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Flow of funds analysis
By John Schroy, on March 26th, 2010 |

The Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts provide a general view of the financial situation of US corporations as of Q4 2009. The question that I would like to address is simply this: To what degree have US corporations been able to improve their financial liquidity since the Crash of 2008? Whereas behavior of US households indicates a shift to more conservative financial positions — with far higher levels of saving than prior to 2008 — corporations do not seem to have taken a similar course.
As goes January?
By John Schroy, on February 26th, 2010 |

Foreign investors and mutual fund shareholders were the primary buyers behind the Bear Market Recovery of 2009. Stock buybacks had disappeared, a significant modification in investor/issuer behavior that had been seen since 1982 and SEC Rule 10b-18.
The rally hit a peak in January 2010, reminding many of the saying, “As goes January, so goes the year”.
Bond market:
By John Schroy, on October 23rd, 2009 |

The flight to safer investments, which started with the Crash of 2008, has accelerated as the consequences of economic policies of the Obama administration have become evident.
There has been a net swing away from certain classes of private debt on the order of USD 1.5 trillion, between 2006 and Q2 2009. This money has gone into US Treasury securities, driving rates to almost zero.
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