What Would Happen If ETF Holders Sold All At Once?
Tyler Durden: The realization that there is, as of this moment, at best negligible and very often zero liquidity in bonds (or even stocks) is known by most: a topic we first discussed back in the summer of 2013 (a good place to start is Phantom Markets: Why The TBAC Is Suddenly Very Worried About Market Liquidity) has become so pervasive that even the BIS admitted last week bond market liquidity has cratered, with some estimates suggesting that corporate bond liquidity is down 90% since Lehman, mostly thanks to central banks’ unprecedented absorption of some $5 trillion in “high quality collateral” from the private market.