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Wall Street in Crisis


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Stocks Plunge as Crisis Intensifies
Article | The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department struggled yesterday to contain the fallout from an upheaval among the country's largest investment banks as they moved on to their next challenge -- engineering a $75 billion private rescue of the nation's largest insurance company.
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No Bailout: Feds Made New Policy Clear in One Dramatic Weekend
Article | When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. flew to New York Friday evening, he brought only one change of clothes. And he planned to send a simple message to the powerbrokers of the financial world: No government bailouts would be offered to Wall Street.
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Fed Leaves Key Rate Unchanged
Article | The Federal Reserve yesterday elected to leave the interest rate it controls unchanged, rebuffing calls to bolster the economy at a time of global turmoil in financial markets.
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