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Total Return Review – The Wild Ride Continues for Many Markets
May 1, 2020
The markets continued their wild ride from a total return perspective in April.
The markets continued their wild ride from a total return perspective in April.
Bond mutual funds and ETFs saw a record outflow from bond funds in March, with investors choosing to park an additional $864 billion in government-only money market funds.
Today's topics include Treasury issuance, the Fed's relationship with the Treasury, tweaking the Main Street Lending program, getting creative during crude oil's storage shortage, looking at the long-term, small caps close the gap, liquidity vs. solvency risks, European GDP, and more on fiscal vs. monetary policy.
Tracking the Fed's words
Today's topics include jobless claims, watch out for Q1 GDP revisions, differentiating between a solvency crisis and liquidity crisis, ETF pricing, China's crude oil contract, Eurozone GDP, some thoughts on market timing, and convertible bonds.
A look at the size of various markets compared to the U.S. economy.
Today's topics include previewing today's FOMC meeting, the Fed's corporate bond purchases, stock prices vs. COVID cases, more problems with small business loans, market breadth, the retail crowd jumps into the trading game, the price of crude oil, and globalization.
A replay of our April 30, 2020 conference call
At some point the economy will have to restart and people will return to work, but many questions remain. What will a restart look like? What kind of economic life will we return to? The economy needs to regain nearly 100% of its pre-virus activity to avoid a long stagnation. Georgia's reopening this week should provide a window into our economic future.