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US Dollar Liquidity

Dollar Trade Weighted Index (TWI)

SOFR Secured Overnight Financing Rate

Versus Fed Fund Rates

The closer to the upper bound the tighter liquidity is.

Versus T-Bill (3M)

SOFR BASIS SWAPs

These contracts represent the spread between a SOFR swap of a given tenor and the risk free tresury rate of that same tenor. For example SOFR-5Y Swap Spread is the spread between USOSFR5 Curncy and CT5 Govt. They are normally negative because of the convience of using the derivative (the cash-security yield is higher) This trade is related to the so-called “basis trade”. A hedge fund typically buys a Treasury bond in the cash market and sells a corresponding Treasury futures contract. To finance the bond, the fund may enter into a SOFR swap where it pays fixed and receives floating (tied to overnight repo rates). When the basis—defined as the spread between the swap and the cash bond widens negatively, the fund incurs losses because the value of the bond it holds declines more than the benefit it gains from the swap.

Bond Liquidity

Charts US Govt Securities Liquidity Index (GVLQUSD Index). This index measures how dispersed Treasury prices are from a smoothed yield curve.

Official Description from Bloomberg:

The Index GVLQUSD is a measure of prevailing liquidity conditions in the US Treasury market. This Index displays the equally-weighted average yield error across the universe of US Treasury notes and bonds with remaining maturity 1-year or greater, based off the intra-day Bloomberg relative value curve fitter. When liquidity conditions are favorable the average yield errors are small as any dislocations from fair value are normalized within a short time frame. Under stressed liquidity conditions, dislocations from fair value implied by the curve fitter can remain persistent resulting in large average yield errors. CBBT is the pricing source for all Treasury notes and bonds used in this index calculation.

Commercial Paper Spread

3-Month Commercial Paper Minus Federal Funds Rate

Corporate Bond Spreads (IG, HY)

Fed Repo Facilities

Reverse Repo Facility (RRP)

Money market funds and other financial institutions use this facility to invest surplus cash by lending it overnight to the Fed at a fixed interest rate. The lower the use the more tight dollar liquidity is.

Repo Facility

The opposite would be for the FED to Inject Liquidty. There is currently no injection, but if the Fed was to ease, we would see part of the action here.

Cross-Currency Basis

Stress outside the United States for Dollar Funding Negative means strong demand for dollars abroad