WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve policy makers don't expect to know for days whether their Aug 17 discount-rate reduction will succeed at calming markets, Fed watchers say.
Yields on three-month Treasury bills on Monday fell the most since the 1987 stock-market crash as money market funds dumped asset-backed commercial paper in favour of the shortest-maturity government debt.
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