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| Washington Mutual replaces Killinger as chairman Washington Mutual Corp., hard-hit by the mortgage and credit crises, said Monday it will replace Chief Executive Kerry Killinger as chairman of the board and take other steps to improve corporate governance. |
| A New Way to Generate Mortgages Regulators, bankers and traders, led by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., all pledged to do their best to get a “covered bond market” going in the U.S. |
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| Cullen sticks to tax cut line Families with mortgages would gain more if interest rates kept falling than they would from planned tax cuts in next week's Budget, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said yesterday. |
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