Sunday , November 24 2024
Home / Mike Norman Economics / Fed UST Purchases reduced to $15B per day next week

Fed UST Purchases reduced to $15B per day next week

Summary:
Announcement from Fed here yesterday: They have been reducing the amount of these daily purchases from B per day back in March when they were crashing the whole thing (before Treasury increased their rate of UST issuance)...  then down to B/day... then /day .... and last week's B/day... and now next week B/day...Last week the Treasury was doing "pop up" issues of Cash Management Bills (CMBs) in equal amount per day that was the Fed's policy of  the B/day: We can watch what Treasury does next week with these CMB issues if they adjust the daily amount down to match the Fed's B/day then we can perhaps assume Treasury is NOW operating with purpose to counteract the Fed policy $ via CMBs in order to prevent another catastrophic collapse in Depository leverage

Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Matias Vernengo writes Elon Musk (& Vivek Ramaswamy) on hardship, because he knows so much about it

Lars Pålsson Syll writes Klas Eklunds ‘Vår ekonomi’ — lärobok med stora brister

New Economics Foundation writes We need more than a tax on the super rich to deliver climate and economic justice

Robert Vienneau writes Profits Not Explained By Merit, Increased Risk, Increased Ability To Compete, Etc.


Announcement from Fed here yesterday:

Fed UST Purchases reduced to $15B per day next week

They have been reducing the amount of these daily purchases from $75B per day back in March when they were crashing the whole thing (before Treasury increased their rate of UST issuance)...  then down to $60B/day... then $50/day .... and last week's $30B/day... and now next week $15B/day...

Last week the Treasury was doing "pop up" issues of Cash Management Bills (CMBs) in equal amount per day that was the Fed's policy of  the $30B/day:

Fed UST Purchases reduced to $15B per day next week

We can watch what Treasury does next week with these CMB issues if they adjust the daily amount down to match the Fed's $15B/day then we can perhaps assume Treasury is NOW operating with purpose to counteract the Fed policy $4$ via CMBs in order to prevent another catastrophic collapse in Depository leverage ratios...

The other thing to observe is what will happen to bond prices as the Fed purchases becomes less dominant as a % of what Treasury is net issuing every day...  will they go UP?

Lots to observe next week...

Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *