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Published 11/24/2008 by daniel.gross at The Big Money

On Friday afternoon, the markets shot up nearly 7 percent following the  news  that President-elect Obama was poised to name Timothy Geithner , president of the New York Federal Reserve, as the next treasury secretary. Why was this leak worth several hundred billion dollars in market capitalization? read more (link)

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