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Obama team to prioritise credit flow

By Krishna Guha in Washington and Francesco Guerrera in New York 

Published: January 18 2009 19:46 | Last updated: January 18 2009 21:12

President-elect Barack Obama will demand that banks receiving public support step up lending, top advisers said on Sunday, as they promised to make restoring the flow of credit a top priority for the new US administration.

“I think he is going to have a strong message for the bankers,” David Axelrod, a senior Obama strategist told ABC’s This Week. “We want to see credit flowing again. We don’t want them to sit on any money that they get from taxpayers.”

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