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Helicopter Ben and the toothless FSA fairy

Alf Young on Thursday: Anyone who thinks that, at exceptional times like these, all market participants set aside self-interest to ensure the earliest return to general order and stability must still believe in the tooth fairy too.

The Financial Services Authority says it "will not tolerate" the kind of market abuse which, it clearly suspects, lay behind yesterday's continued battering of the HBOS share price.