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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