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  • US Treasury's Recapitalization Plan The Right Move, Says SIFMA

    Date 10/10/2008

    The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (SIFMA) president and CEO, Tim Ryan, today released the following statement after the Treasury officially announced it would undertake recapitalization: "Treasury has again wisely expanded the tools available to address the current turmoil, which will reassure markets globally. Increasing the capital accessible to banks is necessary given the freeze in lending and the broader crisis in confidence. But in devising a program

  • Statement By US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Following Meeting Of The G-7 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors

    Date 10/10/2008

    At today's meeting of the G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, we finalized an aggressive action plan to address the turmoil in global financial markets and the stresses on our financial institutions. This action plan provides a coherent framework that will direct our individual and collective policy steps to provide liquidity to markets, strengthen financial institutions, protect savers, and enforce investor protections.

  • G-7 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors Plan Of Action

    Date 10/10/2008

    The G-7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support global economic growth.

  • CME Group To Launch 18 New Natural Gas Swap Futures Contracts On ClearPort

    Date 10/10/2008

    CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it will launch 18 new natural gas basis, index and swing swaps futures contracts on ClearPort(R), beginning on October 19 for trade date October 20.

  • Intergovernmental Group Of Twenty-Four On International Monetary Affairs And Development Communiqué

    Date 10/10/2008

    1. Ministers of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development held their eightieth meeting in Washington D.C. on October 10, 2008. Mr. Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo, Governor of the Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo was in the Chair, Mr. Adib Mayaleh, Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, as First Vice-Chair, and Ambassador Marcos Galvão, Secretary in International Affairs, Ministry of Finance of Brazil, as Second Vice-Chair.