When the Fed reduces its balance sheet, essentially they let the bonds mature. They don't use that money to go out and buy new bonds. That's made this a little more precarious because the Fed normally think about assets and liabilities on a balance sheet. Money market funds really love it. But people are warning, money market funds might like keeping their cash in bank reserves.
Bloomberg News Chief Correspondent for Global Macro Markets Liz McCormick explains Fed Chair Jerome Powell's admission that the central bank was blindsided by the impact of shrinking its balance sheet four years ago. Roberta Goss, Head of the Bank Loan and CLO Platform at Pretium, discusses the leveraged loan environment. Mark Mahaney, Head of Internet Research at Evercore ISI and Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh talk about Meta’s Threads app topping 100 million users. And we Drive to the Close with Abhay Deshpande, Founder and CIO at Centerstone.
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