Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Nothing is scarier then crashing markets and one can debate whether his here is a crash or not. When I look at the $VIX ($VIX Shock) and some of the asset classes […]
The S&P seems to have a bead on 2700, despite not trading all night.
New York | The great sucking sound heard last week was the release of accumulated froth in the global equity markets. The FOMC’s decision to…
The S&P futures are trading limit down at 2812 as I write this at 2:50 AM Eastern Time in the US.
I suspect that the PPT will be in action over the next few hours. Whether they’ll be able to get it above support at 2850 or not is the question. And if they do, can they keep it there? If they fail, then we’re in line for an epic crash.
The cycle lineup suggests a low now, at least after this morning’s crash burns out. Here’s what to look out for.
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Everyone with a pension fund or 401K invested in stocks better hope the Fed becomes the buyer of last resort, and soon. Much has been written about what the Federal Reserve cannot do: it can’t stop the Covid-19 pandemic or reverse the economic dama…
Investors and leveraged speculators took the coronavirus panic straight to the bond market last week. Dealers, bless their little hearts, were long up the wazoo. Talk about smellin like a rose.
But somebody was short. Big somebodies. They’re dead. We don’t know where the bodies are buried yet, but the Fed will need to exhume them and fill the graves.