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brokers.com slash C me group. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lou downplaying

expectations for an emergency response to global market turbulence

when a group of 20 finance chiefs and central bankers meet this week in China.

I don't think this is a moment in time

when you're going to see individual countries make the kinds of specific

commitments that have been made in some other contexts that have been marked by real

crisis. This is not a moment of crisis. This is a moment where you've got real economies

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