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Obama team amending financial rescue package: report

 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's economic team is urgently overhauling the $700 billion financial rescue package to broaden its scope beyond Wall Street, The Washington Post reported on Friday. (link)

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