Treasury provides $15B from bailout pot to 7 banks

The government says it has supplied another $15 billion to seven banks in the latest round of payments from the $700 billion rescue fund.
   
The Treasury Department says the biggest payment in the new round totaled $7.58 billion to Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
   
The latest payments bring the amount the government has committed to buying bank stock as a way of bolstering the financial system to $187.5 billion. Treasury says it has provided support to financial institutions in 41 states and Puerto Rico.