Basis Points - Strategizing with Reinvestment for Future Capital Needs
Not surprisingly, the FOMC meeting last week resulted in another 75-basis point rate hike to the Fed Funds rate...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Oct 3
- 2 min
Basis Points - Interest Rates Continue to Increase
This month the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again by 0.75%, and we continue to see significant increases in treasury rates...
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Georgina Walleshauser
- Aug 4
- 2 min
Basis Points: Increases in Short-Term Interest Rates
Minneapolis, MN | August 4, 2022 | Georgina Walleshauser, Assistant Vice President The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again last...
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Georgina Walleshauser
- Jul 5
- 3 min
Considerations for Reserve Funds in the Current Market
The current market is allowing borrowers to realize significant interest earnings through the reinvestment of their debt...
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Georgina Walleshauser
- May 9
- 2 min
Basis Points - Taking Advantage of Intraday Volatility
The current market continues to produce extremely volatile interest rates from week to week, day to day, and even intraday...
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Georgina Walleshauser
- Mar 25
- 2 min
Basis Points - Significant Increase in Yields for Project Funds in the Current Market
The first increase in the Fed Funds rate since 2018 was anticipated by the market months before it occurred...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Final IRS LIBOR Transition Guidance
The Internal Revenue Service published its final regulations on January 4th for the LIBOR transition.
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Project Delayed? Revisit Your Investments
Some issuers recently have started rethinking a choice they made a year ago to invest their bond proceeds for construction funds...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - SLGS Window Remains Closed with New Debt Ceiling
The U.S. government’s debt limit was raised to $28.9 trillion on October 15, 2021 to resolve a pending debt ceiling crisis.
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Sep 24, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - When Will The SLGS Window Reopen?
With the U.S. fiscal year ending on September 30th when government funding is set to expire...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Sep 2, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - Future Opportunities with Cash Funded Escrows
By: Sam Gruer, Managing Director | Minneapolis, MN | September 2, 2021 The recent closure of the SLGS window combined with the extremely...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min
Special News Alert - Pending SLGS Window Closure
The debt ceiling for the United States is currently suspended until July 31 & at that time, it will be set to the amount of debt on that day
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - Debt Service Reserve Funds in the Current Market
In the current market, debt service reserve funds create negative arbitrage for issuers due to the difference...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Basis Points - Refunding Escrows
Blue Rose has experience in structuring, restructuring, and procuring open market escrow portfolios.
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Blue Rose Marketing
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - SLGS Window Reclosing?
As we’ve written previously, the debt ceiling for the United States is currently suspended until July 31, 2021...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - LIBOR Phase-out Update
A few weeks ago, Blue Rose and its sister company, HedgeStar, hosted a webinar relating to the phase-out of the LIBOR Index...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points: Benefit of OMS to SLGS in a Positively Sloping Yield Curve Environment
In past newsletters, we’ve often discussed the impact of an inverted yield curve environment on refunding escrows.
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
Basis Points - Recent Developments in the Repo Market
In the past, Blue Rose has written about the use of Guaranteed Investment Contracts (“GICs”) and compared them with Flexible Repurchase...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Dec 3, 2020
- 2 min
Basis Points: LIBOR Fallback Protocol – Should you adhere?
By: Sam Gruer, Managing Director As regular readers of Basis Points are aware, the London Interbank Offering Rate (LIBOR) is expected to...
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Blue Rose Marketing
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Gaining Liquidity by Liquidating Long-Dated Investment Contracts
By: Georgina Walleshauser, Associate Prior to the financial crisis, long-term interest rates were significantly higher than where they...
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