Monday, March 23, 2009

Toxic Asset Plan Revealed. So Far the Market Likes It!

Here is a link to a PDF of the toxic asset plan. So far the markets verdict is "thumbs up."

The market shot higher at the opening and kept going. The Treasury Department said its bad asset cleanup program would tap money from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund and involve help from the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the participation of private investors.

The government's announcement was what the market had waited weeks to hear. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had announced an outline of the program last month but provided few details then about how it would work, leading to a stock plunge that sliced 380 points from the Dow.

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