(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Repo operations at the Fed on the last day of 2025 signal growing stress in the financial system, similar to the setup we saw in 2019.
Banks and other financial institutions borrowed $74.6 billion from the New York Fed’s Standing Overnight Repurchase (repo) Facility on the final day of 2025. The last time we saw this kind of a spike in repo operations was in the months before the COVID-19 pandemic, as the stock market was tanking and the economy was going into spasms after the central bank began trying to “normalize” interest rates in the wake of the Great Recession.
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