Latest data show major Central Banks’ balance sheet flat on the week, with growing divergence between “Big Two”. The #PBoC draining liquidity at pace, while #Fed liquidity expanding gently. Bank of Japan data show similar act@liquidity.com for full reports pic.twitter.com/zC33nD5xqt …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Then there’s the sinkhole of $1.5 trillion in MBS and $617 billion in Treasuries that mature in over 10 years. In March, the Fed shed $34 billion in assets, according to the Fed’s balance sheet for …
by SpontaneousDisorder This is the process by which their balance sheets have expanded in recent years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing Quantitative easing Quantitative easing (QE), also known as large-scale asset purchases, is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys predetermined amounts …
China’s $32 trillion problem. No worries, right? China’s unbelievably massive hidden debt is something that can’t be papered over. This can’t be swept under the rug. The problem is only getting worse and of course, there’s nothing stopping this as …
But (well-connected?) investors started smelling a rat 10 months before the first disclosure. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Shares of the UK’s fastest growing high street lender, Metro Bank, are in free fall. They tumbled 16% …
via CNBC: A big change in lease accounting rules effective Jan. 1 requires companies to record operating leases on their balance sheets. Operating leases include everything a company rents to run its business, from office space, equipment, factories to planes …
by Lance Roberts Bill Dudley, who is now a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Economic Policy Studies and previously served as president of the New York Fed and was vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, recently penned an …
by confoundedinterest As Bruce Springsteen famously mumbled, The Fed’s Balance Sheet is “Goin’ Down.” As of Feburary 6, 2016, The Federal Reserve of New York further shrank The Fed’s Balance Sheet by $14.2 billion. This week it was $11.665 billion of US …
by David Haggith We are in the end time of an unprecedented era of financial expansion — the greatest expansion of the world’s money supply ever attempted, expansion of the Federal Reserve’s vast and unchecked powers far beyond what the Fed …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In fact, QE started reversing at the end of 2014. The Fed’s balance sheet would be “substantially smaller” after the Fed gets done with its QE unwind, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said on Thursday. How far …
via yahoo: Fed Piles Up $66 Billion in Paper Losses as It Faces Trump Wrath (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is piling up unrealized losses on its $4.1 trillion bond portfolio, raising questions about its finances at a politically dicey …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Federal Reserve shed $54 billion in assets over the five weekly balance sheet periods that encompass the calendar month of November. This reduced the assets on its balance sheet to $4,086 billion, the lowest since …
What is your favorite indicator to watch on a regular basis? Traders are on edge as stocks haven’t been able to make new highs, confusing those who have entered into the same in the passed decade.A downward trend is here …
Brexit Deal Hangs in the Balance With Monday Deadline in Doubt (Bloomberg) — Brexit talks hang in the balance as negotiators work through the weekend, with neither side confident they will clinch a deal in time to meet a self-imposed …
@ 19:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQUAfw0kDk&feature=youtu.be&t=1152 Sean Hannity 9/14/18 | Fox News September 14, 2018 h/t KOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMj8EnQULo Frank Camp for the Daily Wire reports, On Sunday, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and slammed both major political parties during an exchange with host Jake Tapper. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/35646/…
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1038772764306563075 Markets are just losing the "easy money" froth…. Fed balance sheet shrinks $260bn, market corrects $1.6 trillion. Sounds about right. https://t.co/uSgE3WJwYb — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) September 9, 2018 "Mission Accomplished" -10 yrs later the bubble today makes the prior …
World stock market capitalization versus global central bank balance sheets.
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Was “QQE” just a pretext for bringing the government bond market under control to avoid a Greek-style debt crisis? In June, total assets on the Bank of Japan’s balance sheet dropped by ¥3.79 trillion yen ($34 billion) from …
“Are you ready for the upcoming G-5 central bank balance sheet peak?” h/t @AndreasSteno https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1006823490421485573 “Insane. #FED #ECB #BoJ Total assets of major central banks 2007-2018. #CentralBanks are manipulating and distorting all markets. #Yardeni #US #Europe #Japan #bubbles,” h/t @macroymercados …
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St provided an update on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet after the Quantitative Tightening (QT) program has already started but is slated to continue to ramp up for the rest of 2018 until …
by aRedLlama The nuance here is that you want to wait until the statement cuts then pay the full balance on or before the due date. If you pay the balance in full before the statement can even cut, then the issuer will …
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, After nearly a half century of unlimited dollar creation, multiple bubbles and busts…the current asset reflation has been the most spectacular…but alas, perhaps too successful. The Fed’s answer to control or restrain this present reflation is …
The FEderal Reserve has claimed that they would drop off the garbage debt that they own and allow the market to pick up the pieces. That was back in October. Well they have been cutting back to a very small …
via the MacoTourist Remember all the hullabaloo back in September about the Federal Reserve’s decision to shrink their balance sheet? Believe it or not, it was somewhat of a big deal and many strategists were warning about the lack of …
by Anthony B Sanders The Federal Reserve of New York just released their weekly System Open Market Account Holdings report. The Federal Reserve Balance Sheet actually grew by $705 million (rather than shrink as Janet Yellen indicated a few months ago). …
by Anthony B Sanders The good news? The Fed continued to unwind its $4.4 TRILLION balance sheet. The bad news? The Fed is shrinking it at sloth-like speed. As an example, the latest SOMA report from the Fed on New York …
by David Haggith Is the Federal Reserve’s Great Unwind already coming unwound? I thought it would be good to check up on Federal Reserve balance sheet reduction since the Fed is supposed to be up and running on the move out …
Jeremiah Johnson July 7th, 2017 SHTFplan.com In the days following the 241st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the country is in an even more precarious position than it was in 1776. We face a situation of a …
By Michael Snyder On Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would nominate Neil Gorsuch to fill the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Gorsuch currently serves on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, and he was …