Fed to lend $20 billion to banks
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The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was lending $20 billion to banks through the first of four special auctions designed to help alleviate the credit crunch on Wall Street.
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The dollar fell to a fresh 20-month low  against the euro on Monday, carrying over its weakness from  late last week, when soft U.S. factory data reinforced  expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates  next year.
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The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued guidance today urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on home mortgages.
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The Bank of England is set to offer lenders an extra Â£10bn in funds to limit the impact of a credit crunch.
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The US Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates at 5.25% as evidence grows of a slowing economy.
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Traders raised bets the Federal Reserve will lift its interest-rate target for overnight loans between banks in December after a government report showed the US last month added almost twice the number of jobs expected.
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The US Federal Reserve decided Tuesday to raise the federal funds rate, which commercial banks charge each other on overnight loans, by a quarter percentage points to 1.75 percent.
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The nation's fourth-largest bank plans to shore up $3.5 billion
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The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis.
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The Fed joined with other central banks to ease pressure on the credit markets Wednesday.
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The Federal Reserve is providing the loans as part of an unprecedented auction process to ease a global credit crisis and make sure financial institutions can keep lending to customers.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee on September 20, a spokesman for the panel said on Thursday.
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The Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts and injections of liquidity should help stabilize struggling housing and financial markets, and inflation should moderate later this year, Atlanta Fed Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Friday.
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All 12 regional Federal Reserve banks asked the central bank's board to hold the cost of emergency Fed loans steady in April and May, with most bank directors expecting the U.S. economy to resume a moderate expansion over the rest of the year.
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The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates this week, maybe by 50 basis points.
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter to a US senator that the central bank would act &quot;as needed&quot; to ease the impact of a credit squeeze on the US economy.
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The Federal Reserve launched a concerted effort with central banks around the world to try to get financial institutions to lend money more readily, its latest attempt to help thaw a frozen financial system.