[HN Gopher] $1T flowed into stocks in 2021, greater than last 20...
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$1T flowed into stocks in 2021, greater than last 20 years combined
Author : xqcgrek2
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-09-11 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| endisneigh wrote:
| How does this end?
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| In disappointment.
| pphysch wrote:
| I wonder how much is retail vs institutional investors
| crenwick wrote:
| > Stragetists at JPMorgan also recently commented on the rush
| into stocks, noting that the flows have been driven by retail
| investors.
| amin wrote:
| Central banks have been buying up treasury bonds, thereby
| lowering the yield. They are basically saying
|
| "Hey rich people with cash, if you want to get a return on your
| money, you have to stop investing in risk-free government bonds,
| and start investing in businesses in the real economy"
|
| The Fed has basically 'pushed' investors out of bonds, and into
| equities and real estate. This partly explains the absurdly higgh
| gains we saw recently in those asset classes. But now that
| inflation is getting out of hand, the Fed might reverse someday
| it to slow down the economy and keep inflation low.
| guilhas wrote:
| Inflation bubbles over the horizon
|
| Almost a fifth of ALL US dollars were created this year
| https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were...
| wobblyasp wrote:
| > Many economists are skeptical. Andrew Hunter, senior US
| economist at Capital Economics, said the relationship between
| the money supply and inflation has "in reality" been "pretty
| weak or arguably non-existent for a few decades now".
|
| > "We had these same concerns back in 2008/9, that it was going
| to trigger a surge in inflation. Clearly that didn't happen."
| [deleted]
| imtringued wrote:
| Can you buy stocks with central bank reserves? I get that QE
| drives yields down on treasury bonds and this makes them less
| attractive but are you sure this isn't about regular people
| selling their bonds and getting stocks instead?
| ratsmack wrote:
| I personally cashed in >$1m in CD's and bought stocks because
| of my fear of being left behind because of inflation. Many of
| my CD's were callable, so I really had no choice.
| nomoreplease wrote:
| Why did you have 1M in CDs in the first place?
| ratsmack wrote:
| I already had a bunch in stocks, so having a portion of
| my money in CD's made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
| dragonwriter wrote:
| > Can you buy stocks with central bank reserves?
|
| That kind of depends on who you are. If you are a central
| bank, and particularly one of the central banks that doesn't,
| by policy, _not_ buy that class of securities, yes, you can
| (e.g., the Bank of Japan does.) If you are not a central
| bank, you can 't buy anything with central bank reserves, and
| if you are, say, the Fed, you could, but you've made a policy
| choice not to.
| [deleted]
| rsj_hn wrote:
| stock market is an exchange, so for every dollar flowing "into"
| stocks, there is a dollar flowing out. For every buyer, there is
| a seller.
|
| In which case, what possible usefullness can one obtain from
| counting buyers but ignoring sellers?
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