Fed’s Barr: I am ‘fairly attentive’ to liquidity points in Treasury market (NYSEARCA:ZROZ)

Federal Reserve Vice Chair of Supervision Michael Barr stated Wednesday that he is paying shut consideration to rising considerations about liquidity points surrounding the Treasury market, which has traditionally been considered extraordinarily secure and liquid.

“The Treasury market is experiencing larger ranges of volatility,” Barr stated in response to a query throughout an look earlier than the Committee on Monetary Companies. “That volatility results in decrease ranges of liquidity, which we’re additionally seeing in Treasury and different markets.”

In an effort to mitigate these points, Barr stated that the Fed has “put in place a “backstop facility for repo transactions” in addition to a “backstop for international official repo transactions.” he added that the Fed is at the moment monitoring numerous capital necessities, reminiscent of the improved supplementary leverage ratio, to see how they work collectively.

Of be aware, Treasury yields (US10Y) (US5Y) (US2Y) (US30Y) (US3M) have soared to the very best ranges because the 2008 Nice Monetary Disaster because the U.S. central financial institution embraces its most aggressive rate-hiking cycle because the Nineteen Eighties within the wake of stubbornly excessive inflation. Taking into consideration the inverse relationship of yields and bonds, Treasury bonds (NASDAQ:TLT) (NYSEARCA:ZROZ) have suffered one of many worst drawdowns on file.

However, Barr reassured that “the Treasury market is resilient and sturdy.”

Elsewhere, Barr identified that it is essential to have sturdy oversight of stablecoins, or digital representations of extra “secure” asset such because the U.S. greenback (DXY). He described stablecoins as “a type of personal cash,” which “can generate vital run dangers and monetary stability dangers if not strongly and appropriately regulated.”

In September, Barr mapped out his priorities to make monetary system safer and fairer.