BofA: The Debt Ceiling and the Economy - We think the debt ceiling battle does a lot more harm than good. What can we say with confidence? While it is very hard to quantify the impact of brinkmanship or a short-term violation of the ceiling, a three-month impasse would likely trigger a major recession, with lasting damage. The contraction in spending alone would cause a recession and clearly the market and confidence effects would be large. It is also likely that the impact is non-linear: the longer the impasse lasts the more likely that any eventual budget deal will not fully reverse the damage. https://business.bofa.com/en-us/content/...-outlook-and-forecast.html
Wirtschaftliche Strafmaßnahmen gegen Länder treffen dort insbesondere arme Menschen, so das Fazit von Ifo-Experten. Auch die Lebenserwartung sinkt. Ob die Erkenntnisse auf Russland übertragbar sind, ist fraglich.
Pricing in the damage: Recession is foretold as central banks try to bring inflation back down to policy targets. It’s the opposite of past recessions: Rate cuts are not on the way to help support risk assets, in our view. That’s why the old playbook of simply “buying the dip” doesn’t apply in this regime of sharper trade-offs and greater macro volatility. The new playbook calls for a continuous reassessment of how much of the economic damage being generated by central banks is in the price. The ultimate economic damage depends on how far central banks go to get inflation down. The Federal Reserve signaled a pause after hiking rates in May. But it also reiterated that persistent inflation means no rate cuts this year. We see the European Central Bank going full steam ahead with rate hikes to get inflation to target – regardless of the damage that entails. https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/...ategic-question.pdf
US SEC Announces Significant Amendments to Form PF
The new reporting requirements are important because the SEC and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) use data from Form PF to facilitate assessments of US systemic risk presented by the private fund industry. The new information required to be reported on Form PF is intended to enhance the SEC's and FSOC's ability to monitor systemic risk and could potentially impact FSOC's process for designation of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
On 24 May 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a joint report on margin dynamics in centrally cleared commodities markets https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d550.pdf