British-Hungarian financier and philanthropist George Soros warned in an interview with Budapest's Nepszabadsag newspaper that it is too early to say if markets will stabilize after last week's panic and described the current situation as the crisis of a lifetime.
The US government announced a 250 billion US dollars plan to purchase stakes in a wide variety of banks in an effort to restore confidence in the sector. President George W Bush said the move would help to return stability to the US banking sector and ultimately help preserve free markets.
Up to £50bn of taxpayers' cash is to be injected into four of Britain's biggest banks through the government's rescue package, the BBC has learned. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Barclays is to sell off shares, the majority of which the government is expected to buy.
Asian markets have reacted positively to efforts by world leaders to end the recent financial turmoil. Sydney's benchmark index leapt 5.5%, as markets in South Korea and Singapore opened up around 3%. Tokyo's market was closed for a public holiday.
EU leaders earlier said no big bank would be allowed to fail, as they agreed a plan to tackle the crisis.
Argentina's Soy King, Gustavo Grobocopatel warned that if export taxes remain averaging 35%, and commodities don't recover prices of early 2008, next year many people will be going bankrupt because with current costs oilseeds production is not viable.
United States economist Paul Krugman, a well-known critic of the President George Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics on Monday.
China's trade surplus widened to a record 29.3 billion US dollars in September as exports withstood the global economic slowdown and falling commodity prices reduced the import bill.
Coordinated global action is starting to reverse the tide of the financial crisis, but governments also need to deploy all instruments to limit damage to the real economy, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told world financial leaders meeting in Washington.
Argentina's Economy Minister Carlos Fernández, not known for his loquacity, spoke at large about the international financial market meltdown during the IMF and World Bank annual assemblies in Washington.
The days when emerging economies were depended on the International Monetary Fund, IMF are over and so are over the days when Latinamerica had no voice in international affairs, said Brazilian president Lula da Silva in Spain.