https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1258461655085789186
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1258462738881351681
obvious: if there is a giant debt there is a giant supplier of debt (central banks) so there is less need of private banks that are only a channel https://t.co/DrdY0TKZ3R
— SpeculaThor☯️✨ (@SpeculaThor) May 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1258565050761203713
Negative Fed Funds rate in the US! Another first for the market in the year 2020. The rest of the decade will have a hard time keeping up with the kind of start we have had.
Chart via WIRP via @TheTerminal pic.twitter.com/OxCUNrCOVd— Rishi Mishra (@aRishisays) May 7, 2020
Record IG issuance so far this week $86 Billion
— Ed Bradford (@Fullcarry) May 7, 2020
Every night in the thinly traded futures…..magical levitation. #NYFed
— John Tuld (@BradHuston) May 8, 2020
"Number of companies with rock-bottom credit ratings has exceeded the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, as dozens of businesses struggling under heavy debt burdens have been downgraded" https://t.co/OVStXC7it0 pic.twitter.com/N09fLwEtKu
— Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) May 7, 2020
As a record number of companies fall into the lowest rungs of junk, Moody's finds that the bulk of them are backed by private-equity companies. https://t.co/1oQQFd4kXI
— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) May 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/NoMorForcedDebt/status/1258402181050400769
The Fed has slowed the pace of its bond buying, but is still expanding its balance sheet at a dramatic pace, with its assets now at $6.7 trillion. pic.twitter.com/hDFoTJVNSv
— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) May 8, 2020