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/ 30 September 2008
Panicky investors dumped shares on Tuesday after United States lawmakers unexpectedly shot down a Wall Street bailout plan.
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/ 30 September 2008
The US government’s -billion bailout of the banking industry collapsed on Monday as Congress defied the White House by voting down the plan.
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/ 29 September 2008
SA markets took a pounding on Monday, hit by a global stocks fall and a flight from risk, with investors worried about US and European banks.
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/ 29 September 2008
United States regional bank Wachovia succumbed to the worldwide credit crisis as authorities rescued a slew of European banks.
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/ 29 September 2008
UK nationalised Bradford & Bingley on Monday, making the mortgage lender the second bank to be taken into public ownership this year.
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/ 28 September 2008
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and leading lawmakers early on Sunday reported "great progress toward" reaching a Wall Street bail-out plan.
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/ 27 September 2008
The biggest bank failure in US history added pressure on the US Congress to agree this weekend to a -billion financial industry rescue.
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/ 26 September 2008
Pressure mounted on lawmakers to agree on a -billion financial rescue plan after talks at the White House broke down in acrimony.
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/ 25 September 2008
When Wall Street crashed in 1929, retiree Helen Haas remembers lining up with her mother at a Chicago bank to withdraw her in savings.
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/ 24 September 2008
The FBI has confirmed it is probing allegations of fraud by 24 Wall Street firms, without naming investment giants believed to be under investigation.
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/ 24 September 2008
The financial crisis should not undermine efforts to open up the global economy, the head of the World Trade Organisation said on Wednesday.
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/ 24 September 2008
World stocks steadied on Wednesday and safe-haven government bonds rose after Warren Buffett’s investment in Goldman Sachs failed to calm anxiety.
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/ 21 September 2008
The Bush administration asked Congress on Saturday for -billion to bail out firms burdened with bad mortgage debt.
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/ 21 September 2008
Confidence is an elusive thing but as the roller coaster ride in the markets makes clear, without it, the financial system risks turning to dust.
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/ 20 September 2008
There’s something about hundreds of billions of dollars vanishing overnight that begs a comparison to the 1929 market crash and the Great Depression.
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/ 20 September 2008
The United States surged into action on Friday to launch an all-out attack against the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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/ 19 September 2008
A US government promise to rescue Wall Street from its debt crisis and global central bank intervention spurred a mass market rally on Friday.
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/ 19 September 2008
The US said on Thursday it was putting together a rescue plan to clear away the bad debt that has caused the worst financial crisis in decades.
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/ 18 September 2008
South African banks have little direct exposure to the United States mortgage-backed securities market, says Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni.
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/ 16 September 2008
Barclays said on Tuesday it was in discussions with Lehman Brothers about buying certain assets of the stricken United States investment bank.
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/ 15 September 2008
Fallout from the global financial crisis is not over and more consolidation could occur in the financial sector, the IMF said on Monday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Lehman Brothers has filed for bankruptcy protection, after trying to finance too many risky assets with too little capital.
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/ 15 September 2008
US regulators will not allow mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pay their chief executives multimillion-dollar severance packages.
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/ 10 September 2008
Ailing investment bank Lehman Brothers announced on Wednesday an estimated $3,9-billion loss in its fiscal third quarter.
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/ 10 September 2008
Lehman Brothers is set to announce its ”strategic initiatives” on Wednesday that could include plans to sell British real estate assets to BlackRock.
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/ 9 September 2008
World economic growth is set to continue to slow in the second half of 2008 before a gradual recovery in 2009, the IMF said on Tuesday.
House prices in the US are plunging at their fastest rate for 12 years, leaving millions of people struggling to meet home loans.
Shares in Asian and European banks tumbled on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks on concerns about exposure to troubled US mortgage lenders.
United States worries grew on Friday night when federal officials took over California mortgage lender IndyMac after a run on the bank by depositors.
South Africa has a well-regulated and capitalised banking system which has been largely unaffected by the United States subprime market crisis.
SA has a well-regulated and capitalised banking system that has been largely unaffected by the US subprime crisis, the Reserve Bank said on Tuesday.