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In the Main Street Lending Facility, eligible borrowers can have up to 10,000 employees or up to $2.5 billion in revenue.
Under new program announced last night, U.S. Treasury will provide $10 billion of credit protection for money-market mutual funds.
As U.S. braces for virus fallout to get worse, the Commercial Paper Funding Facility and Primary Dealer Credit Facility are designed to support corporate liquidity.
Fed watchers increasingly predict that U.S. interest rates will soon hit zero.
With the largest rate cut since 2008, the Fed aims to stabilize markets amid global spread of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, outside the central bank, debate swirls about what tools the Fed will have available when the next downturn strikes.
Fed expects to stay on the sidelines throughout 2020 presidential election.
The Fed is investigating after an undetermined problem led to delay in processing of ACH payments.
Fed makes second straight cut, but splits on further action.
The Applied Critical Thinking (ACT) unit is tasked with poking holes in the most basic assumptions the central bankers make.