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Monday, November 5, 2007

World Markets Nervous about U.S. Banks


Stock markets have fallen across Asia and Europe as confidence in the US banking sector was dented further by the resignation of Citigroup's boss…. Worries over banks' exposure to US sub-prime related debts has been causing market instability for several months. (BBC News, Monday)

The problem is the mother of all banks.

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