“Less than a week after Europe and the United States coordinated moves to ease the crisis, the Swiss government said it would take a 9 percent stake in UBS, the financial giant that has been among the hardest hit by losses from American subprime mortgage debt, and provide it with 6 billion Swiss francs ($5.36 billion) in capital.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/worldbusiness/17swiss.html?_r=1
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