Plan aims to rein in derivatives
Posted: August 12, 2009 at 4:51 a.m.
The Obama administration on Tuesday sent Congress legislation seeking to impose broad new oversight on derivatives, the complex financial instruments blamed for hastening the global economic crisis.
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