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Here It Comes: US Suspends New Issuance Under Supplementary Financing Program, $200 Billion Liquidity Gusher Imminent
Earlier this week we predicted that the US Treasury would wind down its SFP program, unleashing $200 billion in 56-day non-rollable "Fed bonds" on the market. We predicted this would occur by mid-February. As of a few minutes ago, the Treasury has just confirmed that starting February 3, this will be precisely the case. Per the Treasury, supplementary financing account to fall to USD 5bln, with the reason being the traditional explanation: decreasing funds in account as country nears debt ceiling.
As the revised table below shows, each Thursday beginning February 3 we will now see an incremental $25 billion in extra liquidity as the maturing 56-Day CMB is not rolled.
From the US Treasury:
Treasury Issues Debt Management Guidance on the Supplementary Financing Program
1/27/2011
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets, Mary Miller, today issued the following statement on the Supplementary Financing Program:
“Beginning on February 3, 2011, the balance in the Treasury's Supplementary Financing Account will gradually decrease to $5 billion, as outstanding Supplementary Financing Program bills mature and are not rolled over. This action is being taken to preserve flexibility in the conduct of debt management policy.”?
Here is what we predicted on January 24:
Here Comes Another $25 Billion In Excess Weekly Liquidity To Ramp Up Stocks
Frequent readers may recall that 11 months ago, when the economy was
falsely rumored to be doing better, and the Fed was expected to take
baby steps in withdrawing liquidity (only to end up having to inject
another $900 billion shortly... and probably much more soon), one of the
key mechanisms used was the Treasury's Supplementary Financing Program,
whereby the Treasury would issue 56-Day Cash Management Bills each week
with a $200 billion ceiling. In addition to funding the Treasury with a
$200 billion debt ceiling buffer, the program was supposed to extract a
fifth of a trillion in liquidity which would be locked into the rolling
of each 56 day bill (each one amounting to $25 billion) up to a total
of $200 billion, as disclosed each day in the Treasury's DTS SFP Table 1 open
cash balance. Well, not even 11 full months later, it is now time to
unwind the program. The immediate catalyst for the unwind of the SFP is
that the Treasury will most certainly breach the debt ceiling by the end
of March unless it gets the benefit of the $200 billion buffer, which
counts toward the total debt issued by the UST. However, what
that also means is that the US stock market is about to become awash
with another $25 billion in suddenly free cash every single week, until
the entire $200 billion SFP buffer is depleted. In other words,
take the liquidity impact of POMO, which is roughly $25-30 billion a
week, and double it! We are confident the US Treasury will announce that
beginning with the week of February 14, it will no longer roll maturing
56-Day Cash Management Bills, which means that for the ensuing 8 weeks,
one on every single Thursday, there will be a total of $200 billion in
incremental liquidity flooding the market, and probably sending stocks,
commodities, and everything else that is not nailed down into the
stratosphere all over again.
Below is a table laying out our
estimated weekly liquidity boost. We believe the starting date for the
SFP winddown will be the week of February 14, although we could be off
by one week in either direction. (Zero Hedge update: February 3 seem just about right).
This
makes sense, especially when considering of our expectation that the
Fed will force the market to do a repeat performance of 2010, whereby it
goes parabolic through mid-April and then it is smashed in another
flash crash like event due to some exogenous variable, opening up the
path for further Quantitative Easing. That said, it is likely that the
PDs and the Fed's OMO will now orchestrate the perfect market boil up
over the next 2 months as more than ample liquidity chases stocks at
increasingly ridiculous multiples until the point where everything goes
bidless just like on May 6.
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Flash crashes??? I thought we fixed such market manipulations?
Frankly I never want to see one again.
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Not my cup of tea mate.
Aggression is not libertarian.
You wouldn't know that from the smell around here.
The guy was into wealth redistribution, communism and believed the govt is using mind control. you are way off.
weird, that's exactly what the government is into (definitely not Libertarian :/)
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And why stereotype? Fox is not full of loonies? Msnbc heads are the most out of date people I know. Half of liberals are faux hippies who drive in cars for fun, but still support global climate changing warming and cooling. The other half think Averal Harriman is still alive. Sarah Palin is not fit to be el President (or la I guess?). She is not smart enough. Sorry Sarah, for your consolation you can have your own reality TV show forever. Maybe we could get Jessica Simpson to guest star.
Alex Jones is far from perfect. Yesterday he said bicyclist treat car drivers like bastards. Well it goes both ways, and I have witnessed cars hit bikes and who got hurt? See, even he furthers the dialectic, and he is one of the few that knows about it. So if you are going to get in the game, you gotta have your facts right, and you can't build strawmen. Loughner was a liberal, and he smoked salvia EVERYDAY. He was higher than Hunter S and needed to be in a mental hospital.
