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Obama wants to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would regulate credit cards and mortgages and require that banks offer customers low-risk, standardized products.
Eight companies are looking to raise as much as $3.7 billion when they go public next week, the most activity the U.S. IPO market has seen in a single week in nearly two years.
Last month's daily average volume of 291,100 trades also fell compared with June of this year, with a decline of 8 percent on that basis.
Wanting to snuff out any rise in inflation expectations, the Fed could slow down purchases of either government debt or mortgage-backed securities.
Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as his advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will stem a continuing rise in the nation's unemployment.
The Labor Department said Thursday that wholesale prices climbed 0.3% last month, a larger increase than the 0.1% that economists had expected.
The insurance giant has reduced but not eliminated the risk that its failure could pose to the global economy despite getting more than $180 billion in federal bailout aid, Edward Liddy is expected to tell Congress today.
