(Reuters) – The emergency lending programs set up by the Federal Reserve to support financial markets served as successful backstops, but the U.S. economy still faces major obstacles at a time when millions of Americans are unemployed, state and local governments are struggling and coronavirus infections are rising, a senior official at the New York Fed said on Monday.
“In terms of what’s missing, or what next steps could be we still have a big hole,” Daleep Singh, head of the markets desk at the New York Fed, said during a virtual event organized by the Institute of International Finance. “Those are very big challenges that remain.”
(Reporting by Jonnelle Marte; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
