His plan includes a reserve fund providing a partial guarantee to absorb losses if housing prices continue to decline.

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If they would have bought a different kind of product from the one recommended, they might be offered partial compensation, depending on the losses they suffered.

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Since many stock funds banked big losses in 2001 and 2002, mutual fund investors got a partial tax holiday in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

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The partial nationalisation will be a controversial operation, because it will lead to huge losses for many thousands of Spanish investors, who bought shares in Bankia and provided it with loan capital when it was listed on the stock market last year.

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Across the Americas, markets had suffered heavy losses in the first two days of the week, staged their own partial recoveries on Wednesday, before falling back again.

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Other partial and full closures have yet to filter through to the statistics - including the 900 jobs losses announced in September at BAE's military jet manufacturing plant at Brough in East Yorkshire.

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