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>> susie: good evening everyone. bank stocks rallied today, and they gave a boost to the dow. behind the move, tom, new global banking rules agreed to over the weekend in basel, switzerland. the requirements aim to prevent financial crises in the future, and to make the global banking system safer. >> tom: the most critical reform, susie, is a rule requiring banks to raise their capital cushion. in some cases, banks will triple the funds on reserve. many american banks already meet these standards, but european firms may need to raise more money. regulators around the world have been...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. bank stocks rallied today, and they gave a boost to the dow. behind the move, tom, new global banking rules agreed to over the weekend in basel, switzerland. the requirements aim to prevent financial crises in the future, and to make the global banking system safer. >> tom: the most critical reform, susie, is a rule requiring banks to raise their capital cushion. in some cases, banks will triple the funds on reserve. many american ban...

>> susie: good evening everyone. bank stocks rallied today, and they gave a boost to the dow. behind the move, tom, new global banking rules agreed to over the weekend in basel, switzerland. the requirements aim to prevent financial crises in the future, and to make the global banking system safer. >> tom: the most critical reform, susie, is a rule requiring banks to raise their capital cushion. in some cases, banks will triple the funds on reserve. many american banks already meet these standards, but european firms may need to raise more money. regulators around the world have been...

this program is made possible this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. bank stocks rallied today, and they gave a boost to the dow. behind the move, tom, new global banking rules agreed to over the weekend in basel, switzerland. the requirements aim to prevent financial crises in the future, and to make the global banking system safer. >> tom: the most critical reform, susie, is a rule requiring banks to raise their capital cushion. in some cases, banks will triple the funds...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight; i'm joined by suzanne pratt. stocks posted modest gains today, but trading volume was light. in fact, this will most likely be one of the lowest volume days of the year. tom, traders said they didn't want to buy or sell until they see what the federal reserve does tomorrow. that's when policymakers will meet to review the state of the economy. >> tom: with few new jobs being crea...