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Fed takes emergency steps to slash rates and ease bank rules

by AP Economics Writer
| March 15, 2020 3:05 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve took massive emergency action Sunday to try to help the economy withstand the coronavirus by slashing its benchmark interest rate to near zero and saying it would buy $700 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds.

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