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To promote the restoration of orderly conditions in financial markets, the Federal Reserve Board approved temporary changes to its primary credit discount window facility.
The Board approved a 50 basis point reduction in the primary credit rate to 5-3/4 percent, to narrow the spread between the primary credit rate and the Federal Open Market Committee's target federal funds rate to 50 basis points.
The Board is also announcing a change to the Reserve Banks' usual practices to allow the provision of term financing for as long as 30 days, renewable by the borrower.
These changes will remain in place until the Federal Reserve determines that market liquidity has improved materially. These changes are designed to provide depositories with greater assurance about the cost and availability of funding.
The Federal Reserve will continue to accept a broad range of collateral for discount window loans, including home mortgages and related assets. Existing collateral margins will be maintained.
In taking this action, the Board approved the requests submitted by the Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco. - U.S. Federal Reserve News Release
Posted August 17th, 2007 by Armen Hareyan
Mortgage Interest Rates
The Fed move is very unexpected and surprising. Fed is obviously under pressure to do this, but I don't think this is a right move. If the economy is in general healthy, as it was stated before, the entire economy should not suffer because few companies irresponsibly approved mortgage rates. The entire economy should not pay the cost for the mistakes of only one sector. Do you think we will see interest rates for home mortgages coming down? If yes for how long and how many percent?