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Falling share price stokes worries of a bank run

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 17, 2008 1:06 PM CDT

(Newser) – Washington Mutual, America's largest savings and loan, may be the next big financial institution to fail, the New York Post reports. Fearing a run on the struggling bank, federal regulators placed calls yesterday gauging interest in a WaMu buyout to Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase,... Read full story »

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