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#Market Extra: Fed’s popular repo facility sees record demand of $1.35 trillion Thursday

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#Market Extra: Fed’s popular repo facility sees record demand of $1.35 trillion Thursday

A previous version of this report said $1.35 billion. It’s trillion.

The New York Federal Reserve Bank’s popular reverse repo program set a record Thursday for overnight demand, a same day the central bank doubled the limit for individual user to $160 billion.

The program, which allows banks, money-market funds and other financial firms to park cash overnight at the Fed, while earning 5 basis points, has become increasingly popular with Wall Street firms flush with cash, who are looking for save, short-term havens to stash it.

Thursday’s operation saw a record $1.35 trillion parked in the facility from 77 counterparties. The Fed doesn’t immediately disclose the names of individual users, but provides additional historical data on a delayed basis.

Expectations have been for demand to ramp higher heading into year-end, given the typical volatility and liquidity woes that can plague financial markets, but also this year because of the unresolved debt-ceiling issue in Washington, a Treasury-bill market that’s been shrinking this year and expected wrangling in Congress over President Biden’s proposed $3.5 trillion spending bill.

Read: Fed opens overnight repo spigot as Wall Street stares down barrel of U.S. debt-ceiling fight

U.S. stocks climbed Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+1.48%
closing up 500 points, a day after the Fed said it may announce in November a plan for tapering its $120 billion in monthly Treasury
TMUBMUSD10Y,
1.434%
and mortgage-backed securities, and potentially raise benchmark policy rates at a quicker pace than initially expected.

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