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The failure of IndyMac Bank on July 11, 2008, was the fourth largest bank failure in United States history up until the crisis precipitated even larger failures, [410] and the second largest failure of a regulated thrift. [411] IndyMac Bank's parent corporation was IndyMac Bancorp until the FDIC seized IndyMac Bank. [412]
While S&Ls were freed to pay depositors higher interest rates, the institutions continued to carry large portfolios of loans paying them much lower rates of return; by 1981, 85 percent of the thrifts were losing money and the congressional response was the Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. [5]
The FOMC left rates unchanged the day after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Official Statement: August 5, 2008 2.00% 2.25% 10–1 The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 2 percent. Official statement: April 30, 2008 2.00% 2.25% 8–2 The FOMC cut rates by 25 basis points.
The U.S. central bank then managed to hike interest rates 17 times between 2004 and 2006 — all of those increases in gradual, quarter-point moves — to a high of 5.25 percent. ... Fed interest ...
So we finally got a rate cut — and a supersized one at that.
The Fed cut its federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans — by 0.25 percentage points, lowered the rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, down from its ...
These banks could issue bank notes against specie (gold and silver coins) and the states regulated the reserve requirements, interest rates for loans and deposits, the necessary capital ratio etc. Free banking spread rapidly to other states, and from 1840 to 1863 all banking business was done by state-chartered institutions.
That’s good news for your bank accounts, since another rate cut would probably mean a lower return on your money. At the meeting, held January 28-29, the Fed left interest rates unchanged at 4. ...