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• Ireland OKs world-leading bank guarantee
DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish lawmakers approved a comprehensive bank guarantee Thursday, granting taxpayer protection to all deposits and debts of Irish-owned banks. The sweeping deal commits Ireland to insure unlimited deposits and the interbank debts of ...
• Dow Jones ends day below 10,000
The global sell-off came after governments across Europe rushed to prop up failing banks, while the governments of Germany, Ireland and Greece also said they would guarantee bank deposits. As the U.S. tries to repair its battered banking system, the ...
• World markets plunge on fears of growing crisis
France’s BNP Paribas SA committed to taking a 75-percent stake in troubled European bank Fortis NV, and Sweden and Denmark followed Ireland and Britain in raising the amount of savers’ deposits guaranteed by the government. Germany made a ...
• Former Goldman exec to run financial rescue
Among other things, the governments of Germany, Ireland and Greece said they would guarantee bank deposits. In a fresh effort to loosen dangerous credit clogs, the Federal Reserve said it will significantly expand its loan program to squeezed banks by ...
• Europe struggles with unified crisis response
Faltering confidence in the financial system, undermined by a series of bank bailouts, was precipitating the measures, analysts said, since a failure to match guarantees by Ireland, France, Greece and Sweden could risk a massive fund outflow. Yet the ...