A funding backstop the U.S. Federal Reserve launched on Tuesday aims to help address liquidity problems that have lingered in the coronavirus-roiled commercial paper market, but some analysts say the high borrowing costs may limit participation.
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“Just knowing it is available has helped to calm the market,” said Kevin Giddis, head of fixed income at Raymond James. “I don’t know that it’s going to get a whole lot of utilization,” she said. “Having said that, I think it’s good that it’s there and it adds sort of a floor if spreads started to get too wide for whatever reason.”
“Had the Fed wanted to lower the prices of the CPFF and the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility , it would have done so by now,” wrote Zoltan Poszar, money market analyst at Credit Suisse. Companies rely on commercial paper as a source of short-term cash for payrolls, inventory and accounts payable as well as unanticipated funding needs.
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