Cleo's Surf-o-rama

Stuff that catches my eye, mostly politics, some other items of note...

Monday, October 13, 2008

U.S. Injecting Cash into Banks

"The Bush administration will announce a plan to rescue frozen credit markets that includes spending about half of a total of $250 billion for preferred shares of nine major banks, people briefed on the matter said. The companies are Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, State Street Corp., and Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the people said. One of the people also said Merrill Lynch & Co. will receive an investment." Bloomberg.com: Worldwide