The submitted to accepted ratio came in at a low 2.6x (vs the median 4.1x) which means the Primary dealers have a lot of cash in hand and it generally ends up in the market around 11 a.m. at the end of operations.
Once again, the Fed picks up a bond that the PD's just purchased from the treasury last WEEK!!!!! This bond accounted for more then 58% of the entire POMO operation. So once again, the Primary dealers pockets are filled with cash for taking a bond from the treasury, not even holding it a week and selling it at a profit to the Fed with almost no downside risk whatsoever. Lets hope Ron Paul questions this absolutely questionable and highly immoral behavior. Unreal.
Is interest rates about to start going up?
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Yes, I know - it does not make any sense - FED is about to cut
rates...but....real world interest rates are not always what FED wants it
to be.
5 years ago
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