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<font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread bets and CFDs on a Fed rate cut should consider that it could happen rather soon. The Fed has announced that it is</span><a title="commercial paper, Fed rate cut, spread bets Fed rate, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, spread betting interest rates, contracts for differences" target="_blank" id="e.r4" href="http://www.yieldingwealth.com/the-credit-market-freeze-how-it-works-and-how-it-affects-you/" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">buying so-called &quot;commercial paper&quot;</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in an effort to help increase liquidity. As an additional measure, the </span><a title="commercial paper, Fed rate cut, spread bets Fed rate, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, spread betting interest rates, contracts for differences" target="_blank" id="g559" href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/07/markets/dollar/?postversion=2008100710" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Fed is also mulling a rate cut</a> (which is causing problems for the U.S. dollar in forex trading).<br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> The U.S. Fed rate cut may be one of many cuts around in the world. In an effort to boost the liquidity of the global credit market, </span><a title="commercial paper, Fed rate cut, spread bets Fed rate, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, spread betting interest rates, contracts for differences, Libor rate" target="_blank" id="t-l5" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/odds-rise-coordinated-global-rate/story.aspx?guid=%7B958C6B14-54EA-4F26-9549-57B456D3B289%7D" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">rate cuts by central banks</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> around the world may be made in tandem. This move is coming in response to the fact that the </span><a title="commercial paper, Fed rate cut, spread bets Fed rate, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, spread betting interest rates, contracts for differences, Libor rate" target="_blank" id="rv80" href="http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/10/credit-crisis-libor-rate-increases.html" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Libor rate continues to rise</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, indicating that bank to bank lending remains tight.</span></font> 9 application/xml false CFDs commercial paper contracts for differences Fed rate cut Libor rate spread bets spread bets Fed rate spread betting spread betting interest rates Spread betting on interest rates http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.19 false true false false true 133535 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web