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...China as a "currency manipulator." Like all politicians, he qualified his statement with various good wishes toward the Chinese, but the damage was quickly done. Markets began to wonder if China would retaliate by scaling back its massive purchases of U.S. government debt, contributing to a 70-basis-point sell-off in 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds between...
...jump, costing prospective American homeowners (and many that were seeking to refinance existing mortgages) around 10% more in interest charges. Making home loans more expensive is not a great way to get the housing market moving - nor is it a great way to instill confidence in debt markets. The sell-off quelled a major rally in Treasuries as investors who had been flocking to the safe haven of government paper amid the global recession questioned whether Treasuries had become too expensive. In the last four months of 2008, yields (which decline as prices rise) dropped from...
...Yields are also bound to go lower because demand for U.S. government debt will easily match supply, even though Washington must sell hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds in coming months to fund stimulus measures and bank rescues. Consider the uncanny parallel between the composition of assets on bank balance sheets in 1929 and balance sheets at the start of this crisis. The ratio of loans to investments, which include Treasuries and other securities, was 2.6:1 in 1929 and 2.8:1 in 2008. During the early period of the Great Depression, banks restructured their balance sheets to reflect...
Form 13F requires institutional investment managers to list all holdings in exchange-traded stocks and closed-end companies if they manage over $100 million in such assets. Whereas closed-end companies sell a fixed number of shares which are then traded on exchanges, open-end companies—such as mutual funds—pool publicly-raised money and invest the funds in stocks, bonds, and other securities...
...equity shift follows reports last month of Harvard attempting to sell $1.5 billion of private equity, only to reject buyers’ offers as too low. The move would have marked one of the largest-ever sales of a private equity portfolio, according to the Wall Street Journal...