G7 Issues Joint Statement On Addressing Financial Crisis

The Group of Seven (G7) issued a joint statement following its meeting in Washington DC addressing the ongoing financial crisis. The text is copied below. "The G-7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support global economic growth. We agree to: 1. Take decisive action and use all available tools to support systemically important financial institutions and prevent their failure. 2. Take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit and money markets and ensure that banks and other financial institutions have broad access to liquidity and funding. 3. Ensure that our banks and other major financial intermediaries, as needed, can raise capital from public as well as private sources, in... [read full story]