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Some US Bank Bailout Holdings Down $8 Billion

Bailout's option to buy bank stock has rough start due to plunging share prices

The Treasury Department expects to release a full list of the latest participating banks next week.

Interim Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari addresses the Mortgage Bankers Association, Friday, Dec., 5, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
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Associated Press writer Christopher S. Rugaber contributed to this story from Washington.

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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: http://www.ustreas.gov/initiatives/eesa/

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