There is always money in the Fed: Repurchase agreements Foreign Official 3/16 $0. Repurchase agreements Foreign Official 3/23 $60 Billion. I wonder what Foreign Official needed $60 billion so quickly?...

Sources: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230316/ https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230323/

I am willing to bet this is why the Central Bank Liquidity swaps did not jump bigly this week--they went here instead?

Also, with Primary Credit dropping by $40 billion and the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) jumping about the same, seems they are moving the lending there for the 1 year loan term vs shorter term Primary Credit?

More details on all of this here:

This is not a 'bailout'! $344.307 Billion (up +$36.244 Billion or +11.77% in a week): A review of the tools the Fed is leveraging to provide banks liquidity while we get rate hikes: Discount Window, Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), & “Other credit extensions”

EDIT: typo in headline, the dates should be 3/15 and 3/22. The reports are as of 3/16 and 3/23.

Reddit Post

Office of Financial Research (OFR) unveils new hedge fund monitor for Public use

Today, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) introduced the Hedge Fund Monitor, an interactive data visualization tool designed to make aggregated data on hedge fund activities more accessible to the public. This tool, available for public use, allows users to download data through an application programming interface (API). Key Features:

In 2023:Q4 hedge fund liabilities hit $9,131.36 billion (the highest since 2022:Q1) up $333.87 billion from $8,797.49 billion in 2023:Q3.

Today the Fed released Enhanced Financial Account data, which provided various updated insights. For this post I am reviewing the updated hedge fund data for 2023:Q4. In 2023:Q4 hedge fund liabilities hit $9,131.36 billion (the highest since 2022:Q1) up $333.87 billion from $8,797.

Banks unrealized losses on held-to-maturity securities totaled $309.6 billion in the 2nd quarter, while unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities totaled $248.9 billion.

Source: https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/qbp/2023jun/qbp.pdf Post with more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/16ciko6/unrealized_losses_on_securities_totaled_5584/ TLDRS: * Unrealized losses on securities totaled $558.4 billion in the 2nd quarter, up $42.9 billion (8.3%) from the