The U.S. Federal Reserve responded fast to the coronavirus crisis with open-ended programs to keep financial markets running and ensure major companies could raise cash as they usually do through large capital markets.
FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Leah MillisWASHINGTON: The U.S. Federal Reserve responded fast to the coronavirus crisis with open-ended programs to keep financial markets running and ensure major companies could raise cash as they usually do through large capital markets.
By forcing major parts of the economy to simply stop operating, however, the current crisis poses a direct threat to the hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses that don't raise money by issuing stocks or bonds, but rely on myriad combinations of bank loans, owner's capital and, in some cases, personal credit cards or home equity loans.
Ahead of that, the following summarizes what is known about the Main Street program and what analysts who watch the Fed closely think it might look like:In the US$2.3 trillion emergency response bill enacted on March 27, US$454 billion is set aside for the U.S. Treasury to use for new programs at the Fed, including the one for"Main Street."This is the crisis where"trillions" have become the go-to denomination.
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