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...He said the bank has about $90bn of off-balance sheet funds — such as cash paydowns on its securities portfolio and borrowing capacity of around $70bn — it could tap if necessary....
...Amos Hochstein, the US government’s chief energy security adviser, said the future energy market could fall into similar traps to those seen with fossil fuels....
...exchange traded funds....
...The funds, which include those from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Invesco, have attracted net inflows of nearly $4bn, according to ETF.com....
...In other words, stablecoins are unregulated* money-market funds for folks who’ve become bored with dreary concepts like government interest rates, liquidity requirements, securities, corporations, profits...
...This would make it more expensive for banks to intermediate in government bond markets, which would in turn raise costs for participants trying to arbitrage price differences....
...Lifting the insured deposit cap would require the FDIC fund to be 70 to 80 per cent bigger, a jump the industry would have to fund....
...hedge fund groups went to court to invalidate a pair of rules on short selling....
...“Ready, set, slow” says TD Securities. All that doom and gloom is not for Unlimited Funds, which sees a “stronger for longer” outlook for the US economy....
...These funds likely bought over $1tn of T-bills last year, and appear to have reduced their holdings of shorter maturity coupon securities and FRNs by about $75bn....
...Add to that the slightly optimistic assessment that the US government will be able to borrow short term permanently at below 3 per cent and the true fantastical nature of these forecasts becomes apparent...
...Griffin argues that the basis trade brings down the cost of issuing government bonds, as hedge funds buy large quantities of Treasuries to pair against their short futures positions....
...The rule “is unnecessary government interference . . ....
...This unit is an intermediary for governments, hedge funds and proprietary traders wanting to buy and sell US debt; in return, it interacts with FICC, the main US clearing house where securities are legally...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). As for Pawan Passi, his life has been upended by “two difficult years of intense government scrutiny,” as his lawyer says....
...without upsetting energy security, jobs or consumer bills....
...We’ve already seen an effect in the pricing and liquidity of short-dated Treasury bills and continue to monitor for any additional tremors. If the U.S....
...While slightly higher than the meagre returns it could earn from short-term government debt, the investments locked the cash away for more than a decade and exposed it to losses if interest rates rose quickly...
...Buying short-dated credit can deliver a yield pick-up, but doesn’t have much in the way of duration....
...A barrage of government actions — including the creation of a new emergency lending facility — are helping quell short-term liquidity worries by giving banks access to ample funding to pay out to depositors...
...Unlike debt owed by Silicon Valley start-ups, securities issued by the US government are virtually certain to be repaid in full....
...That left First Republic twisting in the wind as its share price sagged, short sellers circled and depositors fled....
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund was known for hiring “earls and girls”, while some fund managers brought shotguns to the office before heading off on weekend shooting trips....
...He said in an interview: “I’ve always told people there is nobody who can really pick the market on a short-term or an intermediate-term basis....
...“They will have a short-term crisis and introduce a short-term tax,” Freedman says. “That is not going to solve problems in the long run.”...
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