What's the Prime Rate Versus the Repo Rate?

Explore how the prime rate influences consumer loans like mortgages, versus the repo rate's role in managing the money supply ...
Metro US

Fed balance sheet below $7 trillion, repo drops to zero for first time since September

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve’s holdings of bonds and other assets shrank for a fourth straight week, sliding below $7 trillion, and use of one key emergency liquidity measure dropped to zero ...
The TRADE

JP Morgan aims to free up balance sheet with new Eurex Repo service

JP Morgan has signed up to a new balance sheet netting service launched by Eurex GC Pooling as a pilot client with the aim to reduce its capital costs. The new balance sheet netting service, a joint ...

Year-End Liquidity Turmoil On Fed's Balance Sheet. Plus $38 Billion In T-Bills Replace $15 Billion In MBS, Add $23 Billion In RMPs

The Fed added $38 billion in short-term Treasury bills, of which $15 billion replaced MBS that came off the balance sheet in ...
Nasdaq

Fed's reverse repo facility drawdown looms large in balance sheet debate

NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The eventual end of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to reduce its vast bond holdings increasingly appears tied to what happens with the central bank's "reverse repo" ...
Reuters

Fed's balance sheet drawdown enters new stage as reverse repos largely drained

NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve’s effort to shrink the size of its balance sheet is moving into a more uncertain phase as a key proxy of excess liquidity has been very nearly ...
Seeking Alpha

Fed Drains $45 Billion From Repo Market, Back To October Level. T-Bill Purchases Continue. Assets Shrink By Most Since QT

The feared chaos in the repo market over the year-end period didn't materialize as the Fed had flooded the market with cash via repo operations and purchases of T-bills. From September 2019 when the ...