Tag Archives: Markets

June 5, 2023
Markets

What’s Next for Bill Yields?
 |  Featured, Newsclips

Today alone, the U.S. Treasury will issue over $170 billion of bills. This is the beginning of a total wave of issuance over the next few months expected to top one trillion dollars. What it means depends on how much of the funds for these new issues come from the Fed's Reverse Repo Facility (RRP). Predicting moves in the RRP is difficult. So, over the next few days, we will watch the daily take from the RRP.... Read More

June 2, 2023
Markets

Stablecoins Turn the Tables
 |  Charts of the Week

Before May 2022, regulators worried that stablecoins posed a systemic risk to traditional financial markets, like Treasury bills. What if everyone lost confidence in stablecoins and moved at once to get out, causing their reserves to dump hundreds of billions of Treasury bills all at once. Now, traditional markets and their regulators, and the specter of defaulting Treasury bills (off the table until early 2025), pose a risk to stablecoins! This is leading to the stablecoin of choice being offshore, opaque, and not involved in Treasury bills ... USDT and not the regulated and transparent options of USDC. How things have changed!... Read More

June 1, 2023
Markets

Is Another Liquidity Drain Coming?
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Now that a debt deal is in place, the Treasury is expected to issue up to $1 trillion in new securities over the next few months. If investors purchase these securities, it will create a liquidity drain. History shows such drains cause financial market turbulence. If these Treasuries are purchased using funds in the Fed's reverse repo facility, the liquidity drain will be greatly muted.... Read More

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