rediscount rate
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Directors of the New York Federal Reserve Bank held a lengthy and private meeting, after which, however, no change was announced in the rediscount rate.
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For the seventh time since the stockmarket crash of October 1929, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week lowered its rediscount rate.
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Thus it may be that the recent advance of the New York Reserve rediscount rate will mark a "turn" in business from expansion to contraction.
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But without direct controls, it had to rely on an indirect method: it hiked the rediscount rate.
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As credit soared, the FRB put on the brakes by boosting the rediscount rate to member banks, thus making borrowing more expensive.
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