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Federal Reserve Alert! Financial Stability Report for assessing the resilience of the U.S. financial system:

"The share of newly issued loans to large corporations with debt multiples greater than 5 remained at a historically high level in 2022, indicating stable tolerance for additional leverage." https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/financial-stability-report-20230508.pdf The framework focuses primarily on assessing vulnerabilities, with an emphasis on

April 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices: Regarding loans to businesses tighter standards and weaker demand for commercial and industrial loans, weaker demand for all commercial real estate (CRE) loan categories.

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/sloos/sloos-202304.htm The April 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices The April 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) addressed changes in the standards and terms on, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and

Wait, so a completely manufactured political crisis (about agreeing to pay for what has already been spent) via a charade played 79 times since 1960 is going to "make for potentially a lot of weird things to happen in financial markets"?

Haven't they been saying for WEEEKS now strong & resilient? Reddit Post

Federal Reserve Alert! Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee at 1:44 says: "I am certainly getting vibes… that a credit crunch or credit squeeze is beginning"

Adds it will be some time before next interest rate decision, with jobs and credit the determining factor for raising rates or not. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/0-25-rate-hike-may-153258946.html Reddit Post

Inflation Alert! Fed releases Inflation Expectations Fall at Short-Term Horizon but Rise Slightly at Longer Horizons. One-year (4.4%), 3year (2.9%), and 5-year (2.6%) inflation expectations all higher than the Fed's target of 2%.

Inflation appears to be becoming anchored in consumers expectations. Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce#/hhincexp-1 The main findings from the April 2023 Survey are: Inflation * Median inflation expectations declined by 0.3 percentage point at the one-year-ahead horizon to 4.4%, but increased by 0.1 percentage point

Whistleblower Alert! SEC Issues Largest-Ever Whistleblower Award nearly $279 million, to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-89 The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the largest-ever award, nearly $279 million, to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions. This is the highest award in the SEC’s whistleblower program’s history,

SEC Alert! Special filing with Federal Register: SEC submits notice for the 20th CLOSED door meeting this year via the Sunshine Act for 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2023.

Resolution of litigation claims and Other matters relating to examinations and enforcement proceedings to be considered. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-09852.pdf CLOSED door meetings 2023: Meeting NumberDate205/11195/4184/27174/20164/13154/6143/30133/23123/16113/9103/292/2382/1672/962/251/2641/1931/1221/911/5 Seems to