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Fed Plans to Wind Down a Pandemic Corporate Credit Facility The Fed plans to start the process with ETFs with the selling of corporate bonds to begin later in the summer. The aim is to complete the exercise by the end of the year.
Craig Torres and Paula Seligson | Jun 03, 2021
(Bloomberg) The Federal Reserve Board plans to begin gradually selling a portfolio of corporate debt purchased through an emergency lending facility launched last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading panic through financial markets.
“Portfolio sales will be gradual and orderly, and will aim to minimize the potential for any adverse impact on market functioning by taking into account daily liquidity and trading conditions for exchange traded funds and corporate bonds,” the Fed said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Investment-grade corporate bonds have been among the poorest performers in debt markets this year and rising U.S. Treasury yields are stoking worries that worse has yet to come.
Investors who hold bonds from highly rated companies lost about 0.90% on average this year through Jan. 20, according to a Bloomberg Barclays bond index reported by FactSet. That compares with a 0.63% return on high-yield bonds and a 0.10% performance from municipal debt.
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