The Federal Reserve will be continuing its overnight funding operations through at least January 2020 and will buy Treasury bills through the second quarter, the central bank announced Friday.
Following a disruption in short-term lending markets in mid-September that sent interest rates soaring, the Fed begin conducting its own operations to provide financial institutions with cash in exchange for ultra-safe assets like government bonds.
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