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Cathie Wood Points To 'Serious Liquidity Issues' As Overnight Borrowing Rate Spreads Widen On Spiking Treasury Yields: 'This Crisis Is Calling Out For Some Kind Of Mar-a-Lago Accord'
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 3:35am | 1109Following a jump in the U.S. Treasury yields, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spreads have widened, signaling a “serious liquidity” issue, according to Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood. Experts believe that only the government and the Federal Reserve’s intervention...
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'Bond King' Bill Gross Nets Millions On Treasury Market Rebound
Friday, December 1, 2023 - 3:48pm | 524“Bond King” Bill Gross may have netted millions of dollars backing the November rally in the U.S. Treasury market. Gross earned his “bond king” moniker while at Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO), a company he co-founded and where he managed the $270 billion Total Return...
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Q&A With ARRC's Tom Wipf: The Shift To Term SOFR
Monday, September 20, 2021 - 11:15am | 1356CME Group’s Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Term Rates have seen extensive client interest since the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) endorsed them on July 29, with the move marking the last step in the ARRC’s Paced Transition Plan from LIBOR. SOFR Futures activity...
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A Big Moment Arrives For SOFR
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 3:13pm | 737By Evan Peterson When the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) was selected as the new overnight repo rate in 2017, the market’s focus immediately turned to one thing: transition. How would participants in a market that averages around $1 trillion daily in transactions move to a new...
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Banks Prepare For 'Big Bang' Switch From LIBOR
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 7:29am | 398The debt markets and derivates segments are gearing up for an enormous change called the “Big Bang,” i.e. switching over from the old interest rate benchmark -- the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to the new Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), reports Bloomberg. The new...