Fed emergency lending to banks ticks down in latest week

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Loans from the U.S. central bank’s discount window also ticked down, to $4 billion on Wednesday from $4.2 billion on May 24, the data showed.

Bank Term Funding Program loans – an emergency program created to soothe bank sector stress after the March regional bank failures – rose to $93.6 billion, from $91.9 billion a week earlier.

Lending via all three programs stood at $285.7 billion, versus $288.7 billion on May 24. The total size of the Fed’s balance sheet was $8.436 trillion, down from $8.486 trillion a week earlier.