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Martin Foil's company sells yarn that winds up in clothes from the Gap, Ralph Lauren and American Apparel, and business is growing. He's buying new machines and hopes to hire as many as 200 workers this year....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big banks that got big bailout bucks should return the favor by lending more to qualified small businesses, President Barack Obama says....

President Barack Obama chastised Wall Street firms on Tuesday for resisting tighter regulations of their industry and said they had not done enough to boost lending to small businesses.

Obama is set to announce initiatives aimed at boosting credit to small businesses, including measures to make it easier for small banks to access TARP.