Defying Pivot-Mongers, ECB Hikes by 50 Basis Points, QT Continues, Explains Tools to Calm a Bank Panic while Fighting Inflation Simultaneously by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2023 • 129 Comments A hugely important concept: “There is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability.”
ECB Balance Sheet Drops by €1 Trillion from Peak: QT Milestone by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2023 • 92 Comments Step 1 of QT is operating at full speed. Step 2 of QT is just starting.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: February Update on the Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Feb 16, 2023 • 114 Comments Hangover after a drunken party instigated by the Bank of Canada’s money-printing and interest-rate repression that turned buyers’ brains to mush.
SNB Cuts Holdings of All its Top 50 US Stocks in Q4: Apple Chopped by 8% since Q2. MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, TSLA, XOM, All by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2023 • 47 Comments Here is the list of the Swiss National Bank’s top 50 US stock holdings, and how much of each it dumped.
Back-to-Back Market Smackdowns Coming from the Fed and ECB. Could Be a Hoot by Wolf Richter • Jan 28, 2023 • 258 Comments Surly frustrated central bankers telling euphoric markets that the inflation fight is far from over.
Bank of England Sold All Bonds it Bought Last Fall amid Pension Crisis, First Big Central Bank to Sell Government Bonds Outright by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2023 • 110 Comments At first in baby steps, and then in big chunks. Remember the “pivot to QE” mongers at the time? What a hoot.
ECB’s Balance Sheet Plunges by €492 billion in One Week and by €850 Billion from Peak by Wolf Richter • Dec 28, 2022 • 86 Comments Monetary Rug-Pull? December dump in the markets anything to do with global QT?
Bank of Japan, Last Holdout of “Free Money,” Begins to Tighten: Raises Cap of 10-Year Yield Peg, Paves Way for NIRP Exit by Wolf Richter • Dec 20, 2022 • 65 Comments Yen and 10-year yield spiked. BOJ cited bond market dysfunction, didn’t mention elephants in room: raging inflation & yen’s plunge.
Stocks Open Eyes, See Fed Pivot Hawkish; ECB Hike into Recession, Start QT; BoE Hike into Recession; SNB Hike, Sell Foreign Currency Assets by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2022 • 149 Comments ECB’s assets drop by €800 billion. Mexico hiked too today, way ahead of the Fed, keeps peso from falling against USD.
The Swiss National Bank Began Unloading its Biggest US Stock Holdings, incl. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta by Wolf Richter • Nov 11, 2022 • 154 Comments It still bought Tesla though, which is down by 52%. It took massive losses. And it’s got a bunch of Imploded Stocks.
