| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The freeing of financial and foreign exchange markets encouraged wild speculation and a frenzy of takeovers, followed by spectacular collapses (including of the mainly government-owned Bank of New Zealand, the country's biggest bank), the loss of control of many companies to overseas buyers, some for a song, and then a sharp retrenchment in bank lending and productive investment.
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