rediscount rate

The Bank does not announce its rediscount rate, but instead invites the discount houses to offer it bills.

You take the rediscount rate -" Duff glanced at his watch.

It lends money out at an artificially cheap rate (the rediscount rate) and conducts open market purchases.

The second wave of bank failures occurred "after the Federal Reserve System raised the rediscount rate to staunch an outflow of gold" around the end of 1931.

If the Bank of England puts up its rediscount rate, discount houses will have to put up their rate of discount on bills (i.e. pay a lower price for them).

As ex officio Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, he issued severe warnings and, increased rediscount rates in order to prevent the inflation that the European allies were experiencing.

The Reserve Bank raised its rediscount rate to 17.3 percent, from 17 percent - the highest in two years - the day after the bank's governor, Bob Johnston, called for restraint to cure Australia's "state of self-indulgence.

The board of directors, acting on my advice, would shower me with stock options, severance guarantees, health insurance, golden parachutes, free milk and cookies twice a day, bonds, debentures, certified checks, commercial paper, rediscount rates, bills of attainder.