Financials stocks soar on talk Obama may back 'bad bank'

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 09:16 AM EST

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of U.S. banks posted strong pre-open gains Wednesday on reports that the Obama administration may adopt a plan to buy bad assets in the financial system and create a so-called "bad bank" to hold them.

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