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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sweeping government measures to rescue the financial system and restore confidence in shaky markets spurred a huge relief rally in stocks on Friday, ending a week when the financial landscape underwent the most dramatic reshaping since the Great Depression.

The benchmark S&P 500 index viagra kaufen had its biggest two-day rally since October 21, 1987, two days after the 1987 stock market crash.

Led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, officials are working on a solution to mop up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad mortgage debt.

In another extraordinary action, the United States joined the United Kingdom in temporarily banning bets that financial stocks will fall, while the Federal Reserve said it will use $50 billion to back money-market mutual funds.

The moves came at the end of an agonizing week for Wall Street, in which Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, insurer American International Group (AIG.N) was bailed out by the government and Merrill Lynch (MER.N) was forced into a shotgun marriage with Bank of America (BAC.N). Investors had worried that the confluence of crises severely threatened the stability of the U.S. economy.

But even with the furious two-day rally, stocks still ended essentially

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