Financial news

To learn more about the safety of banks and credit unions, go to the Washington Dept. of Financial Institutions. The Federal Government provides these pages:
myFDICinsurance.gov from the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. See their Information, alerts, and advice for Consumers & Communities. Or click on their link for Consumer Protection. For other investments, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) provides some protections for customers of a failed brokerage firm, but it does not guarantee those investments’ value. For more, go to SIPC’s 7 Most Asked Questions. To see the latest news on what your government is doing to relieve the stresses on financial institutions and markets, go to whitehouse.gov or to the United States Department of the Treasury, www.treas.gov