By Michael S. Derby and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve liquidity facilities saw much less interest from Wall Street than expected on Tuesday as the third quarter came to a surprisingly quiet close. On Tuesday, money market funds and other eligible firms parked $49.1 billion at the central bank’s overnight reverse repo facility. Meanwhile, the Standing Repo Facility, or SRF, lent $6 billion to eligible firms. Both of those tallies were much less than the admittedly uncertain ...

By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -A day ahead of what is expected to be very volatile conditions in money markets, a top Federal Reserve Bank of New York official said on Monday that markets are still flush with liquidity, central bank tools are in place to manage temporary hiccups, and in any case some level of chop in money market rates is healthy. “Our indicators currently suggest that reserves are still abundant,” said Julie Remache, deputy manager of the bank’s System Open Market Account and Head of ...