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3rd UPDATE: Three Banks Agree To Buy Back Billions Of ARS
Last Update: 8/21/2008 8:18:38 PM
(Updates with SEC comment on settlement with Merrill Lynch in the works in
paragraphs 13 and 14, Goldman Sachs statement in paragraph 17, and Bank of
America declining to comment in paragraph 23.)
By Chad Bray
Of DOW JONES [...]

Wachovia to buy back auction-rate securities
Bank reaches agreement with regulators to repurchase about $9 billion
By John Spence, MarketWatch
Last Update: 8/15/2008 12:45:00 PM
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — State and federal regulators said Friday that Wachovia
Corp. has agreed to a preliminary settlement related to the sale of roughly $9
billion in auction-rate securities, the market for which collapsed earlier this
year.
Charlotte, [...]