"What is THE catalyst?"
As all traders know, and as UBS repeats this morning in a new report by credit strategist Matthew Mish, one if not the mostly commonly asked questions is "what events could disrupt global corporate credit markets heading into year-end and early 2018."
Everyone is making a big deal about the Fed's so-called "balance sheet reduction” which starts next month.
Let’s assess some facts.
First of all, the Fed plans on shrinking its balance sheet by $10-$30 billion per month. The Fed balance sheet is currently $4.5 trillion. So at this pace of unwinding it would take somewhere between 13 and 33 years for the Fed to normalize its balance sheet back to pre-2008 levels.
So the notion that this is significant is off base. It borders on irrelevant.
A week after Jamie Dimon made headlines by proclaiming Bitcoin a "fraud" and anyone who owns it as "stupid," the JPMorgan CEO faces a market abuse claim for "spreading false and misleading information" about bitcoin.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past week, you will be well aware of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's panicked outburst with regard the 'fraud' that Bitcoin's 'tulip-like' bubble is. To paraphrase:
Perhaps having grown tired of fighting windmills, it was several weeks since Albert Edwards' latest rant against central banks.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
When I was growing up my father, probably much like yours, had pearls of wisdom that he would drop along the way. It wasn’t until much later in life that I learned that such knowledge did not come from books, but through experience. One of my favorite pieces of “wisdom” was: