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The depth and breadth of the housing crisis is forcing regulators to consider and implement quickly some ideas that only recently were unthinkable.
Outflows have continued to slow and more new cash has begun to find its way back to tax-exempt money market funds over the last week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will convene a forum on Monday to launch the development of a second economic stimulus package.
It's a dated snapshot but still fascinating: large loans ran into trouble at a breakneck pace last year, according to a report released Wednesday by federal regulators.
The U.S. Justice Department has subpoenaed several large firms and agencies as part of an investigation to determine whether Lehman misled investors before its Sept. 15 bankruptcy filing.
With just $6 billion in assets left, of what once totaled $83 billion, Reserve Management is liquidating its 18 remaining funds.
After four days of wrangling with Wells Fargo & Co. over Wachovia Corp., Citigroup Inc. said late Thursday it broke off compromise talks with Wells.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has proposed a $150 billion Emergency Stabilization Fund to help small businesses, universities, students and municipalities cope with the credit crisis, with the money coming from the $700 billion financial bailout package.
Money market mutual funds are expected to all participate in the Treasury Department's temporary guaranty program, which will cover investors' assets in the funds as of the end of Sept. 19, analysts said.
The U.K. has been less coordinated in its responses to the crisis than the U.S., said former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker.
Banking companies that do not need capital are having the easiest time raising it, and in some instances they are raking in far more than they initially requested.
Gerald J. Ford made his reputation buying up damaged banks and thrifts during the S&L crisis, fixing them, and selling them for top dollar. Now, he is looking to repeat history.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed motions to remand back to state court the lawsuits he filed this summer against the three major credit rating agencies.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's ban on short selling, which it initiated Sept. 18 as an emergency order to help stabilize the tumultuous market, has finally been lifted.
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