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FDIC seen stepping up sales of failed bank assets

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is expected to offer $3.8 billion of guaranteed securitizations backed by the residential mortgage assets of failed banks, market sources said on Tuesday.
 

Farewell: Nobel winner, King of Pop left us in '09

Final farewell: Nobel winner Borlaug, Kennedy, King of Pop among the notables who died in 2009. Of all the notables who died in 2009, the one who most changed the world could have walked down any Main Street USA without causing a stir.
 

Farewell: Nobel winner, King of Pop left us in '09

Final farewell: Nobel winner Borlaug, Kennedy, King of Pop among the notables who died in 2009. Of all the notables who died in 2009, the one who most changed the world could have walked down any Main Street USA without causing a stir.
 

Second Wave Of The Credit Crisis: Collapsing Commercial Real Estate

The recent uptick in home sales, green shoots of new housing starts and rebounding stock market may suggest that the long-awaited turn in the U.S. economy is here.
 

Second Wave Of The Credit Crisis: Collapsing Commercial Real Estate

The recent uptick in home sales, green shoots of new housing starts and rebounding stock market may suggest that the long-awaited turn in the U.S. economy is here.
 

FDIC tests toxic assets sale program

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp launched the first test of its Legacy Loans Program that could eventually help banks rid their balance sheets of toxic assets so they can raise new capital and increase lending, the agency said on Friday.
 

GM latest in string of US company takeovers

US has nationalized companies before, mostly temporarily; Amtrak a surviving example. The U.S. assumption of a controlling interest in General Motors Corp. isn't the first time the government has nationalized a company or an industry. It has taken shares in banks, railways, steel mills, coal mines and foreclosed homes.
 

GM latest in string of US company takeovers

US has nationalized companies before, mostly temporarily; Amtrak a surviving example. The U.S. assumption of a controlling interest in General Motors Corp. isn't the first time the government has nationalized a company or an industry. It has taken shares in banks, railways, steel mills, coal mines and foreclosed homes.
 

Ex-FDIC chairman L. William Seidman dead

L. William Seidman, former FDIC chairman, dead at 88. Former Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. L. William Seidman has died.