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Obama hammers Wall Street banks

By Tom Braithwaite in Washington and Francesco Guerrera in New York

Published: January 21 2010 16:42 | Last updated: January 22 2010 00:11

The global banking industry was thrown into turmoil on Thursday after President Barack Obama , responding to public rage over the financial crisis, proposed the most far-reaching overhaul of Wall Street since the 1930s.

In reforms that could force the restructuring of some of the biggest names in US finance, including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, Mr Obama promised that “never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail”.

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