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Hegelian dialectic, Cognitive dissonance. It's all a mind fuck. Tuff to break out of the hypnosis.
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That's why you may not want to rate it up or down. You're conflicted.
Art is the release valve.
Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. ~Ernst Levy
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My gut feeling is that stocks will bubble up until around April, a bit like last year. What you say seems to support that. Interesting.
With all the bad news...they have to mix a little nitro in to keep Wall Street going...main street already crashed.
green open - I think so
Is this an avalanche of bankster paper, or is it more like a tsunami of debt? I suppose it will all burn anyways.
Im short...hope 1282 tested today or tomorrow
your a brave man hugo. i'm short today and right now getting my butt kicked.
If you see this, congrats. [insert dancingbanana.jpg here]
damage control
that means surely the EMs will go higher from the pesent levels....at least till a few weeks
In other words, take the liquidity impact of POMO, which is roughly $25-30 billion a week, and double it! We are confident the US Treasury will announce that beginning with the week of February 14
Happy Valentines day sweetie. I have a big red heart on for you!
HMMMM, TD....why won't this be used
for the perfecta? Ramping treasuries?
Just in time to help prop up the market after the Fannie and Freddie report is released.
How many companies can they buy each week for 25 billion?
NATIONALISATION BABY!!!!
UNCLE SAM & Crooks INCORPERATED!!
If your going out, might as well go out with a bang.
Very theoretical but:
The push and pull of this is getting very interesting: issues like world protests possibly spreading to Europe, maybe problems at the Suez canal (from an earlier ZH story) and the historically "safe" dollar saying FU to the world because we need Dow 50,000.
May you live in interesting times indeed.
Interesting in Davos.
J Dimon appeared on a panel "Criminals without Borders" and objected to people saying unkind things about bankers.
Someone took his talk to heart as a bomb went off after that.
The press were issued with a copy of the menu for the Delegates dinner in the Grand Salon but according to reports all 16 pages of menu offerings were redacted. One official reported that they did not wish to "add fuel to the famine" by letting the starving third world know about the 747 cargo fleet busy replenishing the Swiss caviar supply.
Is there something kind that can be said about banksters? I get it. These poor sensitive souls simply wanted to rape the taxpayer and pillage the Treasury, destroy housing and nations, and play multi-trillion dollar derivatives games that are yet to end, and people get all upset. How dare they. Have a heart people. Banksters are your best friend and they are a benevolent sort with hearts of gold (and silver), who are looking out for your best interests. Trust us. Those taxpayer funded multi-million dollar bonuses were earned by gosh!
Keep talking like that and they will foreclose on your dwelling and sell it out from under you. Even if it is a rental.
Hey you gotta get something for your $100k ticket.
Wait a minute, if the Fed is the biggest owner of US debt wouldn't they own a lot of these bills that are NOT being reissued. Wouldn't that take liquidity out of the market?
The Fed is the biggest owner - but only with a small plurality. They don't own anything close to a majority of the debt.
Last gasp Treasury liquidity pump. The Fed continues the pump until mutually assured destruction is assured via commodity inflation, dollar devaluation, and risk asset declines when measured against any currency.
Tyler, you hit the nail exactly on its head here. Being that precious metals are so currently unloved, I expect them to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the T bill roll off. Also, despite the Euro being so hated - hey its Gartman's short of the year from 1.31 (well did you actually think he would be right?) - the dollar looks to breaking down and this may push it over the edge.
Charles, the EUR doesn't have much going for it either. I wouldn't make any long term trades either way on EUR/USD. Just scalp. Volatility is your friend!
Is there 200B SFP part of the 14.3 debt limit? If so they may just need to replace that with new debt, correct? I am confused
Okay, Faber, reflation trade back on. Bananas!
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So do the PDs own these 56-day notes now, and the Fed is going to return principal?
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FUNemployment and durable goods numbers, even from The Ministry of Truth, obviously don't matter a whit to Mr. Market.
But this? Well, it's a big f'ing deal.
...and we are into the green folks as equities drool on themselves with the coming heroine/cash injection.
the Nasdaq, and Russell especially, had to have one more good day in order to re-test. though to be fair i don't think the Russell makes it back to re-test. notice the Dow has been a laggard in the last couple sessions.
a correction depends entirely on the US dollar finding a bid.
Why is gold falling .... I thought the bottom was called .... ?
Why is the dollar falling? I thought that we were pretending it is real?
It have something to do with gravitation. Paper falls much slower, in normal atmosphere.
But seriously: before COMEX defaults, there will be huge insider selling of paper gold.
Because silver is in backwardation, it's legitimate to set a question: is it happening now?
OK, why?
So when they agree to raise the debt ceiling this $20B per week in liquidity will be withdrawn once again.
