Business and Finance
The European Central Bank is scrambling to reassure markets that Thursday's expiration of a bank-lending facility won't destabilize the financial system, even as banks across the region remain wary of lending to one another.</br></br>The Bank for International Settlements warned governments and central banks that keeping interest rates too low or failing to act quickly to cut deficits could sow the seeds for the next crisis.</br></br>---</br></br>Treasury yields are falling as uneasiness about the global economic outlook is causing investors to gravitate toward U.S. government debt. The Dow industrials fell 5.29 points to 10138.52.</br></br>---