ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) ? Panicky depositors rushed to pull money from banks and leaders in the Caribbean and Latin America urged calm on Wednesday, concerned that their slumping economies could be harmed by the fraud case against Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

Hundreds of people lined up outside two branches of the Bank of Antigua, a Stanford-owned institution that has been flooded with fearful customers since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint Tuesday accusing him of an $8 billion fraud.

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