2 Banks Buying Back $17 billion in Securities (New York Times)
Story date: 2008-08-07 07:02:14
Added on: 2008-08-07 19:20:39
Two major Wall Street firms offered to buy back more than $17 billion of troubled auction-rate securities that they had marketed as being as safe and liquid as cash.
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