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Dow futures climb almost 350 after horrible week (AP)

Specialist Gregg Maloney, right, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually end with a modest advance. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Wall Street headed for a huge rebound with the Dow Jones industrial average futures up 344, or 4.1 percent, to 8,714. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 45.10, or 5.06 percent, to 936.10. Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 56.50, or 4.41 percent, to 1,339.00.


US moves to get $700B bank rescue effort started (AP)

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at a news conference after the G7 Ministerial meeting in Washington October 10, 2008. The world's rich nations vowed on Friday to take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit markets and ensure banks can raise money but they offered no collective course of action to avert a deep global recession. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)AP - The Bush administration said Monday it is moving quickly to implement a $700 billion rescue program, including consulting with private law firms on how to buy ownership shares in banks to help thaw frozen lending and get the economy moving again.


 

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Governments bail out banks, UK wants new Bretton Woods (Reuters)

General view of the leaders of the euro zone countries attending a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris October 12, 2008. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and leaders of euro zone countries hold an emergency meeting in Paris to agree on specific, pan-European measures to prop up the battered financial sector and halt market panic. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)Reuters - Governments across the world launched multi-billion dollar bailouts on Monday to shore up tottering global banks and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system.


Opening surge seen on bank rescues, Morgan (Reuters)

A woman takes note of stock information in front of an electronic screen at a brokerage house in Beijing, October 13, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - Stocks headed for a sharply higher open on Monday as a push by governments around the world to pump money into the clogged banking system sparked relief among investors and credit markets showed signs of loosening up.