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Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday the Obama administration was making headway in calming financial markets and would have a program to cleanse toxic assets from banks' balance sheets up and running by July.

US mulls consumer financial protection agency (AFP)

AFP - President Barack Obama's administration is mulling creation of a federal consumer finance agency to protect the public from predatory mortgage lenders, credit card providers and mutual fund companies, the Washington Post has reported.

Dollar hits four-month low against euro (AFP)

AFP - The dollar sank Wednesday to a four-month low against the euro as rebounding Wall Street stocks encouraged investors to switch away from the safe-haven US currency.

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