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The big squeeze: As interest rates lower, so do banks’ profit margins
The big squeeze: As interest rates lower, so do banks’ profit margins

Select Bank’s founders last July had no idea they were opening the bank just before interest rates would take a sudden, sustained dive.

05/11/08 10:59 PM

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