Last Modified: 01 Oct 2008 By: Channel 4 News Inside the morning meeting. In the US, Senate is meeting this evening to vote on an amended version of the $700bn bailout plan. Sadly the vote will be after the programme as it's due to take place around midnight BST, but there is likely to be a lot of movement in the build up. It seems the main difference between this package and the one Congress rejected on Monday is it adds in protection for deposits, along the lines of the protection already guaranteed in the UK. Congress will then get another opportunity to vote tomorrow. "They're trying to get momentum to get Congress behind it." "But only a third of Senators are up for election next month, unlike Congress." Meanwhile things are moving along in the UK. "The markets are coming back from the abyss, as it were," seemingly as a...
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