rediscount rate
Americannoun
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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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As interest rates rose, Wall Street wondered whether the Federal Reserve System would raise its 3% rediscount rate, which for some time has been less than the short-term borrowing rate the Treasury pays.
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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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By lowering the rediscount rate the Board can indirectly induce the reverse process.
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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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