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    Lehman shares plunge amid market distress (Reuters)

    Pedestrians walk past a Lehman Brothers sign in New York, June 19, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - Shares of Lehman Brothers plunged to nine-year lows and stock in other Wall Street firms declined as new signs of distress in financial markets spooked investors.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:09:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    IndyMac seized as financial troubles spread (Reuters)

    A customer who did not want to give his name talks to a security officer (R) at a closed branch of IndyMac Bank in Burbank, California, July 11, 2008. Mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp on Friday, which will run the bank while it looks for a buyer. IndyMac is the second-largest financial institution in U.S. history to close. The customer and security officer were involved in a brief altercation when the customer was refused to enter into the bank, which resulted in police being called to the scene. No charges were filed. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. banking regulators swooped in to seize mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc on Friday after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the third-largest banking failure in U.S. history.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:05:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Citi sells German retail banking for $7.7 billion (AP)
    AP - Citigroup will sell its German retail banking operation to France's Credit Mutuel for $7.7 billion in cash. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:10:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    GE profit falls, meets estimates, sells loan unit (AP)

    In this May 16, 2008 file photo, a General Electric stove is on display at the Western Appliance store in Mountain View, Calif. Industrial and financial conglomerate General Electric Co. announced Friday, July 11, 2008, that its profit fell 6 percent in the second quarter, and that it has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer finance business for $5.4 billion. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Industrial and financial conglomerate General Electric Co. said Friday its profit fell 6 percent in the second quarter, and has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer finance business for $5.4 billion.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:05:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Trade deficit ebbs as exports rise to record high (AP)
    AP - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in May as exports — including industrial supplies and consumer goods — climbed to all-time highs. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:37:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Lehman debt protection costs jump as shares dive (Reuters)
    Reuters - The cost to insure Lehman Brothers debt against default surged on Friday, as its stock price plunged for the second day. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:27:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    GE profit meets expectations; outlook steady (Reuters)
    Reuters - General Electric Co on Friday posted a second-quarter profit in line with Wall Street forecasts as its finance business recovered from a brutal first quarter, but the company warned those operations are not out of the woods yet. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:30:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Stocks sink on credit worries, oil (Reuters)

    Traders work in the Oil Futures pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York, June 11 2008. Oil leapt $5 to a record high above $147 a barrel on Friday amid growing worries of threats to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and a strike by Brazilian oil workers next week. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES)Reuters - Stocks fell sharply on Friday on worry about the financial stability of the top two home financing providers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, while oil prices hit an all-time high, clouding the outlook for the economy.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:32:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae cut losses on Dodd comments (Reuters)
    Reuters - Shares of Freddie Mac briefly turned positive on Friday and those of Fannie Mae sharply pared their losses after Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the two government-sponsored mortgage giants were fundamentally sound. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:29:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    No imminent government bailout for Fannie, Freddie (Reuters)
    Reuters - Fear spread on Friday that the U.S. housing crisis would drag down the nation's major mortgage finance agencies, and the government offered no hint that it would swiftly step in to help. -- read full article
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:56:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Department stores lead sales declines among retailers (Reuters)
    Reuters - Department stores posted disappointing June same-store sales results on Thursday, hurt by slow mall traffic and consumers looking to cut discretionary purchases, and shares of the companies fell. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:06:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Fears rise on trillion-dollar trouble for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (AFP)

    An exterior view of mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae is seen in 2006 in Washington, DC. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that US mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are AFP - US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are facing growing pressure as fears intensify about a potential calamity at the firms, which underpin trillions of dollars in home loans.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:55:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Economy - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - The Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey found that 55% of economists polled say the U.S. will enter into a recession this year or already has due to higher energy prices, a weakening labor market and falling stock prices. That's up from 47% in the prior month. Respondents raised their Q2 GDP growth estimates to 1.2% from 0.4% due to tax rebate checks. But the outlook has worsened. Rising inflation risks will spur the Fed to hike rates, perhaps this fall, the survey found. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:37:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Stocks rise on Dow Chemical deal, Bernanke (Reuters)

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, July 8, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Stocks rose on Thursday, helped by optimism about a major deal in the chemicals sector and after the Federal Reserve chairman said the central bank and the government are focused on stabilizing the financial system.


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    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:52:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
    Lehman shares drop, Pimco says still trading (Reuters)
    Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc shares tumbled to an eight-year low on Thursday as the investment bank was battered by rumors -- later discredited -- that some key counterparties had pulled business away from it. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:07:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Business
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