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The US Federal Reserve (FED) injected $13.5 billion into the banking system through overnight repurchase agreements as quantitative tightening (QT) ended on Monday. This marks the second-largest liquidity injection since the Covid pandemic, triggering trading actions in Bitcoin and MSTR stock.
The massive liquidity injection is one of the largest in recent years, marking the second-biggest liquidity injection since 2020 and even exceeding the Dot Com Bubble in the early 2000s, according to Barchart.
Notably, this follows another $25 billion in liquidity injection in the morning repo operation. The collateral included $12.5 billion in treasuries and $12.5 billion in mortgage-backed securities.
Why was this needed...?
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sigh, so it looks like i will have to devote some real brainpower and time to try and understand this after all
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 2h
This was also an okay explanation:
yeah, I thought it was just some scammy people baiting for clicks, but after reading a few more articles about it...something's going on. The Market Watch article I linked to in another comment has some good links.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @nitter 3h
I'm back to haunt you in your dreams, @Scoresby! 👻
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hooray! I'm zapping you just cause I like you.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3h
I think because of the SOFR-IORB Spread indicator
but I cannot reproduce this chart from FRED data which could either be a skill deficit on my end, or something else... so I'm not sure if this is it.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @SevenOfNine 3h
What is even happening?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 3h
This Market Watch article has a little analysis (although it is maybe a little too breathless):
The Fed’s overnight reverse repo facility once held about $2.5 trillion in spare cash, like a giant mattress stuffed with money nobody needed yet. That mattress is empty. The cash migrated into your money-market fund, which means you are now the mattress.
Then there’s the Standing Repo Facility. That’s the Fed’s emergency lending window. The backstop they said they’d “hardly ever use.” The facility that lets big dealers hand over Treasurys and get overnight cash at a preset rate. It’s the central bank’s credit card for when things get weird.
It’s been getting real weird.
Some days, dealers have borrowed up to $10 billion from the facility. Used to be that this was a quarterly thing. Now it’s Tuesday.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2h
Nice article (had to click it to check if they really said "things get weird", lol)
Here’s the tell: Private repo rates are printing above the Fed’s own ceiling on this facility. Which means the system is so tight that people are actually paying more to borrow in private markets than the Fed’s supposed “emergency” rate. That’s not a technical adjustment. That’s a failure of monetary control. That’s the Fed admitting it can’t actually set the price of money anymore. The market is doing it for them.
That means that the thing I posted about SOFR-IORB is actually correct, yey. lol
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