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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 109.23+3.7%Nov 28 4:00 PM EST

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To: Alex who wrote (45550)12/4/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (2) of 116779
 
Commentary: Fed Turns Up the Liquidity

<< In advance of any possible Y2K-related cash and liquidity threats, Alan Greenspan & Co. are exercising their central bank prerogative to provide the nation with an elastic currency.

Since September the Fed has quietly negotiated a series of repurchase transactions designed to inject a massive volume of bank reserve liquidity into the U.S. financial system. Call it a cash insurance policy to underwrite potential Y2K financial emergencies.

At last count the Fed has injected roughly $46 billion of cash through so-called "tri-party repurchase agreements" arranged with third-party custodial banks. This is over and beyond the Fed's normal repurchase program for their own System Account or for customer purposes. >>

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