Exploring the global reaction to Obama’s housing bill
President Obama’s plan to stave off foreclosures is reverberating in markets around the world, where the subprime mortgage crisis has left global financial systems reeling. For the global reaction we talk with the Financial Times’ Michael Hunter in London and the BBC’s Asia Business correspondent Juliana Liu in Singapore.
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