Money Markets
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ECB liquidity floods euro money market and distorts indicators
By Saikat Chatterjee and Abhinav Ramnarayan
August 12, 2020, Reuters
A key euro zone interbank money-market rate is trading below the European Central Bank’s own official rate for the first …
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Bullish investors pull $105bn from US money market funds in four weeks
By Colby Smith and Eric Platt
June 23, 2020, Financial Times
Investors and companies have started to redeploy the record amounts of cash they stashed in ultra-safe money market funds …
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Investors Are Sitting on the Biggest Pile of Cash Ever
By Gunjan Banerji
June 16, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Investors have rarely been this flush with cash.
Grappling with the most economic uncertainty in decades and a head-spinning stretch …
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Threat of negative rates hangs over $4.8tn US money fund industry
By Chris Flood
May 30, 2020, Financial Times
US president Donald Trump’s view that the country should accept the “gift” of negative interest rates would be hugely damaging for the …
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Treasury to Increase Auction Sizes of Longer-Dated Securities
By Kate Davidson and Julia-Ambra Verlaine
May 6, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
The Treasury Department said Wednesday it plans to ramp up auction sizes of longer-dated securities and will …
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Money market stress adds to case for more ECB action
By Dhara Ranasinghe and Tommy Wilkes
April 29, 2020, Reuters
Funding costs in a vital corner of euro zone money markets remain at worryingly high levels even after unprecedented ECB …
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Money funds turn to Fed facility amid record inflows
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
April 2, 2020, Risk
Money market funds (MMFs) are flooding into a U.S. Federal Reserve facility that currently pays a 0% return on cash.
The central …
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BIS sees further challenges to keeping dollar funding flowing
By Saikat Chatterjee
April 1, 2020, Reuters
Recent actions by the U.S. Federal Reserve have made it easier and cheaper to obtain dollars via derivatives markets but other problems must …
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Mutual funds face scrutiny over systemic importance
By Attracta Mooney and Siobhan Riding
March 19, 2020, Financial Times
The mutual fund industry is facing fresh scrutiny over the systemic risks it poses to the financial system after …
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Treasury Department Asks Congress to Let It Backstop Money Markets
By Kate Davidson and Dave Michaels
March 18, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
The Trump administration is asking Congress for authority to develop guarantee programs for the $4 trillion money-market …
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