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Journal Article
The transition to electronic communications networks in the secondary treasury market
This article reviews the history of the recent shift to electronic trading in equity, foreign exchange, and fixed-income markets. The authors analyze a new data set: the eSpeed electronic Treasury network. They contrast the market microstructure of the eSpeed trading platform with the traditional voice-assisted networks that report through GovPX. The electronic market (eSpeed) has greater volume, smaller spreads, and a lower estimated trade impact than the voice market (GovPX). ; Appeared earlier as Working Paper 2006-012
Discussion Paper
Price Impact of Trades and Orders in the U.S. Treasury Securities Market
It’s long been known that asset prices respond not only to public information, such as macroeconomic announcements, but also to private information revealed through trading. More recently, with the growth of high-frequency trading, academics have argued that limit orders—orders to buy or sell a security at a specific price or better—also contain information. In this post, we examine the information content of trades and limit orders in the U.S. Treasury securities market, following this paper, recently published in the Journal of Financial Markets and earlier as a New York Fed staff ...
Journal Article
The Stock Market's Wild Ride
Quick action by the Fed to smooth the functioning of financial markets appears to have encouraged investors and stopped the historic downturn in the stock market.
Journal Article
Federal Reserve System International Facilities
Fed lending to foreign central banks for them to provide emergency lending aids the U.S. economy by stabilizing international financial markets.
Working Paper
Information shares in the U.S. treasury market
This paper is the first to characterize the tatonnement of high-frequency returns from U.S. Treasury spot and futures markets. In particular, we highlight the previously neglected role of the futures markets in price discovery. The lower-bound estimate of bivariate information shares for 30-year Treasury futures typically exceeds 50% from 1998 on. Standard liquidity measures, including the proportion of trades and relative bid-ask spreads, explain daily information shares. These conclusions still hold when one controls for days of macroeconomic announcements. Finally, a 5-dimensional ...
Journal Article
Supporting Small Borrowers: ABS Markets and the TALF
On March 23, the Federal Reserve established the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to support consumer and small business lending.
Journal Article
Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility Supports Main Street
Fed policy appears to have assisted the corporate credit market during a period of unusually high risk and fire-sale prices.
Report
The microstructure of a U.S. Treasury ECN: the BrokerTec platform
We assess the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market following its migration to electronic trading. We model price discovery using a vector autoregression model of price and order flow. We show that both trades and limit orders affect price dynamics, suggesting that traders also choose limit orders to exploit their information. Moreover, while limit orders have smaller price impact, their greater variation contributes more to the variance of price updates. Lastly, we find increased price impact of trades and especially limit orders following major announcements (such as FOMC ...
Journal Article
Fed Intervention in the To-Be-Announced Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities
All the announced MBS purchases are designed to provide liquidity and facilitate trading of agency MBS during a period of disruption associated with the coronavirus.