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WaMu is largest U.S. bank failure ever
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Sep 25, 2008 10:15pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, September 26, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc was closed by the U.S. government in by far the largest failure of a U.S. bank, and its banking assets were sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co for $1.9 billion.
Thursday's seizure and sale is the latest historic step in U.S. government attempts to clean up a banking industry littered with toxic mortgage debt. Negotiations over a $700 billion bailout of the entire financial system stalled in Washington on Thursday.
Washington Mutual, the largest U.S. savings and loan, has been one of the lenders hardest hit by the nation's housing bust and credit crisis, and had already suffered from soaring mortgage losses. |
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