The U.S. repo market has come under the spotlight in the past couple of days as surging short-term interest rates are causing some stress for overnight funding on Wall Street, reminiscent of the 2019 ...

It's been three years since the turmoil in the market for repurchase agreements froze the funding universe and forced a Federal Reserve intervention. Yet risks still linger as another test approaches.

The New York Federal Reserve is well into its second week of offering market repurchase agreements. Known as repos, the operations are designed to soothe money markets and bring interest rates within ...

The Federal Reserve may have succeeded in thwarting major year-end turmoil in funding markets, but 2020 is likely to bring a whole new set of concerns. The U.S. central bank has been injecting ...

Back in September I passed along the news that there had been a peculiar spike in the overnight repo rate, the interest rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans of cash. On September 16, ...

The repo market madness lives on for a ninth day. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced Wednesday that it would increase the size of its next overnight system repurchase agreement operation ...

Spikes in a key short-term interest rate are raising eyebrows in the arcane but vital overnight funding market, drawing unsettling comparisons with turmoil that rocked the space more than four years ...

The Federal Reserve will inject as much as $150 billion into the overnight repurchase agreement market on Tuesday in its final operation for 2019. in a bid to offset a scramble for funds over the ...

The New York Fed announced it is increasing its temporary overnight repo operations to $120 billion a day from the current $75 billion. In addition to the repo increase, term repo operations are ...

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