Economy

The Fed will be buying $75 billion in Treasurys Thursday and Friday as part of stimulus effort

Key Points
  • In the latest in a frenzied series of developments, the New York Fed laid out a schedule for its purchases across a series of maturities.
  • In all, the purchases will total $75 billion, an acceleration from the $40 billion total the Fed had originally set when it announced its latest operations to expand its balance sheet.

The Federal Reserve will be buying $75 billion in Treasurys on Thursday and Friday as the central bank ramps up its efforts to keep markets flowing smoothly amid the coronavirus crisis.

In the latest in a frenzied series of developments, the New York Fed laid out a schedule for its purchases across a series of maturities.

In all, the purchases will total $75 billion, an acceleration from the $40 billion total the Fed had originally set when it announced its latest operations to expand its balance sheet.

The schedule looks like this:

9:40 – 10 a.m. ET: Treasury Coupons 7 to 20 year sector, for around $6 billion

10:30 – 10:50 a.m.: Treasury Coupons 4.5 to 7 year sector, for around $11 billion

11:20 – 11:40 a.m.: Treasury Coupons 2.25 to 4.5 year sector, for around $17 billion

12:10 – 12:30 p.m.: Treasury Coupons 0 to 2.25 year sector, for around $25 billion

1:00 – 1:20 p.m.: Treasury Coupons 20 to 30 year sector, for around $9 billion

1:50 – 2:10 p.m.: TIPS 1 to 7.5 year sector (Thursday)/TIPS 7.5 to 30 year sector (Friday), for around $7 billion

In a separate announcement, the New York Fed said it would conduct an additional $10 billion of purchases in the mortgage-backed securities space "to address highly unusual disruptions in the market" that are "associated with the coronavirus outbreak."

That operation will happen from 11:15-11:45 a.m. ET for settlement on Monday.