ZeroHedge by Tyler DurdenMon, 12/02/2019 – 08:33 One week after the Fed’s first 42-day term repo which for the first time allowed dealers to lock in funding into the new year and which was 2x oversubscribed, confirming a growing scramble for year-end funding, traders were keenly looking ahead to the result from today’s second 42-day repo…
Courtesy of Zero Hedge by Tyler DurdenMon, 12/02/2019 – 10:05 As the Federal Reserve remains unable to stoke inflation (because it refuses to measure it correctly) and refuses to factor in asset price inflation… … it has now considered launching a new rule that would let inflation run above its 2% target to make up for…
By Stefania Spezzati, Donal Griffin, and Viren VaghelaNovember 28, 2019, 10:36 AM CST Updated on November 29, 2019, 2:35 AM CST Morgan Stanley fired or placed on leave at least four traders over an alleged mismarking of securities that concealed losses of between $100 million and $140 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The firm is investigating the suspected mismarking, which…
Authored by Christoph Gisiger via TheMarket.ch, Tad Rivelle, Chief Investment Officer of the Californian bond house TCW, doubts that the Central Banks can prevent the impending economic downturn. He spots increasing signs of stress in the credit sector and recommends holding safe assets to be prepared for turmoil in the financial markets. Mr. Rivelle, who rarely gives interviews,…
on November 15, 2019 By Nicholas LePan Today, we live in a low-interest-rate environment, where the cost of borrowing for governments and institutions is lower than the historical average. It is easy to see that interest rates are at generational lows, but, as Visual Capitalist’s Nicholas LePan notes below, did you know that they are also at 670-year…
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