10 percent overnight? Wow.
10 percent overnight? Wow.
Thats 10% annualized. Overnight they got 1/365th of 10% thanks to a short term situation.
Not so Wow.
The jump in overnight rates was an extremely brief spike that coincided with a tax payment deadline for large corporations, and a holiday in Japan which meant that normal borrowing there wasn’t available so it went here.
This article is making a big deal out of nothing.