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Press Release

Federal Reserve Press Release

Release Date: March 25, 2008

For release at 10:00 a.m. EDT

On March 24, 2008, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $50 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility.  Following are the results of the auction:

Stop-out rate: 2.615 percent
     
Total propositions submitted: $88.869 billion
Total propositions accepted: $50.000 billion
Bid/cover ratio: 1.78
     
Number of bidders: 88

Bids at the stop-out rate were prorated at 98.87% and resulting awards were rounded to the nearest $10,000 (except that all awards below $10,000 are rounded up to $10,000).

The awarded loans will settle on March 27, 2008, and will mature on April 24, 2008.  The stop-out rate shown above will apply to all awarded loans.

Institutions that submitted winning bids will be contacted by their respective Reserve Banks by noon EDT on March 25, 2008.  Participants have until 3:00 p.m. EDT on March 25, 2008, to inform their local Reserve Bank of any error.

 
Last update: March 25, 2008