Concerns still roil the money markets after a quiet new year

Calm in the money markets over the new year will not silence growing calls for the Federal Reserve to provide a standing repo facility.

It has been quiet out there in the US dollar money markets; maybe too quiet.

On Wednesday, Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, shared some thoughts at a New York conference on monetary policy normalization.

He looked back to the dramatic rise in secured overnight funding rates in September and to the steps the Fed had taken to ensure it had not been repeated, with a particular focus on the year-end just passed.

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