Emergency Bank Bailout Facility Usage Remains At Record Highs; Fed ‘QT’ Accelerates

After an unexpected outflow last week, US money market funds saw inflows this week – albeit a minor $4.22 billion – with the total assets now having hovered around record highs for 7 weeks…

Source: Bloomberg

Retail funds saw their 13th straight week of inflows (+$7.2bn) while institutional funds saw a $3bn outflow…

Source: Bloomberg

Money-market fund assets (rising) and bank deposits (also rising) continue to diverge (as cash piles into NVDA calls?)…

Source: Bloomberg

The Fed’s balance sheet continued to shrink below pre-SVB levels, falling $22.4 billion last week to its smallest since Aug 2021…

Source: Bloomberg

QT reaccelerated last week with The Fed selling $21.4 billion in securities…

Source: Bloomberg

Usage of The Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program facility rose once again last week (up $622mm), hovering around the record high level of $103 billion…

Source: Bloomberg

The breakdown from The Fed’s H.4.1 table…

• QT – change in notes, bonds, TIPS: down $14BN to $4.347TN

• Discount window: unch at $2.6BN

• BTFP: up $0.6BN to new all-time high $192.9BN

• Other credit extensions (FDIC loans): up $7.2BN to $159.6BN

Finally, we note that the US equity market capitalization has completely decoupled from the declining trend in bank reserves at The Fed…

Source: Bloomberg

Which is more likely to catch down (or up) to which?