U.K. Props Up Mortgage Lender U.S. Stock Markets Down on Retail Sales ...

Story date: 2007-09-14 08:07:00
Added on: 2007-09-14 09:00:00

Washington Post - The announcement that England's central bank had moved to bail out one of the country's largest mortgage lenders combined with a tepid report on August retail sales to initially deflate U.S. markets. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 80 points ...


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