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Forbes.com - Banks And U.S. Treasury Discuss $100 Billion Support Fund

October 14th, 2007 · Comments Welcome

This should be good news for the U.S. mortgage market. If we strung a few months together like last month (September), the real estate market would be in trouble.

Leading U.S. banks have reportedly been meeting with U.S. Treasury officials about creating an up-to-$100-billion fund to stave off the danger that there could be a fire sale of shaky mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and other distressed assets following the recent global credit crunch.

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