To be sure,
global policy liquidity has played the lead role in pushing asset prices to new highs, with strong correlations across both risk - free and risky assets.
To be sure,
global policy liquidity has played the lead role in pushing asset prices to new highs, with strong correlations across both risk - free and risky assets.
Not exact matches
Goldman Sachs said in a note last week that factors including weaker economic activity, lower - than - expected headline inflation, continued tightness in
liquidity conditions and subdued
global activity and dovish central banks around the world could push the RBI to ease its
policy.
While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the
global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary
policies is now supporting a growing excess of
global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.
However, further regional
policy divergence, slow emerging markets growth and
global liquidity risks are likely to keep market volatility higher, meaning effectively navigating a low - return world will remain a challenge.
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.
These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market,
liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including
global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants,
global environmental
policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other
policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.
Overall, we think
global growth, fiscal
policy and organically derived forms of
liquidity will likely more than offset the slow pace of central bank tightening this year.
Since the
global financial crisis, U.S.
policy makers have focused on strengthening major banks with more capital and
liquidity requirements so they could withstand periods of volatility like this one and continue lending.