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A strange thing just happened in the U.S. short-term financing market: on March 19th, benchmark interest rates suddenly dropped sharply, then rebounded the next day. This drop occurred in a corner of the repurchase agreement market, or repo, where corporations borrow money from investors using treasury bonds as collateral. The key repo rate, known as the Treasury GCF Repo Index, fell to 5.142% the other day, down from 5.334% the day before.

Not only are the number of rate cuts diminishing in the bank's forecast, but Larry Summers warns that the odds of another rate hike have risen after March's CPI.