Fed’s Fourth Bill POMO Is Most Oversubscribed Yet Amid Liquidity Scramble

- Fed’s Fourth Bill POMO Is Most Oversubscribed Yet Amid Liquidity Scramble
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
One day after the Fed unexpectedly saw a surge in demand for its term-repo operation, which was oversubscribed for the first time since the mid-September repo crisis erupted, the liquidity shortage in the funding market appears to be getting worse by the day, and in today’s just concluded 4th consecutive T-Bill POMO, which saw the Fed monetize another batch of Bills, Dealers submitted $44.2BN in bids for the maximum $7.5BN in Fed “Reserve Management” (note: not QE) purchases.
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This means that today’s operation was 5.9x oversubscribed, the most of any operation since the launch of “Not QE4”, and clearly an increase from the first three POMOs, when operations were 4.3x, 4.8x and 5.5x oversubscribed.
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