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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

Tag: liquidity

  • Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:46 UTC

    The Short-term Liquidity Line: A New IMF Tool to Help in the Crisis

    SLL is designed to address a special balance-of-payments need, potential, moderate, and short-term—reflected in capital account pressures following external shocks.

    By Geoffrey Okamoto – The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the global economy at every level. Across the world, financial conditions have tightened dramatically, with unprecedented portfolio outflows from emerging markets in terms of both size (a record of about US$100 billion) and speed, and markets effectively frozen in some cases. This has created sizable demand for U.S. dollar liquidity, with emerging markets facing sharp liquidity shortages.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:40 UTC

    Massive injection of liquidity in China to help counter economic effects of the epidemic

    Chinese authorities have pledged to use monetary policy tools to ensure liquidity remains reasonably ample and support firms affected by the virus epidemic

    China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion Yuan (US$ 174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday as its stock markets prepare to reopen amid an outbreak of a new coronavirus.