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It’s The Klonopin, Pat. (Let’s Talk About The Fed’s Corporate Bond-Buying)

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020

An anecdote.

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The Fed Will Be Building A Corporate Bond Portfolio. Or Didn’t You Believe Them?

June 15, 2020June 23, 2020

“It would be helpful if you soon began buying in size.”

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12 Comments on The Fed Will Be Building A Corporate Bond Portfolio. Or Didn’t You Believe Them?

Another Week, Another Huge Haul For Credit Funds, As Inflows Hit $92 Billion In Two Months

June 11, 2020

The tsunami continues.

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Betting On The Fed: Tsunami Into Credit Funds Smashes Records

June 4, 2020

Insatiable.

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Here’s A Quick Breakdown Of The Fed’s ETF Portfolio

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020

“Red lines”.

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Fed Engineers $1 Trillion Miracle In US Corporate Bond Market

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

“…the perfect answer for a central bank dealing with a credit crunch”.

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Why A Massive Debt-To-Equity Swap May Be Coming

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

“…equity markets are set to experience a wave of capital raisings”.

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$7 Trillion And Signs Of Addiction.

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

As ever, the whole thing is a bit of a paradox.

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9 Comments on $7 Trillion And Signs Of Addiction.

Why You Have No Choice But To Buy Corporate Bonds Despite Black Swan Bankruptcy Spiral

May 20, 2020

Wicker giraffes and decorative plates.

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Behold: The ‘Powell Effect’ On The World’s Most Popular Investment Grade Credit ETF

May 19, 2020May 20, 2020

The Fed found what transpired in late March to be wholly distasteful.

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8 Comments on Behold: The ‘Powell Effect’ On The World’s Most Popular Investment Grade Credit ETF

Don’t Fear The Zombies.

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

What happens after that? How do you sort that out? Spoiler alert: You can’t.

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Behold! The Fed’s First $305 Million In ETF Purchases

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020

Call it a “nibble”.

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As Fed Wades Into Credit, One Bank’s Clients Are ‘The Most Bearish On Fundamentals We Have Ever Seen’

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

“So it would be helpful if you soon began buying in size”.

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Deutsche’s Kocic On Risk Premia, ‘The Missing Variable,’ And The Elusive Post-COVID Reality

May 9, 2020May 10, 2020

For now, he says, most of this “remain[s] largely out of grasp”.

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The Fed Effect On Flows, And A $4.7 Trillion Cash Pile Suddenly Facing Negative Returns

May 8, 2020

Flow reversals and the “cost of cash”.

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Freight Trains.

May 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Choose wisely.

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The Fed May Have Already Saved Taxpayers $60 Billion In Averted Boeing Bailout

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020

Critics will be critics, though.

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Well, Is There A Future Or Isn’t There?

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

“Yeah, sport, I know there’s a blizzard.”

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There Will Be Scars.

April 19, 2020April 20, 2020

But “there are believers out there.”

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Write-Offs.

April 17, 2020April 18, 2020

They told us to “look through” it. And so, we did.

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Silver Linings In Abundance.

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020

“…it doesn’t pay to rail that traders are getting it wrong if you don’t like how things go.”

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Harley Bassman: Fed Now Risks ‘Eroding The Basic Foundation Of Capitalism’

April 14, 2020

“It is never different this time.”

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Junk Bonds’ Guardian Angel Is Only So Benevolent

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Not everyone is a winner.

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Once Red-Hot Private Debt Market Sees 41% Collapse In Fundraising Amid Virus Tumult

April 11, 2020November 22, 2020

Back in January, JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou noted that persistent underperformance from hedge funds over long

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Friday

April 9, 2020April 10, 2020

“The world has indeed changed”.

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Fed Takes In Fallen Angels, Will Buy Junk Bonds, High Yield ETFs

April 9, 2020December 31, 2020

Are you concerned about “fallen angel” risk in the credit market? Put differently, are you

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The World Desperately Needs More Dollars. And The IMF Knows It.

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020

The swap lines aren’t enough. And neither is the foreign repo facility.

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