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NDR : Risk Assets Love Liquidity
"Liquidity is the lifeblood of the financial markets... Risk assets love liquidity. Continued draining of liquidity presents a risk for equities and credit," Ned Davis Research chief global macro strategist Joseph Kalish said.
The Fed has been reducing its balance sheet by about $80 billion per month, and stocks tend to perform well when the exact opposite happens, according to NDR.
"Our analysis shows that when the 4-week change of reserves has increased by more than $62 billion, stock returns have exploded at a 31% annual rate since March 2009 when the Fed began ramping up QE and shifted to an ample reserves regime," Kalish explained.
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