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...attempt to bring some stability to markets, the SEC announced a ban on naked short selling, the aggressive practice of betting on a stock's fall without first borrowing shares. But that did nothing to quell widespread speculation about which struggling financial institution would be the next to disappear. British bank Lloyds was in talks to buy beleaguered U.K. mortgage lender HBOS. Washington Mutual, the U.S.'s largest thrift, put itself up for auction, and Wells Fargo and Citigroup might be interested, according to reports. Morgan Stanley appeared to be on the table too. There were murmurs the investment bank...
...Tuesday Petraeus, who oversaw the "surge" of 30,000 U.S. troops that helped quell the violence, handed control of U.S. forces in Iraq to his former deputy, General Ray Odierno, who had been among those proposing the contentious strategy back in late...
...falling below the expected trend of about 8%. Asian policy makers have been limited in their efforts to stimulate growth because of rising inflation, which has forced most central banks to hike interest rates. Indonesia, for example, raised its benchmark rate again this month in an attempt to quell the nation's nearly 12% inflation...
...long-term effort to quell extremism in the tribal areas will require even more. Pakistan needs to bring schools, jobs, roads, health care, courts and the rule of law to a populace that has rarely seen government attention. Unemployment among the population of 3.5 million hovers around 70%. Two-thirds live in poverty. Only 6% of its people can read, and for women, the figure is less than 1%. Yet neither Pakistan nor the U.S. appears to have a comprehensive strategy for the area. A top expert on Pakistan recently visited a colleague at the White House who, the expert...
...delegate-bus window, lighting a Dumpster on fire, and damaging police cars. Police responded with force, using pepper spray, tear gas and, in some cases, rubber bullets while arresting nearly 300 demonstrators. At least 130 of those arrests were on felony charges, and the National Guard was called to quell violent demonstrators after the main march concluded...