How to Use repurchase agreement in a Sentence

repurchase agreement

noun

• When the repurchase agreements come due, the central bank could choose, in effect, to extend them if needed.
  — The Economist, 4 Feb. 2020
• These trades are known as overnight repurchase agreements, or repos.
  — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• On September 17, the rate on overnight repurchase agreements, or repos, soared as high as 10%.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• In a reverse repurchase agreement, the buyer of a security agrees to sell it back at a later date.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Glitches in the market for repurchase agreements in recent months have drawn attention to swings in the amount of cash reserves that the Treasury holds at the Federal Reserve.
  — Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
• That would allow the securities to be cleared in the $1.8 trillion market for tri-party repurchase agreements.
  — Liz McCormick, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The move came after the overnight rate on Treasury repurchase agreements, which are short-term loans used by financial institutions like hedge funds and banks, surged at the start of the week amid a shortage of dollars.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• But the Fed has been raising other interest rates as well, including one with a dismal name: the reverse repurchase agreement, a.k.a. the reverse repo rate.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2022
• The New York Fed’s new rate is based on the rates in the active market for a kind of short term-loan known as a repurchase agreement, or repo, which uses Treasury securities as collateral.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• The Fed made a separate technical move to expand the limit per counterparty on what is known as an overnight reverse repurchase agreement.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
• New York Times: Some market participants have said the Fed was too slow to intervene amid the recent disruption in overnight repurchase agreements, or repos.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• The rate on overnight repurchase agreements hit 5% on Monday, according to Refinitiv data.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
• The first is the short-term financing provided by two types of vehicles: repurchase agreements, known as repos, and commercial paper.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• Of course, there are the traditional tools: repurchase agreements and reverse repos, which, respectively, drain and inject short-term liquidity into the banks.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• These could come from offsetting different kinds of trades, for example, derivatives against sale-and-repurchase agreements.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• Last September, the Fed confronted an unexpected surge in short-term rates that many tied to a tax payment date and Treasury debt auction settlement that limited big banks’ ability to lend in what is called the repurchase agreement, or repo, market.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
• As trading resumed Monday, the People’s Bank of China injected $173 billion into the money markets through reverse repurchase agreements.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2020
• Take-up at the System's overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility averaged somewhat less than in the previous period.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The Federal Reserve has already bailed out huge asset managers and other shadow banks by backstopping money-market funds, repurchase agreements, and other corporate financing tools.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
• On Wednesday, the bank also announced an extension of its temporary US dollar liquidity swap lines and the repurchase agreement facility for foreign central banks and international monetary authorities until March next year.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 29 July 2020

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024