It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.

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Thus the interest rate that the Fed pays should tend to put a floor under short-term market rates, including our policy target, the federal-funds rate.

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Tim Lord cited alleged communications from the "31st floor" of Barclays HQ - which housed senior executives - about the benchmark market interest rate.

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