How to Use repo in a Sentence

repo

1 of 2 adjective

• But the repo man can come for a car if a payment is even a day late.
  — Liz Weston, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• At one point a group of repo men used a helicopter to take back a ski lift.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
• After the family left, repo men showed up for their two cars, and their house was foreclosed.
  — Times Staff, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Without the Fed, the repo market just wouldn't function anymore.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• The central bank had already stepped up its repo purchase offers.
  — Jeff Spross, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2020
• The funds rate, which is the amount that banks charge each other for overnight loans, is the main way the central bank manages short-term interest rates and it can be influenced by moves in the repo rate.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Police say Mathurin fired several shots but missed hitting the repo man.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
• Risks from the process could include wider credit spreads and increased borrowing costs in the repo market for benchmark two-, five-, and 10-year debt modestly.
  — Liz McCormick, Bloomberg.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• When investors questioned the value of those securities, the repo market froze up.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• Max Hardberger, a raffish oceanic repo man, stars in Urbina’s heist story.
  — Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• John Heinkel, a professional repo man with a full head of graying hair and a small and scrappy build, hoists a Lime scooter on its back wheel, setting off the alarm underneath the scooter’s brake.
  — Amy Martyn, The Verge, 24 July 2019
• Everyone agrees that the term embraces the repo man — someone hired by a creditor to collect an outstanding debt.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• And overall, many strategists, economists and some former Fed officials voiced the belief that the repo turmoil is a sign of a larger problems.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• Rates on short-term repo agreements had briefly spiked to nearly 10% earlier this week as financial firms scrambled to find short-term funding.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• During the attack, two other repo men arrived and found their colleague bleeding, police said.
  — Lynh Bui, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• That is, the rate on excess reserves held by banks at the Fed and the reverse repo facility, which is primarily aimed at money-market funds.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• That contrasted with the 0.10% rate seen on the broad general collateral rate, a key rate for firms that borrow and lend cash and securities in the repo market.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020
• The takeover unnerved the financial sector and sent borrowing costs in repo markets higher for smaller banks.
  — WSJ, 26 June 2019
• Still, Chinese central bank officials, who did their best on Monday to cushion the blow by cutting the repo rate and injecting billions of yuan in stimulus, were not happy with investors.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2020
• The prior actions have helped calm the funding market, with repo rates declining to more normal levels after soaring to 10 percent Tuesday, four times last week’s levels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Usually, banks would have swooped in to supply fresh liquidity before conditions got out of line, attracted by the climbing repo rates.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• Responding officers helped adjust the situation and the repo driver continued with the vehicle while the others involved left the area.
  — cleveland, 1 Nov. 2019
• And her recent questioning of the Fed’s overnight borrowing market, referred to as repo operations, which is a critical way the Fed keeps cash flowing through the financial system.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• The second repo operation saw dealers seek $13.2 billion, well...
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020
• The Fed’s repo operations were restarted in September in the wake of unexpected volatility in short-term interest rates.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Fed repo operations take in U.S. Treasury, agency and mortgage bonds from eligible banks in a de facto short-term loan of central-bank cash, collateralized by the bonds.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
• The prior operations have calmed markets, with repo rates declining Wednesday to more normal levels after jumping to 10% on Tuesday, four times last week’s levels.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• The new rates are meant to provide a more reliable data set for overnight borrowing costs across Wall Street, principally for participants in the repurchase agreement, or repo, market.
  — Katy Burne, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• The company this past May formed a new unit with a separate governance team to oversee the repo business, acknowledging its unique role and responsibility.
  — Katy Burne, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
• These financial gymnastics matter because big banks have an outsize effect on repo markets.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019

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repo

2 of 2 noun

• The overnight Treasury repo rate had surged as high as 10% on Tuesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• The repo rate is the one at which the central bank lends money to the country’s commercial banks.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 May 2022
• The rate to borrow 10-year Treasuries in the repo market plunged to minus-4% this week, a very rare occurrence.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2021
• The bank kept its key one-week repo rate at 19%, a move that is unlikely to woo foreign investors back.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• Apart from the cost of deposits and repo rate, banks charge a risk premium, which is based on the profile of a borrower.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 9 July 2020
• The Fed was forced to step in by conducting its first repo operations in more than a decade.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
• Our Rosa spends a little time in an uncharred cab barrel and our repo is just rested a bit longer.
  — Tim Chan, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2021
• In a series of rate cuts in recent months, the bank has lowered the key one-week repo rate to 15% from 19% in early September.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• The Fed’s tweak to its overnight reverse repo rate helped relieve some pressure on banks’ bulging balance sheets.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 11 July 2021
• One is that the three-month yield has stayed fairly flat, likely due in large part to the Fed's intervention in the repo markets since last fall.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
• The Fed’s reverse repo risks: The Fed is seeing money problems of a different kind.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Sweden moved its negative repo rate to zero at the end of 2019, and didn’t reduce it again as the pandemic spread.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• The repo market, which is also part of the short-term lending market, blew up months before the pandemic.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
• Interbank trading is already rising again: Volumes on the overnight repo for the last two weeks were both the highest since 2016.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• First, the repo market started to act weird again recently.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
• Despite lower repo rates (the rate at which RBI lends to banks), credit growth during 2019 declined.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 14 Dec. 2020
• The golf lords probably have a full-time repo man in charge of removing tournaments from Trump clubs.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• The reverse repo rate and interest on excess reserves rate exist to help keep the funds rate within that range.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The change has nothing to do with the Pixel 6, but a different Googler responded with a link to an internal source code repo.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 May 2021
• The repo basically took links that were already available and gathered them in one place.
  — Chris Person, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• During the pandemic, despite high inflation, the repo rate was further slashed by 115 basis points to an all-time low of 4%.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2022
• Most banks in India haven’t fully passed on the benefits of lower repo rates to borrowers.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 9 July 2020
• Not a repo driver, the caller was concerned that the trucker might get hostile, but the semi was turned back over to the owner without incident around noon.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Feb. 2021
• The day after the Fed’s announcement (June 17), demand for reverse repo spiked, rising by 50% in a single day (last data point, blue line).
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 19 June 2021
• December 16th saw a repeat of the factors that had driven the repo rate higher in September.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Eddie Whiteman knows nobody is rooting for the repo man, but his business is hurting.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• When averaged over time, Treasury repo rates are less volatile than U.S. dollar Libor, the statement said.
  — Daniel Kruger and Telis Demos, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• Many were surprised when the rate on overnight repurchase, or repo, agreements surged in mid-September well above the target range for short-term borrowing set by the Fed.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Bank Indonesia kept its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate at 5.75%.
  — Ying Xian Wong, WSJ, 25 July 2023
• China makes surprise rate cut as economic recovery loses steam The trimming of the repo rate — also by 0.1 percentage points to 1.9% — marked its first since August.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024