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Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 9:08 am
by mathjak107
i use fzfxx as a sweep account

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:30 am
by sophie
MangoMan wrote:
Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:48 am
sophie wrote:
Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:42 am
77% repos? That's gone up since I last checked (was about 60%). Crazy.

I only wish FDLXX could be used as a sweep account. It's not that hard to keep shifting cash into it though. With the smartphone app I can do it while walking to work, or while stuck in boring meetings. I also have 3 sets of T bills on autoroll, and it looks like you can add to those positions anytime with the "buy" button. Pugchief have you tried that?
Tried T-bills/autoroll? Yes, but I prefer the liquidity of a MM fund.

I didn't know about this whole repo thing until this thread, but I have held cash in other MM funds at Fidelity, and they do automatically pull funds if necessary to cover debits that can't be paid from the sweep fund, so I will be keeping most of my cash there in FDLXX going forward.
That's what I do now, except I have the FDLXX fund in a separate brokerage account and use the cash account only for ATM withdrawals. I put all the credit card auto-debits on the brokerage after an episode this past April where Fidelity's auto-transfer software failed, and a bunch of people got stuck with late fees from their credit cards. I went with the separate brokerage because you can't set up auto transfers into a money market fund in the cash account, and its sweep pays essentially no interest.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:24 pm
by mathjak107
Nope..not concerned at all..repurchase agreements are standard fed action whether a fund takes part or not

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:55 am
by jhogue
mathjak107 wrote:
Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:24 pm
Nope..not concerned at all..repurchase agreements are standard fed action whether a fund takes part or not
I think a lot of investors would have described buying and selling in the large secondary market in collaterized mortgage obligations-- the sort held by Bear Stearns prior to 2008 -- as a standard action for all the TBTF investment banks on Wall Street.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:33 pm
by Tortoise
Exactly. All the articles I've read state that the Fed's current intervention in the repo market is not typical and hasn't happened since 2008. That seems like cause for at least a little bit of concern and scrutiny.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:35 pm
by Kbg
https://www.pragcap.com/three-things-i- ... o-madness/

Good article.

PS: if you have a brokerage that you can see futures quotes with and monitor stocks, T-bonds, currencies, gold and large industrial commodities it’s pretty easy to see if something is up. I haven’t seen anything to suggest a problem.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:29 pm
by Tortoise
I still don’t quite understand. Has the Fed been injecting billions of dollars into the repo market each day (e.g., giving it to the banks like “free money”), or has it simply been lending that money to the banks at below-market interest rates?

If the repo lending rates spiked this past week because the banks lack sufficient reserves, then doesn’t that mean the reserve requirements are doing their job, i.e., maybe the banks should dial back their lending a bit to correspond to the reserves they actually have?

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:30 pm
by Kbg
Its way complex...but the bottom line is it isn’t the liquidity being injected but the spread that matters. Wide spread basically means trust is breaking down.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:43 am
by boglerdude
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=mc6A

Looks like a lot of e-cash sitting around compared to before 08. Thats still not enough liquidity?

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:23 am
by shekels
boglerdude wrote:
Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:43 am
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=mc6A

Looks like a lot of e-cash sitting around compared to before 08. Thats still not enough liquidity?
Exactly Kbg
"Wide spread basically means trust is breaking down."


"The increased role of non-bank institutions in providing credit means that an increasing proportion of international finance comes from unregulated sources. Effectively, this means that these institutions, including money market funds, investments banks, etc., have unwittingly assumed even bigger risks in their lending practices than commercial banks. This also means that when the downturn comes, the share of non-performing and/or defaulted loans will grow higher than before."

I can hear them asking ..What's in your Wallet I mean Portfolio/Collateral?

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:37 am
by jhogue
Kbg wrote:
Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:30 pm
Its way complex...but the bottom line is it isn’t the liquidity being injected but the spread that matters. Wide spread basically means trust is breaking down.
+1

For even more detail and analysis, see "Securitized Banking and the Run on the Repo," by Gary Borton and Andrew Metrick, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper available on-line:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w15223

For me, the bottom line is that Uncle Harry's wisdom still prevails. Own each asset in the purest form possible, with the fewest pieces of paper between you and your money. Avoid the repo market. Buy Treasurys.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:57 pm
by ochotona
The Fed said they will inject liquidity until October 10-ish. So what happens after then???

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:44 pm
by Kbg
Fuhget about it, it don’t mean nuthin.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:33 am
by dualstow
I hope Pug won’t mind if I add a WSJ link. Actually, the link in the OP is from the WSJ.

Fed Adds $63.5 Billion to Financial System in Repo Transaction
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-adds-6 ... 1569846438

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:32 am
by dualstow
MangoMan wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:31 pm
dualstow wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:33 am
I hope Pug won’t mind if I add a WSJ link. Actually, the link in the OP is from the WSJ.

Fed Adds $63.5 Billion to Financial System in Repo Transaction
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-adds-6 ... 1569846438
Why would I mind?
I thought you always asked for a non-paywalled alternative. I’m probably thinking of someone else, then.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:59 am
by shekels
When is QE not QE?
The new-new-new plan.


https://wolfstreet.com/2019/10/11/10-ye ... ury-bills/

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:54 pm
by ochotona
shekels wrote:
Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:59 am
When is QE not QE?
The new-new-new plan.

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/10/11/10-ye ... ury-bills/
Through Q2 2020. I wonder if they can really stop at that point.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:39 pm
by Tortoise
Sounds like a de facto standing repo facility, which the Fed proposed earlier this year.

If so, maybe at some point they'll just "make it official" and replace their current ad hoc repo market interventions with a standing repo facility.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:22 am
by sophie
Oh of course. That would be because I just bought long bonds!

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:30 pm
by Libertarian666
sophie wrote:
Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:42 am
77% repos? That's gone up since I last checked (was about 60%). Crazy.

I only wish FDLXX could be used as a sweep account. It's not that hard to keep shifting cash into it though. With the smartphone app I can do it while walking to work, or while stuck in boring meetings. I also have 3 sets of T bills on autoroll, and it looks like you can add to those positions anytime with the "buy" button. Pugchief have you tried that?
Thanks for this info, everyone.
Most of my Fidelity assets are in two sets of T-bills with autoroll.
I have just entered an order to move most of my "cash" (about 25% of my Fidelity account) from SPAXX to FDLXX, which should be executed on Monday.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:43 am
by Kriegsspiel
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-f ... 2019-10-25

This chart has vertical lines on it.

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Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 2:08 pm
by Smith1776
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:43 am


This chart has vertical lines on it.
lmao.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:56 am
by shekels
Repo Market Simplified, or maybe not. :-\
Printing is always an option until it is not.
Jeff Snider has his opinion explained.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5AR-KBVgJ0&t

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:38 pm
by welderwannabe
Im not sure there are cracks emerging in money markets. There are many theories on why this is happening. One is the concern about counterparty risk which really came to the forefront with the MBS crisis.

My theory is that is is more likely because the Fed started paying interest on reserves, both required and excess. The fed pays 1.6% right now on any reserves held with it. If a bank can just deposit with the fed and earn a guaranteed 1.6%, why bother with the repo market and take whatever limited repo risk?

They started paying interest on reserves to make it more palatable for banks to have higher reserves....making them stronger. However, this is a form of money tightening IMHO.

Therefore the Fed is stepping in.

Its definitely broken, but im not sure I would read in that there is a lot of risk in money markets now.

Re: Cracks emerging in money markets?

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:59 pm
by Smith1776
I keep reading this thread title as something like "emerging markets money market funds".

And i'm like... why the hell would anyone buy something like that??? :D