Fed Slashes Rates

Date April 12, 2008

In an effort to boost market liquidity, the Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate to 3.25 percent from 3.5 percent and launched a new lending program through which money will be moved from securities dealers to the securitization markets.
The effort — the latest attempt to stabilize prices of bonds backed by residential loans as delinquencies […]

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