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aleablog.com - 10/14/2008
“Unlimited” Dollar Liquidity
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Nothing like “unlimited” dollar liquidity to send Libor to a new high of 482 bp. OIS-Libor: 365 bp at record TED Spread: 464 bp new record Fed press release : In order to provide broad access to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the ...
federalreserve.gov - 10/13/2008
FRB: Press Release--Federal Reserve and other central banks announce further measures to provide ...
— federalreserve.gov — Release Date: October 13, 2008 For release at 2:00 a.m. EDT In order to provide broad access... to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and ... (more) FRB: Press Release--Federal Reserve and other central ...

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"Are Central Banks Making Libor WORSE?"
nakedcapitalism.com - 10/12/2008
"Are Central Banks Making Libor WORSE?"
— nakedcapitalism.com — Equity analyst and market commentator James Bianco of Arbor Research e-maileda a discussion of the breakdown of... interbank lending to us along with a few others, His note illustrates a point made by FT Alphaville a couple of weeks ago that we have ... (more) "Are Central Banks Making Libor WORSE?"

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bloomberg.com - 10/9/2008
Libor Dollar Rate Jumps to Highest in Year; Credit Stays Frozen
— bloomberg.com — Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of borrowing in dollars for three months in London soared to... the highest level this year as coordinated interest-rate reductions worldwide failed to revive lending among banks for any longer than a day. Attempts by ... (more) Libor Dollar Rate Jumps to Highest in Year; Credit Stays ...

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Decline and Fall of Western Civilization — ... as to why term lending would reappear when central bank liquidity on offer is essentially limitless at the moment. but it doesn't have to make sense to me if it happens.

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