How to Use repurchase agreement in a Sentence

repurchase agreement

noun
  • These trades are known as overnight repurchase agreements, or repos.
    — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • The sale was part of a share repurchase agreement the two parties reached back in April.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2025
  • When the repurchase agreements come due, the central bank could choose, in effect, to extend them if needed.
    — The Economist, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The fund holds cash, US Treasury bills and repurchase agreements.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
  • In a reverse repurchase agreement, the buyer of a security agrees to sell it back at a later date.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Last Friday, bank-to-bank dealing in the overnight repurchase agreement market hit a record of more than $900 billion.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • On September 17, the rate on overnight repurchase agreements, or repos, soared as high as 10%.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
  • These could come from offsetting different kinds of trades, for example, derivatives against sale-and-repurchase agreements.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 11 July 2017
  • Phillips and the automaker went back and forth over the vehicle, with the arbitrator settling on a repurchase agreement that Phillips thought was unfair.
    — Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Phillips and the automaker went back and forth over the vehicle, with the arbitrator settling on a repurchase agreement that Phillips thought was unfair.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Fed made a separate technical move to expand the limit per counterparty on what is known as an overnight reverse repurchase agreement.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The rate on overnight repurchase agreements hit 5% on Monday, according to Refinitiv data.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
  • JPMorgan is using blockchain in repurchase agreement markets.
    — Greg Ritchie, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The move came after the overnight rate on Treasury repurchase agreements, which are short-term loans used by financial institutions like hedge funds and banks, surged at the start of the week amid a shortage of dollars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Money markets aren’t much different, and the Fed now provides them with the ultra-safe option of parking cash at its reverse repurchase agreement facility.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For the first time since November, banks tapped the Fed’s foreign repurchase agreement facility for $60 billion.
    — Craig Torres, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Glitches in the market for repurchase agreements in recent months have drawn attention to swings in the amount of cash reserves that the Treasury holds at the Federal Reserve.
    — Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
  • Take-up at the System's overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility averaged somewhat less than in the previous period.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The company finances its portfolio primarily through repurchase agreements.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
  • But some said the incident exposed cracks in the multitrillion-dollar market for repurchase agreements, known as repo, where banks and hedge funds borrow cash mainly using Treasurys as collateral.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The overnight reverse repurchase agreement, or reverse repo, facility has allowed the Fed to sop up excess liquidity from the economy by giving banks or big money managers a way to park cash and earn a return.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 2 June 2022
  • The New York Fed’s new rate is based on the rates in the active market for a kind of short term-loan known as a repurchase agreement, or repo, which uses Treasury securities as collateral.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The Federal Reserve has already bailed out huge asset managers and other shadow banks by backstopping money-market funds, repurchase agreements, and other corporate financing tools.
    — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • As trading resumed Monday, the People’s Bank of China injected $173 billion into the money markets through reverse repurchase agreements.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Last September, the Fed confronted an unexpected surge in short-term rates that many tied to a tax payment date and Treasury debt auction settlement that limited big banks’ ability to lend in what is called the repurchase agreement, or repo, market.
    — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
  • On Wednesday, the bank also announced an extension of its temporary US dollar liquidity swap lines and the repurchase agreement facility for foreign central banks and international monetary authorities until March next year.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 29 July 2020

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