Det amerikanske aksjemarkedets veier er i alle fall uransaklige:
Om noen hadde sagt i september 2019 at slutten av mai 2020 ville S&P 500 - indeksen være høyere enn nå til tross for at USA vil ha over 20 millioner arbeidsledige, det er tilnærmet unntakstilstand mange steder, en galopprende epidemi og en eskalerende handels- og politisk konflikt med Kina så ville alle trodd du var sprøyte gal, men det er altså hva som har skjedd. Det ligger nå ca 12% under forrige topp og de siste 10-15% av den oppgangen i fjor høst ble omtalt som ren eufori basert på ca ingen ting underliggende av de som kommenterer slikt.
mulig denne kunne være relevant også (andre er stødigere enn meg i dette):
Key Takeaways
- The Federal Reserve announced on March 23 that it would start direct purchases of corporate debt—an unprecedented rescue of corporate America.
- Since then, the stock market has risen over 30 percent, corporate bond funds have recovered, and companies have saved tens of billions in borrowing costs.
- Thanks to this massive government subsidy, large companies like Boeing and Carnival Cruises were able to avoid taking money directly—and sidestep requirements to keep employees on—by instead issuing bonds.
- The Intercept and The American Prospect have identified 49 companies that issued corporate debt since March 23, adding up to hundreds of billions they otherwise couldn’t have secured so cheaply—providing a safety net to the investor class and making a mockery of the alleged virtues of free-market capitalism.
- This sets the stage for companies with functionally no revenue path in the near future to take on mounds of additional debt—and could set the stage for a series of defaults.
Just announcing $4.5 trillion in future spending to support securities markets was enough to keep owners of capital protected from the downsides of the coronavirus.
prospect.org
[…]
What would become known as the CARES Act
became law on March 27, and the investor class has never looked back. While Americans struggle to
file unemployment claims and
extract stimulus checks from their banks, while small businesses
face extinction amid a meager and under-baked federal grant program, the Fed has, at least temporarily, propped up every equity and credit market in America. And in a testament to its strength, it did so without spending a single cent.
The mere announcement of future spending heartened investors, who have relied on Fed support since the last financial crisis. This explains the shocking dissonance between collapsing economic conditions and the relative comfort on Wall Street. Between March 23 and April 30, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed nearly 6,000 points, a jump of nearly 31 percent, creating over $7 trillion in capital wealth. The April gains were the
biggest in one month since 1987.
The same month, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs.
[…]
Congress made the choice to empower the Fed, rather than figure out how to adequately support the rest of the economy and its citizens. And it gave the central bank wide discretion over the process, absolving members of Congress from blame but introducing the Fed’s bias toward large corporations and banks into who gets saved and who doesn’t.
In short, while activists nitpicked about which companies got
small business grants worth $10 million, the real bailout, with trillions on the line rather than millions, was happening, quietly, at the Fed.