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Stocks were getting hammered early Wednesday as a series of events reminded traders the financial crisis is not over:
* Facing mounting losses, Citigroup is abandoning its financial supermarket model, which shouldn’t be a surprise in the wake of Friday’s resignation of Robert Rubin and the sale of Smith Barney to [...]

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On November 7 Bloomberg filed suit under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting details about the terms of eleven new Federal Reserve lending programs created during the deepening financial crisis.
The Fed responded on December 8 claiming it’s allowed to withhold internal memos as well as information about ‘trade secrets’ and ‘commercial information.’ The [...]

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