Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 8:41 a.m. HOUSTON – Oil prices briefly topped $54 a barrel Monday, getting a boost from stock investors who seemed hopeful a new plan to resolve the nation’s banking crisis would spur economic growth.

The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation’s credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors.

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The New Zealand dollar was again carried along by last week’s moves by the United States Federal Reserve, climbing against Uncle Sam’s dollar woes.

The plan to finance purchases of as much as $1 trillion in toxic assets from banks will include programs supported by the Treasury Department’s bailout fund, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

A wide-ranging inquiry into MPs’ expenses is being considered by the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life, the BBC has learned.

For cash-strapped consumers shopping for a car, used would seem like the place to start.

A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.