funding markets Archives - Rethinking the Dollar

Fed Injects $198 Billion Via Repos To Unfreeze Paralyzed Funding Markets

Mar 12, 2020 | Economy, Fed

shortly after the Fed injected $95BN in liquidity via two term reports (a 2-week and the first 1-month op), it also announced $103.1BN injected via the overnight operation, which means that the Fed has injected a combined $198BN in liquidity as funding markets freeze....

Funding Markets Are Freezing: Global Dollar Shortage Hits Alarming Levels

Mar 12, 2020 | Markets, Repo Market, Stock Market

The surging demand for repo liquidity – and massively expanded bailout facility size by the New York Fed – suggests there is a major global scramble for USD funding, and today’s price action in the archaic money markets exposes it has now reached...