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Treasury Yields Face Curbs From Fistful of Money Market Dollars
By Susanne Barton and Anchalee Worrachate
March 2, 2021, Bloomberg
The flood of dollars that’s helping to drive some U.S. money-market rates below zero could well provide a boost to …

Fed’s Brainard Sets Out Reform Plan for COVID-Stressed Markets
By Craig Torres
March 1, 2021, Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard described a broad regulatory reform agenda for the coming months aimed at fixing a financial system that proved …

Federal Reserve Financial Services Systems Disrupted for Hour
By Paul Kiernan and Orla McCaffrey
February 24, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday an unspecified error disrupted all of its financial-services systems in an extraordinary …

Do Not Rule Out a Market Panic Next Month
By John Dizard
February 19, 2021, Financial Times
“Beware the Ides of March” (Julius Caesar, act one scene two)
Everybody seems to be having a hard time finding the most …
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Regulation & Market Structure: How the SEC and the Fed Will Change US Bond Markets in 2021
February 15, 2021, The Desk
Transparency and structure is coming to the US Treasury and credit markets.
The role of the Fed is changing and consequently the role of other …

Yellen Shift on Vast Treasury Cash Pile Poses Problem for Powell
By Rich Miller and Liz McCormick
February 16, 2021, Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is giving Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a bit of a headache when it comes to …

Corporates Adopt 20-Year Treasury Benchmark
By William Hoffman
February 12, 2021, IFR
Investment-grade corporate bond issuers in the US market are finally embracing a very simple idea – pricing 20-year bonds off of the corresponding …

Ending Leverage Ratio Relief Could Force US banks to Downsize
By Louie Woodall
February 9, 2021, Risk
The removal of a carve-out of US Treasuries and excess reserves from the calculation of the supplementary leverage ratio could force large US …

Mohamed El-Erian: Rising Treasury Yields Are Flashing a Warning Sign
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield remained higher than the 1.1% mark on Monday morning, after President-elect Joe Biden on Friday promised further economic stimulus that would be “in the trillions …
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