Sentences with phrase «dollar swap lines»

Apart from dollar swap lines (which the Fed is likely to reopen to Europe in efforts to reduce banking strains there), more QE is all the Fed can hope to offer.

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In response, the Fed reduced the federal funds rate to essentially zero by mid-December, instituted swap lines to provide dollar liquidity to foreign central banks, added new liquidity facilities to target specific sectors of the shadow banking system and began to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases.

-- For now, the press is reporting that central banks are mulling dollar supply via bilateral swap lines in the case of a liquidity squeeze upon a «no» vote.