<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081010/bs_nm/us_financial_g7_paulson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081011/2008_10_10t205827_450x330_us_financial_g7_paulson. jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=Aa04OprEZoV6yiVZJRm4Ew--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at a news conference after the G7 Ministerial meeting in Washington October 10, 2008. The world's rich nations vowed on Friday to take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit markets and ensure banks can raise money but they offered no collective course of action to avert a deep global recession. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday the United States was developing plans to buy equity in financial institutions if necessary to halt market turmoil.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(Reuters)