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Overview: Wed, July 22

Daily Agenda

Time Indicator/Event Comment
07:00MBA mortgage prch. indexMild declines the last two weeks
09:20Fed bill purchase4- to 12-month maturities
11:00Treasury buyback announcement (liq support)Nominal coupons 10Y to 30Y
11:3017-wk bill auction$72 billion offering
13:0020-yr bond (r) auction$13 billion offering
14:00Treasury buyback (liq support)TIPS 1Y to 10Y
15:00Treasury investor class auction dataMid-July data

Federal Reserve and the Overnight Market

Treasury Finance

  • Treasury Highlights for Wednesday, July 22, 2026

    9:20 am: Fed bill purchase in the 4- to 12-month sector
    11:00 am: Treasury buyback announcement
    11:30 am: 17-week bill auction
    1:00 pm: 20-year bond (r) auction
    2:00 pm: Treasury buyback operation

US Economy

This Week's MMO

  • MMO for July 20, 2026

    The Treasury’s quarterly dealer discussion agenda, which was released on Friday, revisited the question of whether it should implement a short-term investment program for cash in the TGA that exceeds its daily minimum cash balance target.  The intramonthly peaks and valleys of its prudential cash balance framework mean that the Treasury can go for extended periods over the course of each month with more cash in the TGA than strictly required.  The financial benefits of redeploying that cash into the repo market are limited in the current market environment, but might become more substantial in the (we think unlikely) event that the moved to a scarce reserves framework.  This week’s newsletter looks at the additional background questions the Treasury is asking about the proposal this quarter.

Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee

Ben Bernanke

Wed, April 14, 2010

The fee on financial institutions, it is basically a tax and as such it's up to the Congress to decide whether it wants to raise revenue through taxing large financial institutions. I think the only observation I would make there is that it should be structured -- if you do do it, it should be structured in a way that doesn't create unnecessary problems. So for example, one of the original ideas was to tax based on leverage. But some further investigation discussions sort of reveal that that would cause very severe problems in the repo market, that would essentially disrupt some very important markets because it would create essentially a tax on certain kinds of transactions.

      So there are other ways to create the tax base if that's the way you want to go. So my only advice there is if you decide -- if Congress decides that you want to raise revenue to that particular method, and you can justify it just as a general revenue measure as well as a repayment as you wish that you do it in a way that minimizes the disruptive implications for the markets.

MMO Analysis