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The Dow Jones Industrial Average capped the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever, as hopes for a major international bank-rescue plan were overwhelmed at day’s end by another wave of selling. Some investors who normally would be jumping to buy beaten-down stocks after a 22% drop over eight trading [...]

Treasury planning a program to attract private capital alongside public capital to financial institutions. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that the U.S. government was working on a plan to buy stock in financial institutions by using part of the $700 billion authorized by Congress to stabilize the financial system. [...]

General Motors insisted yesterday that bankruptcy was not an option, despite facing what it described as “unprecedented challenges”. Fears have been growing that the biggest US carmakers, GM and Ford, are close to calamity as the crisis in the financial markets has bled into the real economy. Shares in the pair were back under pressure [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Seized-up credit markets began to see the first small signs of easing Friday, but anxiety over the long-term prospects for recovery is keeping lenders mostly sidelined. The overnight interbank lending rate, known as Libor, fell by half, suggesting that banks are becoming more willing to lend to each other in the [...]

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