Thursday, October 24, 2019

Federal Reserve Repo Operations is Quantitative Easing

They are not all overnight loans. Looking at the Federal Reserves website there is numerous longer repo loans “term repos”

apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/tomo-results-display?SHOWMORE=TRUE&startDate=01/01/2000&enddate=01/01/2000


In fact, looking at the last 25 Repo operations 25% has been longer than 1 day (not counting the Friday ones that are not paid back until Monday).
October 10 – 2 weeks (42.6 Billion), October 11 – 6 days (21.150 Billion), October 15 – 2 weeks (20.1 Billion), October 17 – 15 days (30.650 Billion), October 22 – 2 weeks (35 Billion)
Less than 2 weeks the Federal reserve has injected more than 100 Billion (not counting the overnight repos) and I didn’t go back further to add more. In addition, they released a statement today that they are increasing the “term repos” (next one tomorrow, and then Oct 29th) to “at least $45 billion.” So this number will be increasing.

www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_191023

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