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Liquidity Fears Stalk the $4 Trillion ETF Market. Here’s One Fix.

By Ksenia Galouchko
August 28, 2019, Bloomberg

Market mayhem this month has re-ignited fears about how the $4 trillion U.S. ETF industry will react in a liquidity crunch. Europe may …

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Fragile U.S. Rates Market Braces for Volatility From Everywhere

By Vivien Lou Chen
August 13, 2019, Bloomberg

The fragility of the U.S. bond market was fully exposed Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff delay pushed rates higher and …

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China Plans Biggest Futures Market Overhaul Since 2015 Clampdown

August 8, 2019, Bloomberg

China is mulling the biggest changes to its futures market since 2015, an overhaul that would give global investors unprecedented access, make it easier to execute …

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Automated selling has exacerbated U.S. market swings, say analysts

By Richard Henderson
August 8, 2019, Financial Times

Computer-driven investment strategies that automatically sell when market turbulence erupts have exacerbated this week’s swings, offloading up to tens of billions of …

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Why a bond market ‘tantrum’ could cause a brief spike in yields

By William Watts
August 8, 2019, MarketWatch

A global fixed-income rally that’s seen the stock of negative-yielding debt top $15 trillion probably won’t lead to a bond-market “implosion,” but the …

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Jane Street Defends ETFs From Claims They Cause Market Stress

By Rachel Evans
July 24, 2019, Bloomberg

Investors looking for potential causes of volatility in the debt markets have nothing to fear from exchange traded funds, according to one of …

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Are investors about to throw a ‘bond proxy’ tantrum?

By Andrea Riquier
July 24, 2019, MarketWatch

Over the past several months, investors have poured funds into government bonds rather than riskier assets like stocks. Now one research firm thinks …

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Fed repo facility could prevent unusual rate spikes

By Andrew Neil
July 12, 2019, Global Investor Group

Federal Reserve officials debated the merits of a repo facility during a recent board meeting.

Minutes published on July 10 show …

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PGIM CEO Hunt Sees a ‘Volatile Summer’ Ahead

David Hunt, president and chief executive officer at PGIM, discusses the difficulties markets face in pricing political risk, the U.S. economy, expectations for rates to fall, and looking for opportunities …

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Fed signaling greater flexibility, says expert

CNBC’s “Closing Bell” team is joined by Julia Coronado, founder of Macropolicy Perspectives, and Steve Grasso of Stuart Frankel, to discuss how markets are trading and what investors should watch …