By Rob Blackwell

SEP 8, 2009 9:43am ET

'09 Failure Total Rises to 89 After Five More Collapses

Federal and state regulators shut five banks in Iowa, Missouri, Arizona and Illinois late Friday, raising the number of failures this year to 89.

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