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Banks Step Up to Rescue Credit Market

On Monday, the nation's three largest banks said they would invest up to $80 billion to get the debt market back on its feet. That market came to a screeching halt this summer as part of the credit gridlock that spun out of the subprime mortgage crisis.

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