61.   The markets could continue to be volatile, he cautioned, while the government develops a plan to deal with the banking crisis.

62.   The meeting took place as Japan sinks deeper into recession, after a decade of slow growth and a deepening banking crisis.

63.   The rescue was portrayed as a move to forestall a banking crisis.

64.   The Russian banking crisis that analysts have long predicted actually has been going on for more than a year.

65.   The president urged other countries to work on their banking crises just as the United States had with the savings and loan collapse.

66.   The Russian central bank will introduce Lombard lending to commercial banks and lower reserve requirements to help ease a funds shortage that caused a banking crisis last summer.

67.   The scope of the Japanese banking crisis is almost unimaginable if Standard and Poor, the American agency that probes such matters, is correct.

68.   The U.S. currency also is likely to gain versus the yen as slow growth and a banking crisis in Japan made traders reluctant to hold yen.

69.   There has been growing apprehension that the Japanese banking crisis may threaten economies in the West and the long boom on Wall Street.

70.   There is also the specter of Japan, where an unwillingness to tackle a domestic banking crisis has kept the economy sputtering for a decade.