Doubts over US bail out

Doubts over the speed at which the US financial bail-out plan can be introduced have emerged from both Democrats and Republicans.



Democratic Congressman Barney Frank said it was entirely unreasonable to expect Congress to give the rescue plan the go-ahead quickly.



Meanwhile, President George W Bush said the World was watching to see if the US government could act quickly to shore up our markets.



Few details of the $700 billion dollar package have been announced.



Meetings reportedly took place over the weekend between Federal Reserve Head, Ben Bernanke, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and members of Congress to try to seek consensus on the plan.



However uncertainty over how the programme will work caused the Dow Jones share index to fall by more than 370 points wiping out the gains made from Friday\'s rally.