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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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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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Now Repo Distortions Emerge in Europe’s $9 Trillion Market
By Anchalee Worrachate
December 8, 2019, Bloomberg
The European repo market may have escaped the kind of turmoil that engulfed the U.S. financial system this year, but that doesn’t mean …
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The repo market disruption: What happened, why, and should something be done about it?
The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings will seek to answer questions on what happened in the repo markets in September and why — and what, if …
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Repo Market’s Liquidity Woes
In normal times, not even Wall Street pays much attention to market plumbing, but flare ups in the repo market could create tremors across the global banking system. December may …
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The repo market is ‘broken’ and Fed injections are not a lasting solution, market pros warn
By Joy Wiltermuth
December 4, 2019, MarketWatch
The Federal Reserve’s ongoing efforts to shore up the short-term “repo” lending markets have begun to rattle some market experts.
The New York …
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