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...Markets may feel better about a joint European commitment announced Sunday to guarantee certain bank loans and recapitalize banks. Unfortunately, disappointment in the markets, the failure of another major bank or other dramatic events may yet produce another early-morning FDIC board determination that the American financial system as a whole is at risk...
After record losses last week, Asian stock markets clawed back ground Monday as investors responded positively to details of a bailout plan for U.S. and European banks...
...gains are tentative. Light trading volume in Hong Kong suggests that investors are holding back ahead of Wall Street's reaction to bailout plans. During an Oct. 10 meeting of G-7 finance ministers, European central bankers suggested they would follow Britain's lead by buying stakes in struggling banks and underwriting interbank loans. The U.S. Federal Reserve is also finalizing a plan to recapitalize the nation's bank in order to loosen frozen credit markets...
...remarkable considering the index of blue-chip stocks had just come off its worst weekly loss on record. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, saw its largest one-day percentage gain since 1939, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ jumped 12%. Seems a gaggle of European countries rolling out billions of dollars to guarantee loans and recapitalize banks, and indications that the U.S. might do some of the same, was the confidence boost everyone needed...
...world's finance ministers wring their hands over the global financial crisis, a quieter multilingual chorus of dismay is emanating from the military compounds and foreign offices of one of the planet's most powerful nations. Afghanistan, NATO's first post-Cold War, non-European experiment and the U.N.'s most significant mission to date, has been termed a failure, leading many decision makers to contemplate the unthinkable: negotiations with the very same Taliban leadership that was defeated in 2001. The only problem is, negotiations are unlikely to be successful, and reliance on such stopgap solutions may only make things...