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Fed Unveils Plan to Expand Balance Sheet but Insists It's Not Q.E.
October 11, 2019--The Federal Reserve said Friday that it would begin buying government-backed securities to expand its balance sheet, a move meant to keep an obscure but critical corner of financial markets functioning smoothly.
Now officials seem to be hoping the public will understand their motivation.
Unlike its postrecession bond-buying campaigns, often called quantitative easing, or Q.E., the new effort is not monetary stimulus, the Fed stressed. Instead, the central bank is trying to keep money markets in check after a messy episode in which interest rates for repurchase agreements-essentially short-term loans between banks and other financial institutions-spiked in September.
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Source: NY Times
IEA-Oil Market Report: Back to business as usual
October 11, 2019--Oil markets in September withstood a textbook case of a large-scale supply disruption as the attacks on Saudi Arabia temporarily affected about 5.7 mb/d of crude production capacity. On Monday 16 September, the first trading day following the attacks, after an initial spike to $71/bbl Brent prices fell back as it became clear that the damage, although serious, would not cause long-lasting disruption to markets.
Saudi Aramco's achievement in restoring operations and maintaining customer confidence was very impressive. This is reflected in the fact that as we publish this Report, the price of Brent is close to $58/bbl, actually $2/bbl below the pre-attack level.
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Source: International Energy Agency (IEA)
Fidelity joins the stampede to eliminate fees for online trading
October 10, 2019--Fidelity Investments said it is eliminating commissions for online trading of stocks, options and ETFs.
The announcement comes after its major competitors earlier this month announced similar moves.
In addition to the fee change, Fidelity is automatically directing customer cash to higher-yielding money markets.
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Source: cnbc.com
U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Fund Investors and APs Continue to Pad the Coffers of Bond Funds During the Week
October 10, 2019--For the sixth week in a row, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $12.1 billion for Lipper's fund-flows week ended October 9, 2019. Fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$14.7 billion), taxable fixed income funds (+$2.9 billion), and municipal bond funds (+$1.4 billion).
However, they were net redeemers of equity funds (-$6.9 billion).
Market Wrap-Up
For the fund-flows week ended October 9, 2019, market volatility was ever-present, but the broad-based U.S. indices managed to move into positive territory. During the week, investors were hand fed a Goldilocks nonfarm payrolls report that many pundits interpreted as showing continued labor market strength while also leaving some wiggle room for the Federal Reserve Board to apply another interest rate cut in the near term.
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Source: Refinitiv
The IRS Just Issued Its First Cryptocurrency Tax Guidance in 5 Years
October 9, 2019--The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings.
Industry members have been eagerly awaiting the update since May 2019, when IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said the agency was working on providing fresh guidance. The agency's 2014 guidance left many questions unanswered, and the crypto market has grown more complex in the years since.
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Source: coindesk.com
CBO-Monthly Budget Review for September 2019
October 8, 2019--The federal budget deficit was $984 billion in fiscal year 2019, CBO estimates. CBO's estimate is based on data from the Daily Treasury Statements issued by the Department of the Treasury; the department will report the actual deficit for fiscal year 2019 later this month.
Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit-at an estimated 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)-was the highest since 2012, and 2019 was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit increased as a percentage of GDP.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office
Agencies Finalize Changes to Simplify Volcker Rule
October 8, 2019--Five federal financial regulatory agencies on Tuesday announced that they finalized revisions to simplify compliance requirements relating to the "Volcker rule."
By statute, the Volcker rule generally prohibits banking entities from engaging in proprietary trading or investing in or sponsoring hedge funds or private equity funds.
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Source: cftc.gov
Barclays launches first-ever no-fee Exchange Traded Notes
October 7, 2019--Barclays Bank PLC ("Barclays") announced today the launch of the first-ever no-fee exchange traded notes (ETNs), the iPath(R) Gold ETNs (Ticker: GBUG) and the iPath(R) Silver ETNs (Ticker: SBUG). The ETNs are also the first-ever no-fee exchange traded products (ETPs) offering exposure to precious metals.
"Since Barclays brought the first ETNs to the US market in 2006, we have been consistently focused on providing investors with innovative and efficient products," said Ian Merrill, Managing Director and Head of US Equity Derivative Sales. "Today marks another exciting day in the evolution of Barclays' iPath platform with the introduction of the first-ever ETNs that have no investor fees, and the first-ever no-fee ETPs offering exposure to precious metals."
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Source: Barclays
Marijuana News Today: Marijuana ETFs Get Huge Boost From SEC Approval
October 7, 2019--The marijuana news today is bullish on the future of the pot sector as marijuana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were officially approved to be listed on U.S. stock exchanges following a ruling from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
While marijuana ETFs have existed for over a year now, they have, up to this point, been relegated to Canadian stock exchanges, due to U.S. law prohibiting marijuana at the federal level.
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Source: profitconfidential.com
Invesco job cuts rise to 1,300
October 7, 2019--Invesco has cut 1,300 jobs after absorbing smaller rival OppenheimerFunds earlier this year in America's biggest fund management deal in half a decade.
The terminations represent 12 per cent of the combined headcount of Invesco and OppenheimerFunds based on staffing levels at the end of 2018.
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Source: FT.com
