If cross currency basis indicates that USD funding through swaps costs more than it costs to borrow in the money market directly, and this is supposed to show a USD shortsge, then why haven’t the money markets for USD become more expensive to borrow in as well?
Are there two different markets here?
PS. Just moved this to Investment banking. Not getting a peep in corporate finance
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