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At the same time, use of the Fed’s standing repo facility — seen as a liquidity spigot for financial institutions in search of short-term cash to finance their operations — increased in late October.

The spigot will reopen next week with important reports from Nvidia, which will shed new light on the AI trade, and from Home Depot, Walmart and Target, which will provide an important state-of-the-consumer update.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting before Congress shut off the spigot.

“They can turn the spigot on or off whenever they want to.”

China’s gambit underscored the dangers of relying on a national superpower that can damage fortunes by turning off the trade spigot.