The last day of the year held some surprises for traders who were already in a festive mood: from an odd 15 spike in the S&P in the last second of trading, to a record surge in the overnight repo rate, to a bizarre inversion in the Treasury curve.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-01/repo-rate-soars-most-record-yield-curve-goes-nuts-year-end-liquidity-chaos

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