Head Of NY Fed’s Trading Desk: “Fed’s Purchases May Stop Entirely”

Head Of NY Fed’s Trading Desk: “Fed’s Purchases May Stop Entirely”

Head Of NY Fed’s Trading Desk Says If Markets Continue Improving, Fed’s Purchases May Stop Entirely. Stocks have gone nowhere since the Fed’s balance sheet started shrinking modestly in mid-June. This morning, Miller Tabak picked up on this observations, writing that “Maybe we’re wrong. ...
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JPMorgan Turns Bearish

JPMorgan Turns Bearish

JPMorgan Turns Bearish, Sees Unattractive Risk-Reward For Stocks In H2. It may come as a surprise to some, but just two weeks after JPMorgan said it was turning bullish on the US, officially upgrading US equities to Overweight after holding a missing...
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$18 Trillion In Global Stimulus In 2020

$18 Trillion In Global Stimulus In 2020

Over $18 Trillion In Global Stimulus In 2020, 21% Of World GDP – the latest observations from BofA chief investment officer, Michael Hartnett who concluded that there is just one bull market to short – namely credit – “and the Fed wo...
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Investor Legend Jeremy Grantham Is “Amazed” At This Unprecedented Stock Bubble

Investor Legend Jeremy Grantham Is “Amazed” At This Unprecedented Stock Bubble

The generally cheerful investing icon Jeremy Grantham unleashed fire and brimstone, taking his $7.5 Billion portfolio to a net short position for the first time since the Global financial crisis, and summarizing his dire assessment of the current unprecedented...
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The FED Has Monetized All Treasury Issuance In 2020

The FED Has Monetized All Treasury Issuance In 2020

There is no more controversial entity in the US, more inflammatory yet out of the spotlight of public outrage, than the Federal Reserve: it is the FED’s actions over the past 108 years – and especially over the past decade...
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ECB Preparing To Run QE Without Bundesbank

ECB Preparing To Run QE Without Bundesbank

The shape of Europe’s massive monetary injection may change dramatically in the coming months. According to Reuters, citing four sources, the ECB has drafted contingency plans to carry out its multi-trillion QE programme without the Bundesbank in case Ge...
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Morgan Stanley Is The Fifth Of Six Major U.S. Banks To Refuse To Finance Oil Drilling In Arctic

Morgan Stanley Is The Fifth Of Six Major U.S. Banks To Refuse To Finance Oil Drilling In Arctic

After nine years, the U.S. banks finally know the reason. Morgan Stanley the fifth of six major U.S. banks to announce that they would not fund any future oil drilling in Arctic refuges, bringing the total list of major Arctic drilling divesters...
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“We Print It Digitally”, Powell Vows “Lot More We Can Do”

“We Print It Digitally”, Powell Vows “Lot More We Can Do”

It took Jerome Powell just two days to confirm what analysts said late on Friday, namely that with the Fed expected to boost QE by over $3 Trillion (assuming Powell doesn’t cut rates negative), the Fed chair said that “there’s...
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U.S. Financial System “Warning System” Failed to Flash Warning as Fed Pumped $6 Trillion Emergency Liquidity into Wall Street

U.S. Financial System “Warning System” Failed to Flash Warning as Fed Pumped $6 Trillion Emergency Liquidity into Wall Street

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) was created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) informed on emerging threats that have the potential to implode the financial system — as o...
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BlackRock Begins Buying Junk Bond ETFs For The FED Today

BlackRock Begins Buying Junk Bond ETFs For The FED Today

BlackRock begins buying junk bond ETFs for the FED today and it’s already at work for the Central Bank of Israel. It’s off to the races today for BlackRock. The New York Fed, with authority from the Federal Reserve Board...
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The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance

The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance

For The First Time Ever, The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance. While daytraders look transfixed at a stock market which continues to surge higher even as the US has lost around 22 million jobs in the past...
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SoftBank Reports Stunning $25 Billion Q1 Loss

SoftBank Reports Stunning $25 Billion Q1 Loss

In an announcement that should surprise absolutely nobody who has been paying attention to WeWork fiasco, SoftBank announced in a corporate filing on Monday that the Japanese telecom conglomerate with a VC arm expected to report the biggest loss in...
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FED To Start Buying Junk Bonds

FED To Start Buying Junk Bonds

As free markets are actually dead, back on March 23, when the Fed unveiled it would start buying investment grade corporate bonds, many analysts said “now that the Fed is effectively all in, it will buy stocks and junk bonds next.” Two weeks...
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Bailouts for the Rich, the Virus for the Rest of Us

Bailouts for the Rich, the Virus for the Rest of Us

For the second time in a generation, the President and Congress are creating an artificial economy under the guise of ‘saving the economy.’ Through bailouts for the executives of corporations and institutions whose coffers have been emptied for their own.....
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The Real Reason for The Rescue: JPM and Citi Have $2.96 Trillion in Exposure to CDS

The Real Reason for The Rescue: JPM and Citi Have $2.96 Trillion in Exposure to CDS

JPMorgan Chase and Citibank Have $2.96 Trillion in Exposure to Credit Default Swaps. According to the most recent report from the regulator of national banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), JPMorgan Chase has exposure to $1.2 trillion i...
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