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Unidentified traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange one week after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are placed into US government conservatorship and on the same day that 158-year old global financial-services giant Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. files for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch & Co. is sold to Bank of America, New York City, 15 September, 2008.

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