{"id":54933,"date":"2020-09-07T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54933"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T16:35:44","slug":"weekly-commentary-summer-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54933","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Commentary: Summer of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/weekly-commentary-summer-of-2020.html\">Weekly Commentary: Summer of 2020<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-4248068184039588888\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">QE fundamentally changed finance. What commenced at the Federal Reserve with a post-mortgage finance Bubble, $1 TN Treasury buying operation morphed into open-ended purchases of Treasuries, MBS, corporate bonds and even corporate ETFs holding high-yield \u201cjunk\u201d bonds. Markets assume it\u2019s only a matter of time before the Federal Reserve adds equities to its buy list.<\/p>\n<p>For years now, Treasury bonds (and agency securities) have traded at elevated prices \u2013 low yields \u2013 in anticipation of an inevitable resumption of QE operations\/securities purchases. Conventional analysis has focused on persistent disinflationary pressures as the primary explanation for historically depressed bond yields. While not unreasonable, such analysis downplays the prevailing role played by exceptionally low Federal Reserve interest-rates coupled with latent (and escalating) financial fragility. Meanwhile, near zero short-term rates and historically low Treasury and agency securities yields have spurred a desperate search for yields, significantly inflating the demand and pricing for corporate Credit.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed\u2019s COVID crisis leap into corporate debt has wielded further profound impacts on corporate Credit \u2013 yields, prices and issuance.<\/p>\n<p><i>September 2 \u2013 Financial Times (Joe Rennison): \u201cCompanies have raised more debt in the US bond market this year than ever before\u2026 A $2bn bond from Japanese bank Mizuho and a $2.5bn deal from junk-rated hospital operator Tenet Healthcare helped nudge overall US corporate bond issuance to $1.919tn so far this year, surpassing the previous annual record of $1.916tn set in 2017, according to\u2026 Refinitiv. The surge marks a dramatic revival for the market since the coronavirus-induced rout in March, when prices slumped and yields soared\u2026 \u2018There has been a phenomenal amount of issuance,\u2019 said Peter Tchir, chief macro strategist at Academy Securities\u2026 \u2018It\u2019s been the busiest summer I have ever seen. It\u2019s felt like we have been setting issuance records month after month.\u2019\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Commentary: Summer of 2020 QE fundamentally changed finance. What commenced at the Federal Reserve with a post-mortgage finance Bubble, $1 TN Treasury buying operation morphed into open-ended purchases of Treasuries, MBS, corporate bonds and even corporate ETFs holding high-yield \u201cjunk\u201d bonds. Markets assume it\u2019s only a matter of time before the Federal Reserve adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7756,16861,303,661,662,3650,2202],"class_list":["post-54933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-credit-bubble-bulletin","tag-doug-noland","tag-fed","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-us-federal-reserve","tag-us-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54934,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54933\/revisions\/54934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}