Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Merits of Not Shrinking the Balloon When the Fed first launched QE, they stated they had the "tools" necessary to shrink their ballooning balance sheet. Once the Federal Reserve lifts interest rates from near zero, likely this week, the focus will turn to the other legacy of the crisis-era policies: the Fed's swollen balance sheet.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? Feds Balance Sheet.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A higher ratio of fee income implies less traditional credit risk and less balance sheet usage (therefore higher ROE) but also implies greater market risk related to securities portfolios and potentially higher revenue volatility related to volatility in capital markets.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. So all this makes a precise estimate of the impact that these transactions will have on our balance sheet very complicated, especially at the stage when none of these operations have as yet been undertaken.

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MishTalk

MARCH 28, 2014

reader Dave, a friend, noted that as the Fed jacked up its balance sheet, velocity has mirrored the curve to the downside. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. In response to Will Prices Rise Significantly When Velocity of Money Picks Up?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Covered bond supply has reached its lowest level in nearly two decades as the European Central Bank has been accused of crowding out investors from the market by pushing up prices and depressing yields. This is in spite of an ECB programme announced in September aiming to stimulate the market. The ECB is crowding out investors.

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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 8, 2013

In Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? I posted an interesting chart by reader Tim Wallace of the stock market vs. Fed asset holding (repeated below for convenience). Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. What about foreign central bank assets, especially China and Japan?

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Retail investors aren’t the only ones suffering from the woes of the emerging markets: Procter & Gamble PG +2.06% is feeling the pain of foreign currencies, too. bolivare-per-USD rate, thus the near-$300 million charge P&G now expects to incur on its third quarter balance sheet. certain P&G products — are exchanged.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Reader Gary emailed a link to JP Morgan's Quarterly Market Guide. Central Bank Policy Rates Current Rates Bank of England: 0.50% Bank of Japan: 0.10% Fed: 0.00%-0.25% (currently 0.14%) ECB: 0.05% Central Bank Balance Sheets Three Questions Other than asset bubbles, what do we have to show for this?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2016

Fed Balance Sheet vs. S&P 500 I was playing around with some ideas on the St Louis Fed "Fred" database and came up with this. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned.

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MishTalk

MAY 20, 2014

Yesterday, former fed chair Ben Bernanke said " No Need for Fed to Shrink Balance Sheet ". The Federal Reserve does not need to shrink its $4 trillion-plus balance sheet by even "a dime" for it to normalize monetary policy when the time comes, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said on Monday.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Current Liabilities Cash Much Smaller Than You Think I don't often dive into balance sheets, but did so after reading a Market-Watch opinion by Brett Arends. billion in “off-balance-sheet” liabilities. If “off-balance-sheet” is not included in my totals, then subtract another $31.5 billion and $137.1

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The results of the ECB’s examination of balance sheets worth €22tn, known as the Asset Quality Review, will require the 130 lenders who took part in the exercise to adjust the value of their assets in their accounts or prudential requirements. The 130 banks account for 81.6 per cent of all eurozone assets.

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MishTalk

MARCH 24, 2014

I have to admit (time and time again actually), that this market has gone further, faster, than I thought possible. Over Next Seven Years, Market Will have Negative Returns" I strongly encourage you to read an interview of Jeremy Grantham, by Stephen Gandel, senior editor of Fortune : The Fed is Killing the Recovery. Grantham : No.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. By contrast, J.P.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These securities are sold in order to add liquidity to the mortgage market, thereby making funds available to borrowers. "If If Fannie and Freddie go away, what then happens to the mortgage markets?" In essence, we should return lending to the free market. And we won''t have fixed-rate mortgages." I too support the idea.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

From 1997-2000 the Fed ignored a major bubble in the stock market. He conveniently ignores the fact he was on the Fed in the Greenspan years, that he presided over the biggest property bubble in history, and he also ignores the stock market bubble we are in now. Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away!

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. Shrinking market size. Falling Prices. Increased competition.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Over the past few years, non-financial corporations in a number of EMEs have borrowed heavily through their foreign affiliates in the capital markets, with the debt denominated mainly in foreign currency.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

Marketing and word of mouth help with that Acquisition.) All of this is about revenue, the top line in the balance sheet. All the costs: marketing costs to acquire customers, onboarding costs to activate customers, and product development costs for the product itself. Organizations exist to acquire another customer.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Instituting massive rate hikes in such a situation is certainly a better approach than wasting foreign reserves in market interventions. See above link for charts on Russia money supply growth and Russia''s central bank balance sheet. Russia’s central bank is actually known for being quite conservative.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

This includes analyzing a company’s financial statements, such as its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. An equity researcher also conducts industry research to understand the broader economic and market conditions that may affect a company’s performance.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. The ECB balance sheet has plummeted to 23pc of eurozone GDP from a peak of 32pc in July 2012. The US and China are withdrawing stimulus on purpose. This is "passive tightening" or "endogenous tapering".

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

But now ECB president Mario Draghi, says debt that banks hold to maturity will not have to be set at market value or penalized. The ECB will not force European banks to adjust to market value of sovereign debt portfolios that are classified as held to maturity.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. Obama pretties up his own climate balance, but it doesn’t help the global climate at all if Obama’s carbon dioxide is coming out of chimneys in Germany.” So, too, are the prices on the carbon market in Europe.

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MishTalk

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback. Might the market start pricing in an expectation of higher defaults even if defaults themselves do not soar? What about liquidity risks if the market turns on junk bonds?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Increased market share : assuming the two companies are in the same industry, bringing their resources together may result in larger market share.

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