excess reserves

The only time the system has had excess reserves was during the Depression.

There might be an outside chance of option 5 - cutting the rate for excess reserves.

But it does force down interest rates (like in Japan) as the banks try to clear their excess reserves.

Between 1929 and 1939, excess reserves increased from zero to nearly 10 percent of total member bank deposits.

The banks had excess reserves, and lending rates were in the area of 26 to 29 percent, with few borrowers.

On March 20, 2013, excess reserves stood at $1.76 trillion.

Excess reserves may be lent in the Fed funds market to other banks, thus driving down rates.

The banks generally maintain large excess reserves with consequent loss of potential profits.

In any case, monetary policy cannot address only liquidity problems - and banks are flush with excess reserves.

The Fed, which had been widely expected to drain excess reserves from the banking system yesterday, chose instead to stay out of the market.

After the markets tumbled, many banks increased their precautionary holdings of excess reserves.

However, banks are choosing to leave the great bulk of their excess reserves idle, in most cases on deposit with the Fed.

The property has $52 million outstanding on its mortgage, which will have to be repaid to the city along with the excess reserves.

The Fed's lending activities have indeed resulted in a large increase in the excess reserves held by banks.

In some cases, banks have attacked the excess reserves by subtracting funds from the reserve and adding them to profits.

A portion of excess reserves (or even all of them) may be desired reserves.

For the better part of 2009, throughout the great expansion in excess reserves, the potential inflationary effects have been amply debated.

"This could also be taken as another sign of the Fed's accommodative stance, because excess reserves increase a bank's lending capacity," he said.

Excess reserves - bank reserves in excess of the reserve requirement.

Free reserves - the amount by which excess reserves exceed borrowed reserves.

We don't have the excess reserves Tucson has, but we've got enough reserves to serve their and our needs for seven to nine years."

"Excess reserves will make the deficit look smaller - over $1 billion smaller in this coming fiscal year.

They assumed that once the Government ran out of excess reserves it would dip into the foreign cash that anchored the exchange rate.

However, some banks may choose to hold their excess reserves in order to facilitate upcoming transactions or meet contractual clearing balance requirements.

An institution that holds reserves in excess of the required amount is said to hold excess reserves.