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Overnight Repo
(redirected from Overnight Repurchase Agreements)

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Overnight repo
A repurchase agreement with a term of one day.

Overnight Repo
A practice in which a bank or other financial institution buys securities with the proviso that the seller repurchase the same securities the following day. Financial institutions do this in order to raise short-term capital. See also: Overnight loan.

overnight repo
A repurchase agreement in which securities are sold provided that they will be repurchased on the following day. Financial institutions use overnight repos as a means of raising short-term money for financing inventories.


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No overnight repurchase agreements (repo) were held with the CBJ on 29/07/2010, the bank said.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank added $50 billion in liquidity to money markets through overnight repurchase agreements, known as repos.
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