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How Trump’s Team Amassed a $1 Trillion War Chest for Biden to Deploy
By Victoria Guida
March 14, 2021, Politico
Republicans are bashing the new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package for further ballooning the federal debt, but it’s the Trump administration that greased …
Fear That Fed’s Main Rate Will Drop Too Low Is Starting to Abate
By Alex Harris
March 9, 2021, Bloomberg
The rate that the Federal Reserve targets to control monetary policy is defying the skeptics by holding firmly above zero, prompting a rethink …
Derby’s Take: After Bond Market Tumult, Some See Need for Stronger Fed Response
By Michael Derby
March 2, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
Some economists and market participants believe the Federal Reserve needs to speak more directly to a bond market that has …
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 …
How Do You Solve a Problem Like US Treasuries?
By Mark Baker
January 28, 2021, Euromoney
In normal times the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publishes a monthly breakdown of its purchases of US Treasury securities, showing the …
Near-Disaster in U.S. Treasuries Lights a Fresh Fire for Reform
By Liz McCormick and Rich Miller
December 18, 2020, Bloomberg
The U.S. Treasury market’s brush with disaster in March has reawakened calls to overhaul the underpinnings of the almost-$21 trillion …
Treasury Slashes Quarterly Borrowing Estimate to $617 Billion
By Liz McCormick
November 2, 2020, Bloomberg
The U.S. Treasury roughly halved its borrowing estimate for the final three months of the year, to $617 billion, after the fiscal stimulus …
Fed’s Latest Treasury Purchases Signal Liquidity Is Improving
By Elizabeth Stanton
April 15, 2020, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve’s daily purchases of Treasury securities raised some eyebrows on Wednesday because in two of the four operations, bonds that were …
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With Rates on Hold, Fed Faces Decisions on Its Balance Sheet
By Nick Timiraos
January 28, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
With Federal Reserve officials likely to hold interest rates steady in coming months, the focus of their meeting this week …
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Federal Reserve to keep repo interventions at elevated levels
By Colby Smith
January 14, 2020, Financial Times
The Federal Reserve signaled that it plans to maintain its interventions in short-term funding markets at an elevated level, even after a …
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion