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How do I find interest rates for Fed Funds, CDs, T-Bills, etc.?

Posted by nlgiu on March 25, 2009

To find daily and weekly rates of interest for commercial paper, CDs, Fed Funds, Treasury-Bills/Bonds, and Eurodollar deposits, go to the Federal Reserve’s website here:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/statisticsdata.htm

Under Interest Rates on the right-hand side of the screen click on the “daily” or “weekly” links.

The Federal Reserve site above also includes money stock and reserve balances, flow of funds accounts,  exchange rates and international data, and bank assets & liabilities data.

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SPEA establishes new scholarship for top undergraduates

Posted by nlgiu on March 5, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 3, 2009

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington today (March 3) announced the first five recipients of a new undergraduate scholarship, the SPEA Academic Admission Award.

The award, created for the school’s highest-achieving newly admitted students, is based on students’ IU cumulative grade point average. Students must be newly admitted to SPEA, enrolled as a full-time student and taking at least six credit hours of SPEA course work for the upcoming semester to qualify. Typically, five of the $2,000 awards will be granted each admission cycle.  …

For the entire news release … http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10120.html

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