There Is Just One Question: Will The Fed Activate A Coordinated Central Bank Bailout On Sunday
With global markets in freefall, the S&P opening 3% lower and cementing its worst week since the global financial crisis; the Dow (or is thar Down Joanes) plunging more than 4,000 points this week, traders (especially levered ones) are left with just one option to stave off a career (and personal fortune)-ending margin call: praying, though not to god but rather to the Fed.
To be sure, the Fed itself has given enough reasons for this: on Monday the biggest uber-dove in history, former Minneapolis Fed and the Fed’s only negative “dot” ever, Narayana Kocherlakota penned a Bloomberg op-ed saying the Fed should cut not once but twice, and do it on an emergency basis ahead of the March FOMC meeting.
Then, this morning, one day after he penned a similar Op-Ed, former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh – who has finally crushed his “hawkish” facade as he guns to replace Powell as the Fed’s Chair – echoed Kocherlakota when he said he expects the Fed and other central banks around the world to act soon in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Warsh, no longer even pretending to give a rat’s ass about efficient markets and price discovery that is independent of Fed manipulation, recommended the Fed act as quickly as Sunday to assuage financial markets that have been in an aggressive swoon all week as the virus has spread.
“Chairman Powell needs to reach out to his counterparts around the world and buy some time. That’s what a quarter-point could do.” Former Fed Gov. Warsh says the Fed should respond quickly to coronavirus fears: “I think the sooner they cut the better.” https://cnb.cx/2wT2oTj
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