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New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year
By Michael S. Derby
December 12, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday it is again increasing the scope of liquidity operations it …
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Fed Opens Door to Buying More Than T-Bills If Needed to Fix Repo
By Alex Harris, Benjamin Purvis, and Christopher Condon
December 11, 2019, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve is willing to extend its reserve management related purchases of Treasuries to coupon-bearing securities if …
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Santelli Exchange: Year-end repo operations draw high demand
UBS U.S. Chief Economist Seth Carpenter and CNBC’s Rick Santelli discuss Fed intervention and the upcoming settlement in supply falling on tax day.…
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Repo Blowup Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds: BIS
Claudio Borio, head of the monetary and economic department at the Bank for International Settlements, discuses a new analysis from the BIS that says recent repo market mayhem was not …
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Repo Market Turmoil Prompts a Full-Scale Review
The repo turmoil traders faced in September has prompted a full-scale review by regulators who identified potential risks to the U.S. financial system. Bloomberg’s Sarah Ponczek reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: …
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Repo Firepower Reduced by Falling Cash Levels at Big U.S. Banks
By Yalman Onaran
December 10, 2019, Bloomberg
Even as hedge funds and smaller broker-dealers lean more heavily on the biggest U.S. banks for borrowing in repo markets, the lenders’ cash …
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Repo rupture at year-end could lead to ‘QE4’ – Credit Suisse analyst
By Jonnelle Marte
December 10, 2019, Reuters
The Federal Reserve’s efforts to calm money markets could fall short at the end of the year, potentially leading to a spike in …
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Investors Gird for Year-End Turmoil in Cash Markets
By Daniel Kruger and Julia-Ambra Verlaine
December 8, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
Investors and policy makers are bracing for new disruptions to short-term cash markets going into the end …
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Repo Market Minnows Say Fixing the Mess Means Going Beyond Big Banks
By Alex Harris and Edward Bolingbroke
December 6, 2019, Bloomberg
If September’s dysfunction in the market for repurchase agreements has revealed anything, the biggest impediment is the dominance of a …
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Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says
By Liz McCormick
December 8, 2019, Bloomberg
The September mayhem in the U.S. repo market suggests there’s a structural problem in this vital corner of finance and the incident wasn’t …
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