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Wall Street Slams Plan With Sell-Off
Wall Street Slams Plan With Sell-Off
Geithner Vows Bold Action But Offers Scant Details On Mortgages, Toxic Assets Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 11, 2009; Page A01
New Plan to Help Banks Sell Bad Assets
New Plan to Help Banks Sell Bad Assets
nytimes.com — The new rescue plan, to be outlined Monday, would inject billions of dollars in fresh capital into... banks and entice investors to buy their most troubled assets. > (more) New Plan to Help Banks Sell Bad Assets
Wall Street Fall
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — Everyone is saying the problem (the Wall Street sell-off) with the Geithner announcement was that it wasn't... specific enough. Nonsense. What freaked out Wall Street was Geithner's "stress test" . Unlike Paulson, Geithner is unwilling to give a ... (more) Wall Street Fall
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