The weekend's unprecedented upheaval--culminating Sunday night in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America--bared the Achilles heel of the industry: Brokers finance their daily operations using funding that is apt to disappear quickly and with little warning.

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An even bigger concern is how the debt-ridden railways ministry will secure more funding with bonds from the finance ministry, China Daily notes.

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The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told the Athens daily Ta Nea that he believed the austerity measures were not just working but making up for decades of policy lapses.

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Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said solving the eurozone finance crisis should be the priority.

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Who in their right mind would enter the daily deal space now, or worse, finance such an endeavor?

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Partly because of perceptions that the International Monetary Fund has become too powerful, governments are now considering a wider role for the BIS. Pakistan Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz says that the BIS could provide daily reports on the trading levels of each currency to give monetary authorities a better grasp of currency market movements.

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In a survey of pawnshop customers, Elaine Kempson, from Bristol University's Personal Finance Research Centre, found that over half had pawned possessions to buy daily necessities, including food.

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There is also a lot of upbeat coverage in The Beijing News, China Daily and other media on a mooted Brics reserve fund, as well as a development bank that will finance infrastructure projects among the five members as well as developing countries.

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