These comments suggest that the money will simply move into the short end of the curve, and not into stocks or commodities. We will probably know on Thurs Feb 3rd when we see the action in yields on the short end of the curve.
good point
IYR moving on up?
So what is the Play?
If you are playing 3x BEAR/BULL ETFs when would you buy/sell on these thursdays with $25B excess liquidity? Is there better plays? Optoions? Let's get some trading theories and make some damn money off this crime.
if you think thse guys don't do technical analysis tyou have got to be kidding the fed is all about tech analysis the top and bottom trend lines in the traingale just about cross on 2/4/11 on my chart it is either 2/7 or 2/8. at about 1312 on the s and p. since I believe the charts always tell what is happening the rule 48 todays as because ae are at top of speed line, they did this last week as well, (long term speed lines) this is the best way to chart s and P action, because the controlling algo uses this (for sure)
If I was a hacker, I would surely hack the computers running the Algo's, or fuck with the power to the building's each time there is an algo sell raid scheduled. Hmm mini EMP set off near the main buildings of the Fed, JPM, Goldman sounds fun too.
But i'm not a hacker or an EMP specialist so to the spooks monitoring this board, look the other way>>>>.
When they telegraph an end to POMO as they are doing now, there is no way the market will wait until early April to start dropping, as the market is always forward looking. Besides, the Feds need a massive deflationary event well before then in order to justify QE3.
So HUGE rally coming in February and March. Plus Fed noted yesterday that no correction until end of June. What should we do in this situation?
I concur with DJIA36000. What to do? Conflicting signals via the forward looking menatlity, technicals, unwinding, debt ceiling, emenant retracement to justify another nut.... How do we rip some vinyl from this?
It's a criminal racket. Any of the markets, commodities, equities, etc. could be crashed at any time.
Good luck to any honest person with any rational 'investment thesis' competing with the insiders in this fraudulent, criminally fixed, sick game.
Bernanke is Satan.
The
The SFP program was never anything more than a tube of pig lipstick, as its real purpose was to help propagandize the pretext that everything was turning around, and such measures would be necessary. It was also supposed to answer that small group of critics who had voiced concern that the Fed could not its liquidity, and could withdraw it via programs such as these rather easily, and therefore help support the illusion that all was well, and even better support the illusion that the Fed even gave a shit about its so-called dissenters. So even if it is being pulled now, it can simply be support for the new program of (a) doing all it can to raise alarm about the failure of CONgress to raise the debt ceiling (as if that is in doubt, but in a pluto-kleptocracy, it is useful to confuse the prey by a constant display of bright, shiny objects and, even worse, by letting them think they have rights too) and (b) the DOW is now 12K and that proves we are on the road to recovery. If the SFP elimination happens to provide additional liquidity for the rampjob, so much the better, right? It's win-win, once again.
Welcome to the Rocky and Bullwinkle Blog Comment Theatre
Cast
Rocky - (not in scene, represents the market)
Bullwinkle - played by Ben Bernanke
Top Hat - played by Quantitative Easing
Lion - played by Unintended Consequences
Rabbit - (not in scene, represents strong economy, with low unemployment)
Scene
Bullwinkle, dressed as a magician and standing on a stage next to a small pedestal table upon which is placed a top hat brim side up, is about to reach into the top hat.
Bullwinkle: (looking confident, reaches into the top hat) Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat.
Lion: (its head pulled out of top hat, menacingly baring its fangs) GRRRRrrrrrrrrrr.
Bullwinkle: (looking flustered) Oops, Wrong hat.
The End
LOL. Thanks
So in effect, when the Fed gets done, if ever, the PD's will own everything outright. Please, someone tell me I'm wrong...
Tyler, you are a machine. The rate at which you crank out analyses of these programs that are quite complex to people like me to don't follow this stuff is stunning. This is why I visit your site multiple times every day.
I had to read this slowly several times to fully comprehend what it means, but now that I understand it... Holy crap.
Interesting article. Here's the money quote: "...the US stock market is about to become awash with another $25 billion in suddenly free cash, every single week until the entire $200 billion SFP buffer is depleted. In other words, take the liquidity impact of POMO, which is roughly $25-30 billion a week, and double it!" What TD doesn't mention is that this is also free money for Blanche Masters to smash PM prices further. It could be that the next leg down for gold and silver will begin in about a week and last a couple of months. If this does happen, can we assume Blanche and Doug Kass are on first-name terms?That is illogical. POMO chased PM prices much, much higher in 2010 and corresponded with huge net short reductions. There are still lots of shorts to cover and effectively doubling POMO leads to the only logical conclusion: Higher PM prices.
again, the $200 raised for SFP was loaned to the FED who used the money in 2010 to buy Treasuries/QE 2.
Will the FED pay back the $200 billion as the Treasury winds down SFP? Where will they draw/withdraw the money?
Is one entities liquidity injection another's liquidity withdrawal?