Bloomberg.com: Economy

Bloomberg.com: Economy: "About 100 or fewer of the 7,000 U.S. banks with less than $10 billion in assets may consider taking advantage of the program, said Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, a Washington trade group representing about 5,000 banks.

``The headline in the local paper that everybody's going to read is, `Local Bank Seeks Government Assistance,''' Fine said in an interview. ``That doesn't look real good to the folks in the local towns.''"

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