Buffett offers $800bn bond lifeline - Independent

Story date: 2008-02-12 06:07:02
Added on: 2008-02-12 19:34:40

Buffett offers $800bn bond lifelineIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoIn letters to several of the ailing "monoline" insurance companies, whose guarantees back hundreds of billions of dollars of municipal bonds, ...


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