The Federal Reserve on Monday said it had extended through next March four backstop lending programs that helped to stabilize short-term funding markets when the coronavirus pandemic hit this past spring.

The extensions were widely expected and don’t apply to any of the lending programs that the Treasury Department earlier this month said it would not renew.

Treasury…

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