Fed Moves to Clean Up Unfulfilled MBS Purchase Commitments, Resolve Fails
July 2, 2010
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York this week announced that it will undertake some MBS coupon swaps to help resolve the agency’s outstanding purchase commitments in the agency market. As of June 23, the Fed still had about $16.99 billion of outstanding commitments to buy agency MBS, and no pending commitments to sell. Like other investors in the MBS... [Includes one chart]