One is that politicians, especially those from Texas, have historically wanted easier policy from the Fed.
Apart from the Fed minutes, U.S. corporate earnings will draw attention later in the week.
The difference is that borrowing from the Fed creates new reserves for the banking system.
But for now, the loud signal from the Fed is to borrow dollars while you can.
Lehman had plenty of collateral to pledge for cash from the Fed to stop the run.
Julian Robertson was another billionaire investor who took advantage of the program, filings from the Fed show.
Some market watchers suggested that news meant more stimulus from the Fed was not a foregone conclusion.
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But it's going to be hard to make much upward progress without aggressive action from the Fed.
Federal funds futures were indicating expectations for a 75 basis point cut from the Fed March 18.
The Great Recession is very similar in origin, but the policy response was different from the Fed.
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Players in the sector have priced in a next round of easing from the Fed pretty aggressively.
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Paulson said investment banks borrowing from the Fed should give regulators enough information to allow sound lending decisions.
When rates begin to rise, it will be because the market has taken back control from the Fed.
Analyses using traditional models have tended to blame the bubble on overly loose monetary policy from the Fed.
This reduction was aimed at encouraging banks to borrow more freely from the Fed rather than severely tightening credit.
Those signals from the Fed, coupled with the EU debt crisis, has U.S. companies wary about investing and hiring.
"People were more interested in seeing a positive tone from the Fed than in more easing, " Mr. Cippoletti said.
The money will get into the hands of speculators at the big banks, those that can borrow from the Fed.
The three-legged options play could be a sign the investor expects monetary policy from the Fed to send shares higher.
That kind of takes some downward pressure away from this afternoon's anticipated release from the Fed, '' Fort Pitt's Caughey said.
Foreign banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank also borrowed from the Fed to overcome their liquidity crises.
Yet the politicians, thinking that millions of shaky mortgages can be saved, pine for more interest rate relief from the Fed.
With an overwhelming majority anticipating the QE3 from the Fed, we would anyway not be selling until a top was confirmed.
It is not difficult to work out that, from the Fed's point of view, this brings them dangerously close to zero.
Wall Street muck-a-mucks are dreaming of a trillion-dollar gift from the Fed to somehow bolster home prices and set a floor under depreciating prices.
More has been funded by banks borrowing cheaply from the Fed before parking their Treasury holdings back at the Fed as reserves.
In my opinion though, I think the probability of another action by Japan is much greater than any move from the Fed.
Nevertheless, it will have real consequences at the margin by shifting bank borrowing further away from the Fed and toward the market.
Market participants have been hoping for some sort of stimulus or quantitative easing from the Fed but thus far have been disappointed.
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There has been no recent increase in bank borrowing from the Fed.
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