Who’ll Buy Equities In 2024?
Market participants are understandably concerned about what many argue is a burgeoning supply/demand imbalance in the US Treasury market.
The worry, in a nutshell, is that the buyer base is increasingly composed of price-sensitive investors (as opposed to "price-agnostic" buyers like the Fed) and that'll invariably mean higher yields (i.e., higher borrowing costs for the US government).
We don't talk about it as much, but there's also a supply-demand story in the equity market. The stalwart bu
How should one read that table? Is “Equity ETF net purchases” a subtotal, or another item in the list? I’m also confused by “Equity ETF net purchases” being “–” (zero?) for 2023 and 2024.