What do Repo rates and Reverse Repo rates mean?
In finance, “repo” means repurchase agreement, and the “repo rate” is the current interest rate for secured overnight or very short term secured financing involving the sale and repurchase of securities. Its how some securities positions are financed. “reverse repo” is the same transaction from the borrowers perspective. So, those terms make sense to financiers in the securities industry. I dont know that they make sense in the automobile industry, other than “repo” which is short for “repossession”. That of course is what happens when a borrower fails to make a lease or financing payment on her car. Then the “repo man” comes to take the car back as permitted for breach of the financing agreement.
