Over the past two weeks, one-month and three-month GBP/USD FX swaps have moved from –2 and –5 to +2 and +5 respectively, equating, by my reckoning, to about 35 basis points of dollar tightening in the interest rate spread. But it took a note on Tuesday from Laurence Mutkin and Elaine Lin of Morgan Stanley to put the move in some perspective.
They point out that that the ECB’s “full-allocation USD tenders provide an unlimited amount of USD to banks at an implied OIS+100bp”.
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