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Bernanke: We Are Looking at Goldman Sachs role in Greece

• Reuters

The Federal Reserve is examining the role that Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) played in helping Greece arrange credit default swaps, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.

"We are looking into a number of questions related to Goldman Sachs and other companies in their derivatives arrangements with Greece," Bernanke said in response to a question for Senate banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd.