Significant green arrows. It looks like the dow futures are indicated up by over 160 points. Nasdaq futures indicated up by 115. S p futures are up 27. Of course, this is coming after a rough week last week. You are now talking about the s p on track for the worst month since december of 2022. You have the s p back be low 5,000. We are watching this closely. This has all been happening with treasury yields picking up. You will see it looks like the tenyear note is all the way up to 4. 658 . Twoyear note at 5 . This is a significant run in the bond yields and thats been responsible for the april pullback we have seen in stocks. The april pullback has been responsible for erasing the gains for the First Quarter of the year. We saw the highs on march 28th. You are talking about the s p at 5. 5 from the record close. We have been watching crude oil prices which has been picking up on concerns in the middle east. You see it is down 31 cents for wti. Lets look at bitcoin as well after the cr
Higher on the day a it came even as treasury yields move back towards fouryear thghs. Dow jones industrial average advanced 410 points to 24,601 capping its strongest twoday surgeince mid2015. The nasdaq added 107 and the p was up 36. Of gains follow a heavy bout selling that dominated wall street over the past two weeks and theres still a lot of questions about the health of the wall stre bull. From antoli picks it up there. One of the sharpest market drops in years has stirred up a new debate on wall street. This is sply a needed pullback for stocks or a sign that the bull market mhtnd before its ninth birthday next month . And falling more than 10 since lasts low point, the major indexes suffered the fastest decline in 80 years. Whilejarring, the swiftness of the move actually supports the idea that this is likely a painful correction rather than the start of a more prolonged bear market that wou send stocks down 20 or more. Typically, a bear market doesnt begin so suddenly from a p
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In 2020, the Federal Reserve’s Portfolio of Corporate Bonds and ETFs Rose to $14 Billion
That is according to its latest presentation to Congress. That is up from $13.6 billion at the end of November. While the Fed has stopped buying ETFs, it has kept buying individual company bonds on the secondary market, with a total face value of $5.2 billion.
The Fed has been buying bonds of companies that are rated investment grade, as well as bonds of companies that were rated investment grade before the pandemic. About 41% of the bonds are rated A or higher, while just over half are rated BBB. About 13% of the corporate bond ETFs by market value are classified as high yield.