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Overnight Rates at Next to Nothing

Investors and lenders squeezed as level drops to lowest since end of 2009.

By Liz Capo McCormick | Updated on May 11, 2011

Treasuries are in such short supply in the $4.9 trillion-a-day repurchase agreement market used by bond dealers to finance their holdings that investors are lending cash for next to nothing to obtain the securities.

The average level of overnight general collateral repo rates traded through 10 a.m. New York time with ICAP Plc, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, was 0.04 percent yesterday. The rate fell to as low as 0.01 percent on May 5 and is down from 0.22 percent on Jan. 3. Rates haven’t been this low since they fell to 0.001 percent in December 2009 as banks sought to hold Treasuries on their balance sheets as the year closed.

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