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Treasury: LIBOR process flawed, poses risk

By Marcy Gordon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The process for setting a key global interest rate is flawed and poses a risk to the stability of financial markets, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department.

Banks are capable of manipulating the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research said in the report released Friday.

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