WASHINGTON - Borrowing at the discount window, for decades a contingency to avoid at almost any cost, is no longer taboo. Really. Six months after the Federal Reserve Board made changes meant to ...

With Windows 10 now officially reaching the end of support, upgrading to Windows 11 has become a practical step rather than ...

AMELIA ISLAND, Florida, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is considering new rules to break the "stigma" around borrowing from the central bank's discount window to cover short-term cash ...

The discount window at the Federal Reserve allows banks to borrow money at an above-market rate in exchange for high-quality collateral. The facility is always available to use, but typically nobody ...

Buying a netbook with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed? That's not a bad option, but here's something you might not realize: Starter Edition isn't really any "lighter" or faster than Home Premium. So ...

July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. banks should incorporate the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facility known as the "discount window" as part of their contingency funding plans, federal banking regulators ...

Mimicking the discounts it has been offering to consumers, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will temporarily discount upgrades to Windows 7 Professional. Windows 7 Professional is the version aimed ...

In the past several weeks, banks have been taking out emergency loans from the Federal Reserve to ensure they can cover withdrawals from customers. In the week that ended Wednesday, banks tapped more ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced discounts for Windows Azure subscribers, based on their monthly financial commitments. The discounts are 20 percent, 23 percent or 27 percent, relative to pay-as-you-go ...

When banks are under financial stress, where do they turn for help? Many go to the Federal Reserve, which, through its discount window, serves as a "lender of last resort" for banks. Last month, the ...

You don’t get much more big picture than the Federal Reserve on a Sunday afternoon pulling out all the stops. That huge cut in its short-term interest rate — another big bond buying program — echoes ...

As promised, Microsoft on Saturday ended the deep discounts on Windows 7 pre-orders and immediately bumped up the suggested list prices of the upgrades to the new operating system to between $119.99 ...