Reverse Repo Overnight Lending Chart - Update for May 27 2021
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| [u/HODLTheLineMyFriend](https://www.reddit.com/user/HODLTheLineMyFriend/) | [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/DDintoGME/comments/nmcn1e/reverse_repo_overnight_lending_chart_update_for/) |
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Latest from the NY Fed Desk, $485B in reverse repo treasury lending with 50 counterparties. The update exactly matched the curve from the last few days, with R2 increasing to 0.95 from 0.93. Showing $1T by June 10. See below for what this means and how it *might* relate to GME.
[](https://preview.redd.it/7yrdd6mt5p171.png?width=876&format=png&auto=webp&s=e61e95b77a74d17fc138011d611e229e92193a95)
Linear for my fellow stats nerds. It seems to be growing above linear and the R value is lower:
[](https://preview.redd.it/ltohauch6p171.png?width=877&format=png&auto=webp&s=09b31ca90bd08461f4a03024b7153d8593d00935)
Quick reminder: there is no $500B limit on Reverse Repo treasury lending. There is, however, an $80B limit per participant, so individual banks may start 'running out' of Treasuries to lend onward to their hedgie friends.
Useful links
- DD into Repo/Reverse Repo for those who are curious:
- Source of Fed Repo/Reverse Repo data:
- Some great DD on the true limit of the reverse repo by [u/BlindasBalls](https://www.reddit.com/u/BlindasBalls/):
- Helpful/hilarious explainer on the Reverse Repo situation:
If you want to see my charts from the last few days, they're on my post wall:
Keep on HODLin', friends! 🚀🚀🚀
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Edit:
Our friend [u/wehadmagnets](https://www.reddit.com/u/wehadmagnets/) was kind enough to get the walled FT article for me "US investors park cash at Fed as market wrestles with negative yields" from here: .
TA;DR:
- Today's Reverse Repo was the largest ever
- "Investors" (more than just banks) are seeking places to park cash, as other 'safe' places are drying up and/or having zero or negative rates
- "It is also not over yet." -- analyst at Oxford Economics
- Cash reserves ballooning due to "the Fed's purchases of $120bn of Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities each month"
- Money-market funds are getting swamped with people's cash (flight from equities?)
- Fed is trying to avoid negative rates in money market
- No one thinks it's over
- Fed may have to raise interest rates on RRP or reserve balances in member banks to keep the federal funds rates from going lower (at 0.06 on target of 0.0-0.25)
Edit 2:
One more tweak, [u/leisure_rules](https://www.reddit.com/u/leisure_rules/) noted that the $120B is $120b total, $80b in T-Bonds and $40b in MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities).
Um... could those be the Commercial MBS we've been hearing about that are toxic?