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No More Fed Rate Hikes in 2019…

Sandwichman | March 20, 2019 3:25 pm

US Economics

The fundamentals are “sound”?:

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  • Daniel Becker says:
    March 20, 2019 at 3:36 pm

    Why had corp equity taken such a dive?

  • pgl says:
    March 20, 2019 at 4:47 pm

    FRED shows this in level form:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TNWBSHNO

    $108 trillion as of 2018QIII but then only $104 trillion by 2018IV. A 4% drop sounds bad. A $4 trillion drop sounds deadly!

  • pgl says:
    March 20, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    Per Daniel Becker’s question, let’s take a look at what has recently happened to the interest rates on long-term corporate debt rated BBB:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAA

    These rates used to be 4.2% but are now near 5%. Yes an increase in the cost of capital tends to lower discounted cash flows.

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