is in defensive & large - cap stocks, no matter how highly valued they are / become — due to a tsunami of
central bank liquidity which has scarcely dented the real economy, it's mostly been redirected into asset inflation.
Not exact matches
Most likely, this reflects
central banks» aggressive
liquidity injections,
which have translated into an increasing conviction among investors that major tail risks have been indefinitely removed.
As a result, primary dealers are the most influential non-governmental players in global financial markets,
which is why they supposedly must meet certain
liquidity and quality requirements and provide
central banks with analysis and market intelligence on the state of the worldwide markets.
By late - morning in London, the dollar was 3.7 % higher against it at 63.12, although the move was exaggerated by the fact that neither the Russian
central bank nor big Russian corporates,
which have been instructed to provide dollar
liquidity to the local market were in the market due to the Orthodox Christmas holiday.
Net new loans surpassed the previous record of 2.51 trillion yuan in January 2016,
which is likely to support growth not only in China but may underpin
liquidity globally as major Western
central banks begin to withdraw stimulus.
Banks are relying on the short end of the curve for much of their funding, which has been facilitated by the influxes of liquidity provided by the central banks, but challenges remain in the mid - to longer
Banks are relying on the short end of the curve for much of their funding,
which has been facilitated by the influxes of
liquidity provided by the
central banks, but challenges remain in the mid - to longer
banks, but challenges remain in the mid - to longer end.
On Monday, the European
Central Bank will meet to discuss the emergency
liquidity provided to Greek
banks (
which is currently capped, forcing capital controls to be imposed a week ago).
Central banks around the world pumped trillions of dollars of
liquidity into the financial markets,
which experts say helped send the stock market to record highs.
This is the insanity of the financial world to
which the
central banks continue to provide
liquidity.
The world's
central banks have been busy adding
liquidity to the financial system,
which provides the backdrop for a Minsky Moment for complacency in the realm of ZIRP creates instability below the surface.
But the roots are global as well and at least one of the roots is financial repression
which is the major
central bank's policies over the last nine years of recovery to drop interest rates to zero to buy risk assets, to push investors into risk assets and generate a lot of
liquidity and credit.
Later today, the European
Central Bank will meet to discuss the possibility of a
liquidity lifeline to Greek
banks which have been shut since last Monday.
He concludes that in fact
liquidity, meaning
bank reserves plus money in circulation (the monetary base,
which is what
central banks control directly) has not increased.
Second, you see the crisis responses: 1) the loan programs in the US,
which explode and trail away and 2) the
Central Bank Liquidity Swaps,
which explode, trail away, and have come back in what is presently a muted form today.
By the same token, the European
Central Bank (ECB) intends to slow its asset purchases (a.k.a. «tapering»),
which has the same effect as removing $ 500 billion in
liquidity injections.
Most dangerous of all,
central banks have delivered unprecedented global
liquidity, naturally accompanied by a huge & ongoing compression in market volatility —
which inevitably leads to over-confident & over-leveraged investors, who can not help but sow the seeds of their own eventual destruction...
And Europe now has a handy US template for reference, it's probably 2 years behind the US in its economic cycle, and (most importantly) its
central bank still has immense
liquidity & fire - power at its disposal (vs. the Fed,
which is now flirting — probably fairly pointlessly — with the prospect of rising rates).
But at the other end of the spectrum, in the floating world, investors are increasingly risk - agnostic about buying the biggest & best blue - chips —
which are the primary beneficiaries of a world awash in a
central bank tsunami of
liquidity & quantitative easing.