To help relieve the pressures in the interbank markets, the Federal Reserve among other actions recently introduced a term auction facility (TAF), through which prespecified amounts of discount window credit can be auctioned to eligible borrowers, and we have been working closely and cooperatively with other central banks to address market strains that could hamper the achievement of our broader economic objectives.

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Carmakers' embrace of "employee discount pricing" this summer helped their short-term bottom line, but it hurt their brands in the process.

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Pound futures are trading at a discount to spot prices, a reflection of the fact that short-term interest rates are higher in London than they are here.

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At the heart of Buffett's simple but highly effective strategy is having the discipline to recognize when the market is not properly reflecting the true long-term value of a particular business, which can be calculated by discounting its likely future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate.

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If shares change in value, that must reflect a change in investors' assessment of either the prospective dividend flow (for example, because of fears about the future level of profits) or the right discount rate (for example, because of a change in inflationary prospects or in long-term real interest rates), or both.

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