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US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression - Beaufort Gazette

10 October 2008, 5:26 pm

WASHINGTON The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still ...... read more

Europe suffers losses as Dow trims fall - Times Online

10 October 2008, 4:22 pm

Panic shot through stock markets around the world today, suggesting that drastic actions by central banks and authorities have failed to calm investors. However, the Dow Jones rallied in late trading to produce the best session of the week as buyers ...... read more

US election: Hope for Barack Obama in the south as Republican campaign ... - Daily Telegraph

10 October 2008, 3:46 pm

There were elderly black men, their backs bent but their pride evident, their wives holding their arms. Youths sporting dreadlocks or afros and wearing low-slung jeans. Frazzled young women clutching children and wearing Barack Obama t-shirts. Middle ...... read more

As Wall Street tanks, we're all suffering - Seattle Times

10 October 2008, 3:39 pm

The chart below reflects the stock price and the dollar change. WASHINGTON — While all eyes Thursday were on Wall Street's 679-point plunge, its cause is being felt across America as the snowballing financial crisis sends an already weak economy ...... read more

Obama making headway in Republican territory - International Herald Tribune

5 October 2008, 12:46 pm

The turmoil on Wall Street and the weakening economy are changing the contours of the presidential campaign map, giving new force to Senator Barack Obama's ambitious strategy to make incursions into Republican territory, while leading Senator John ...... read more

Economic Unrest Shifts Electoral Battlegrounds - The Ledger

5 October 2008, 6:40 am

The turmoil on Wall Street and the weakening economy are changing the contours of the presidential campaign map, giving new force to Senator Barack Obama’s ambitious strategy to make incursions into Republican territory, while leading Senator John ...... read more