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Bob: Overnight Repurchase and Overnight revers Repurchase agreements.

On 1/2/2026 8:45 Brave Search gives this reply to the question "News Federal Repurchase Agreements"

"The Federal Reserve conducted significant repurchase agreement operations in late December 2025, injecting $16 billion into the banking system on December 30 through overnight repurchase agreements, marking the second-largest liquidity injection since the COVID-19 crisis. This action was part of broader temporary open market operations, with the total amount of Treasury securities purchased via repos in December reaching $40.32 billion. As of December 31, 2025, the Federal Reserve had sold $105.993 billion in reverse repurchase agreements, indicating a substantial withdrawal of liquidity from the financial system."

"Reverse Repurchase Agreements (RRP) Activity: As of December 31, 2025, the total value of reverse repurchase agreements (RRP) conducted by the Federal Reserve stood at $105.993 billion, reflecting a significant reduction in reserves from the banking system."

"The New York Fed continues to use these operations to manage short-term interest rates and support monetary policy implementation."

Note that Reverse repurchase agreements removes money from the system. Repurchase injects it into the system. I think that this figure is for the entire year and not just late December.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/repurchaseagreement.asp"

snip..."For example, the Fed used repos to inject liquidity into the economy in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It used reverse repos as part of its quantitative tightening in the years that followed. "

Stresses in the financial system....perhaps the massive amounts of fraud that have been discovered are having some effect. If the government is no longer funding fraudulant operations it might affect the receipts of some banks.
Silver. It is both a precious and industrial metal. Lately Silver prices have gone up dramatically. The rise in prices might cause a cascade of derivitaves that require banks to actually produce or deliver the metals and they loaned requiring them to buy the metal on the open market to avoid cascading defaults in the system. And, China will apparently not allow Silver out of their country as of tomorrow. I dunnoh. Whatever it might be a while before we find out what it is. I hope that the Fed action stopped it.