Liquidity

Market liquidity plays a crucial role in the stability of financial system and central banks across the world pay a close attention to the development of liquidity in all asset classes. In this report, we discuss what do currents liquidity conditions imply for the market health.

In the face of the low money market interest rates, returns offered by investments in money markets products have been declining steadily. While money market fund managers managed to turn in slightly positive performances in 2015, this could prove more daunting in 2016.

Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, announced trading volumes for February 2016. The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was significantly up at 249,664 contracts (+10.5% compared with February 2015) and the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives was also up at 281,497 contracts (+6.3% compared with February 2015).

Global liquidity conditions may have begun to tighten for emerging market economies (EMEs), according to updated data from the Bank for International Settlements. BIS General Manager Jaime Caruana detailed highlights from the latest global liquidity indicators, a measure of the ease of financing in global financial markets...

The CGFS report, Fixed income market liquidity, finds signs of greater fragility, with liquidity conditions being more susceptible to disruptions, such as sudden stops of liquidity in key segments of the market and a deterioration of market depth metrics.