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'Some firms will fail' - Paulson

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has warned that some financial institutions ''will fail'' in the US despite the $700bn government bail-out programme.

The Federal Reserve and other central banks have cut interest rates in a rare co-ordinated move.

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