Template copied from homepage doesn’t show posts

I’m using a WP blog as an “Outlook Today” dashboard page, and to improve the behaviour in Outlook I’m going to change the links on my WordPress homepage to open posts in new windows. I’d also like to create a copy of the standard homepage with normal links that I can direct non-Outlook users to. I’ve pasted the homepage code into a template in my theme folder and created a new page from it in the blog admin. But the resulting page won’t show my posts like the homepage does: all it displays is the page title. I’ve tried pasting in the most basic version of the Loop in the page template, but still with the same result. The Loop seems to find a “post”, but the page title is all it will display. Can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong? I’m using the Basic2Col theme.

Cheers
Fred