeting as he recovered from injuries sustained in a plane crash which killed the pilot.

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