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Greenwich Associates Analyzes Companies' Options For M&A and Capital Markets Coverage in Time of Crisis Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Stamford, CT USA — A new report from Greenwich Associates helps large U.S. companies sort through the drastic changes sweeping through the world's investment banks. The CEOs and CFOs of large U.S. companies do not have the luxury of waiting for the dust to settle in the current financial crisis. They are acting now to secure the credit that will keep their operations running, to raise the long-term capital needed to preserve their balance sheets and to position their companies to...

Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues in Congress blasted John McCain on Thursday, accusing him of injecting presidential politics into the high-stakes debate on Capitol Hill over economic bailout legislation. The round of recriminations came after the two rival candidates left what was supposed to be a landmark summit with President Bush and congressional leaders. Aides and officials in the meeting said the discussion ended badly, with Democrats fuming at House Republicans over their refusal to drop objections to the administration’s proposal. But they also spread the blame to the Republican presidential nominee, who on Wednesday announced he was suspending...

Stock markets and dollar plunge again on fears over bank crisis 3/14/2008 10:07:00 PM ET Related symbols: BAC BSC The Independent The rescue of Bear Stearns rocked markets that had barely recovered from the shock of Thursday's news about the state of the American economy, particularly high home repossession rates, which virtually confirmed that the US is entering a recession. As with the problems at one of Carlyle Group's funds, and the rescue of Countrywide by Bank of America, the problems at Bear Stearns further eroded confidence in the US financial system. Neil MacKinnon, chief economist at the ECU hedge...