Repurchase
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Financial firms sell assets, like Treasury bonds or real-estate securities, for cash, and promise to buy those assets back (i.e., to
repurchase
them or, for short, to do a “repo”), typically the following day.
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It did so by using
repurchase
agrements to buy for its own account the majority of trade acceptances issued in New York.
Instead, the PBOC is employing unconventional regulatory tools – such as short-term liquidity operations, standing lending facilities, and reverse
repurchase
agreements – to boost the money supply, driving the
repurchase
rate to a ten-year low.
As long as the marginal piece of German debt is used as collateral for a short-term loan or as the centerpiece of a
repurchase
agreement to gain liquidity, its value is much more likely to be determined by the terms on which the ECB accepts it as collateral than by its fundamentals.
And, if financial innovations like derivatives and short-term
repurchase
agreements have made markets more volatile and fragile, a Tobin tax could help to stabilize and strengthen them.
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