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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial SystemBetween Monday, March 3, and Monday, March 10, its shares had fallen from $77.32 to $62.30, while the cost to insure $10 million of its bonds had nearly doubled from $316,000 to $619,000. Other investment banks also felt the heat. The next-smallest firm, Lehman Brothers, which was also heavily overweighted in mortgages and real estate, had seen the price of CDS on its bonds jump from $228,000 to $398,000 in the same time. A year before, CDS rates on both banks had been a fraction of thatБЂ”about $35,000. On the Tuesday before my speech, the Fed had unveiled one of its strongest measures yet, the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF). This program was designed to lend as much as $200 billion in Treasury securities to banks, taking federal agency debt and triple-A mortgage-backed securities as collateral. The banks could then use the Treasuries to secure financing. Crucially, the Fed extended the length of the loans from one day to 28 days and made the program available not just to commercial banks but to all primary government dealersБЂ”including the major investment banks that underwrote Treasury debt issues ...» |
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