Federal Reserve Alert! Fed releases Financial Stability Report, their framework for assessing the resilience of the U.S. financial system and presents the Board’s current assessment. They see as vulnerabilities: Asset valuations, Borrowing by business and households, Leverage, and Funding Risks.
Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/financial-stability-report-20221104.pdf Against this backdrop, our view of the current level of vulnerabilities is as follows: Asset valuations. Higher interest rates and a weaker outlook for the economy led prices of financial assets to fall amid heightened volatility, but real estate prices remained elevated. Measures of equity prices relative to expected earnings declined. Risk premiums in equity and … Read more