STIR: Repo Reference Rates

Apr-28 12:16
  • Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR): 4.81%, $1.337T
  • Broad General Collateral Rate (BGCR): 4.78%, $545B
  • Tri-Party General Collateral Rate (TGCR): 4.78%, $538B
  • (rate, volume levels reflect prior session)

Historical bullets

US TSYS: What to Watch: Fed Speak, Pending Home Sales, Tsy Auctions

Mar-29 12:15
  • Treasury futures are currently trading mildly higher, stocks making modest gains (SPX Eminis +32.0) as concerns over regional banks continues to gradually subside.
  • Front month Treasury futures are near the middle of a comparatively narrow overnight range compared to levels over the last couple weeks, generally calm ahead light data today with Pending Home Sales MoM (-3.0% est vs 8.1%prior) at 1000ET.
  • Fed-Speak: NY Fed Supervision head Dianne Dobbeck will answer questions at a Bankers Assn event at 0805ET while Vice Chairman continues to make the rounds with remarks community reinvestment act at 0830ET and again at 1000ET at a House Financial Services Panel testimony.
  • Unconfirmed, some wires report Fed Chairman Powell will attend a GOP lunch today, citing a GOP, to discuss the debt limit, budget and banking issues.
  • US Treasury auctions: $22B 2Y Note FRN (91282CGF2) and $36B 17W Bill auctions at 1130ET; $35B 7Y Note auction (91282CGS4) at 1300ET.

STIR: Repo Reference Rates

Mar-29 12:04
  • Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR): 4.84%, $1.345T
  • Broad General Collateral Rate (BGCR): 4.80%, $515B
  • Tri-Party General Collateral Rate (TGCR): 4.80%, $504B
  • (rate, volume levels reflect prior session)

RATINGS: Fitch Write Sovereign Defaults are at Record High

Mar-29 11:45

Full piece here: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/s...

  • There have been 14 separate default events since 2020, across nine different sovereigns, a marked increase compared with 19 defaults across 13 different countries between 2000 and 2019, says Fitch Ratings in a new report.
  • A record five Fitch-rated sovereigns are in default: Belarus, Lebanon, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia