Against shortterm Municipal Bonds. Banks buy them from money market funds and then can get loans aga against them at the Federal Reserve, to address strain in another market, 3. 8 trillion market for state and local government bonds and airport bonds, all kinds of stuff in there. Only a part of that is eligible for financing at the fed these are assets that were held by money markets and money markets have been shedding assets in part because theyve had draw downs from corporate borrowers andenutional borrowers seeking to raise cash. Part of the seizing up of the financial system, the fed trying to come in and almost every hour appears as a new program to liquify markets. This now another historic step by the fed one of the first ones ive seen so far where they are not simply repeating what they did last time, but adding 12month and shorter highly rated Municipal Bonds to the money Market Liquidity Fund and im sorry, guys, i dont think theyre done yet. It would be surprising if they we
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Those are leading the gains today and recovering at the peak now 35 or so40 , from those record highs. David now we have an announcement that the fed is including their money Market Facility to include muni debt. Taylor this is interesting. There was a lot of talk on there. The muni market in general is much more illiquid than the rest of the market. Not surprising to see that in a week like we just had, with stress showing up even more and more. Muni traders continue to say there are some shortterm issues , but theres a lot of issues going on on the long end. I believe in previous laws, the fed could buy these up to six months. This expands it to longer dated maturities. We are getting a lot of that illiquidity on the tens and on that yield curve. Also, they had record outflows, according to as of yesterday. I would imagine this gives a little bit of some confidence to some money market facilities to also include muni debt. David what about all this talk about bailouts . There are neg
Globe would be the shutdown more restricted access to help fight the spread. Well the coronavirus pandemic is only timing its grip on europe this friday to the point where italy is calling in the army to enforce a lockdown in the region of lombardy that is where we will start as we go around the world this hour italy 1st of all with just over 3400. 00 people have died that is now more than anywhere else in the world including china infections of now surpassed 40000. 00 there as well in spain the numbers growing at an alarming rate a 1000 people have been killed and fictions are up at 20000. 00 almost in the middle east iran Just Announced another 149. 00 deaths bringing its total to more than 1400 president Hassan Rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis and in the United States the governor of the countrys most. State california has told everyone 40000000 people stay indoors stay home 1000 infections have been reported there so here is the team this hour on A