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Federal Reserve Press Release
Release Date: March 24, 2009
For release at 10:00 a.m. EDT
On March 23, 2009, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $150 billion in 84-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Following are the results of the auction:
Stop-out rate: 0.250 percent
Total propositions submitted: $101.642 billion
Total propositions accepted: $101.642 billion
Bid/cover ratio: 0.68
Number of bidders: 103
The awarded loans will settle on March 26, 2009, and will mature on June 18, 2009. 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 11:30 a.m. EDT on March 24, 2009. Participants have until 12:30 p.m. EDT on March 24, 2009, to inform their local Reserve Bank of any error
