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Wall St eyes influence over rescue plan

By Francesco Guerrera and Henny Sender in New York

Published: February 15 2009 23:30 | Last updated: February 15 2009 23:30

Wall Street is to lobby the Obama administration to relax its plans for stringent reviews of banks’ financial health and capital injections that could leave the government as a large shareholder in many of those institutions.

People close to the situation say financial groups were frustrated by the administration’s decision not to hold detailed talks with the industry before last week’s release of its $2,000bn (£1,390bn) financial rescue plan.

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