<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081016/bs_nm/us_usa_fed_discount"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081017/2008_10_17t003831_450x280_us_usa_fed_discount.jpg? x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=yDgUnmA2WbmIh_0ocTrfUA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="A trader counts his money on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange October 7, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Financial institutions ran to their lender of last resort for record amounts of cash in the latest week, under extreme pressure from the worst global financial crisis in a generation, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(Reuters)