The Wall Street Journal is reporting Treasury Is Close to Finalizing
Plan to Backstop Fannie, Freddie.

New $100 Minimums for Treasury Marketable Securities to Debut in April, Announces Treasurydirect.gov.

A strong financial system is vitally important - not for Wall Street, not for bankers, but for working Americans. When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit – Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs. And when our financial system is under stress, millions of working Americans bear the consequences.

Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Phillip Swagel Statement for the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. announced the next steps of his capital markets competitiveness action plan on June 27, focusing on maintaining the global leadership of America's capital markets.