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The great global banking crisis of 2008 looks over. The US is injecting 250bn £142bn of capital into its banks. About half will go into nine strategic ones including Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Morgan Stanley Citigroup and Bank of America.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the three largest credit rating agencies for their role in the worst financial crisis in decades, and the agencies admitted they didn't see it coming.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers criticized the three largest credit rating agencies for their role in the worst financial crisis in decades, and the agencies admitted they didn't see it coming.
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THE Reserve Bank says its efforts to ease the strain in domestic money markets, following the global financial crisis, are working well.
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Voters in the US and Europe take a dim view of how their leaders have responded to the financial crisis, according to an FT/Harris poll
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Lawmakers complained Friday that the Bush administration is ignoring the will of Congress and slighting homeowners on the verge of foreclosure in its latest approach to spending $700 billion in economic rescue money.
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Congressional lawmakers complain that the Treasury Department is ignoring Congress in its latest approach to the $700 billion bailout package.
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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers complained Friday that the Bush administration is ignoring the will of Congress and slighting homeowners on the verge of foreclosure in its latest approach to spending $700 billion in economic rescue money.
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Lawmakers complained that the Bush administration is ignoring the will of Congress and slighting homeowners in its latest approach to spending $700 billion in rescue money.
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Lawmakers accused Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. yesterday of haphazardly managing the $700 billion financial rescue, as fault lines widened over what the government should try next to contain the fallout of the financial crisis.
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SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Thursday defended his handling of the financial crisis but refused to say whether any further help will be offered to struggling bank Citigroup.
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Liz Sonders, Andrew Sorkin, and Mellody Hobson evaluate the government's moves.
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WASHINGTON -- Three months after the government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lawmakers on Tuesday blamed former top executives at the mortgage giants for fueling the financial market turmoil that has dragged the country into a recession.
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As the Nunavut Court of Justice prepares to hear arguments Tuesday about former MP Jack Anawak's bid to run in Nunavut's territorial election, Anawak says he has serious questions about how Elections Nunavut handled his case.
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Finance officials from the G7 countries have announced a series of measures to try to slow the effects of a financial crisis that is crippling markets around the globe.
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Lawmakers emerge from session on Palin ethics
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Why are the markets tanking?
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Fuel: Tesco has cut petrol prices by 3p a litre. The oil giant Total and Morrisons followed suit. The average price of unleaded petrol is now 109.2p/l and diesel 120.6p/l. Petrol now costs 9 per cent less than the high of 119.9p on 17 July, with diesel prices 10 per cent cheaper. More cuts may be on the way. As the price of oil sank to a 12-month low, the Petrol Retailers Association said changes took between six and eight weeks to filter down to forecourts.
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Financial leaders from the world's top economies worked Friday on sweeping plans to prop up the tottering banking system, as stocks plunged again in Europe and Asia and careened wildly on Wall Street.
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Lehman's failure turned an American financial meltdown based on the collapse of the subprime mortgage mortgage market into a global crisis.
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The world pays attention to its pirates, not to the continuing famine and warfare.
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Bert van Marwijk, the Netherlands coach, admits his plans for today's World Cup qualifier against Iceland have been thrown into disarray following an injury crisis.
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Experts weigh in on what's happening on Wall Street.
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Lawmakers said a new agreement could lead to the re-evaluation of disability payments awarded to hundreds of retired Long Island Rail Road workers.
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Leaders of many of New York City’s largest companies gathered at the New York Stock Exchange to discuss how they and government officials should respond to the financial crisis.
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Finance officials from the world's top economic powers endorsed a sweeping plan Friday to stem the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.
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Security experts and the federal government are warning that scam artists are leveraging public concern over the global financial crisis to steal sensitive financial data and spread malicious software. In an alert posted Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer's bank, savings and loan, or mortgage. "In fact, these messages may be from 'phishers' looking to use personal information -- account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers -- to run up bills or commit other crimes in a consumer's name," the FTC said. Security firm Arbor Networks details two recent malware attacks that try to trick recipients into opening an e-mail attachment. One e-mail, claiming to have been sent by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., warns recipients that their bank accounts were involved in fraudulent activity. The attached file,
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Even as the personal price tag for a $700 billion-plus bailout sinks in, even as retirement funds shrivel and businesspeople quake, the conversation among many ordinary citizens seems muted in recent days when compared with more easily digested catastrophes.
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Top finance ministers promise to take "decisive action and use all available tools" to tackle the world economic crisis.
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The financial mire is affecting everyone, so here are answers to some fundamental questions
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Cable TV has been airing nonsense about unqualified borrowers who got loans as a form of economic affirmative action. Such baiting tactics belong back in the racial Stone Age.
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Sen. Joe Biden says Sen. John McCain is ignoring the economic crisis to attack Sen. Barack Obama.
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Finance officials from the world’s top economic powers endorsed a sweeping plan Friday to stem the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.
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GROUP of Seven finance chiefs have announced a plan of action to fight a global crisis including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure.
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