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Top Banks Borrow $2B From Fed

Bid to encourage other banks to borrow to shore up credit markets

Posted Aug 23, 2007 5:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – America's biggest banks—Citigroup, Bank of America, J.P.Morgan Chase and Wachovia— have borrowed a total of $2 billion from the Federal Reserve at the government's so-called discount window. It's an attempt to shore up the faltering credit markets by encouraging smaller banks to...   Read full story »

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