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• N. Korea lifts ban on U.N. nuclear inspectors
That suggested that the North's threat to stop dismantling its nuclear program and restart it was a negotiating ploy meant to wrest more concessions from the United States, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan, the five countries engaging the ...
• Paulson calls a meeting of major U.S. banks
He spoke as The Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank jointly announced they would work together to provide unlimited short-term funds to make money available to ease the credit freeze. The Bank of Japan said it was ...
• U.K. to inject $63 billion into British banks
In Japan, where the Nikkei 225 tanked nearly 10 percent Friday to close out its worst week in history, trading was closed for a public holiday. The British government said that it will buy 5 billion pounds ($8.6 billion) of preference shares directly ...
• Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks
The Bank of Japan said it was considering similar measures. Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, put together a rescue package worth as much as 500 billion euros ($671 billion) to shore up the country’s financial system. “We are taking drastic ...
• Wall Street rebounds; Dow soars over 600
Investors in Asia and Europe also grabbed stocks after last week’s rout and the weekend moves by governments to bolster investor confidence. In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index surged 10.2 percent. Markets in Japan were closed for a holiday. In ...