Fidelity Investments has sold all of its short-term T-bills and is buying longer-term T-bonds. Pimco, the largest bond fund, is selling its bonds and buying T-bills.
Fidelity thinks there could be a short-term crisis in the federal government. Bill Gross does not think so. He manages Pimco. He thinks the odds are against a default. Fidelity also thinks the government will not default, but it took prudent measures. So far, Fidelity has been right. T-bill rates have risen in the last month from 0.01% to o.05%. It was 0.1% as recently as September 20. It was at 0.02% as recently as October 1.
Fidelity manages $430 billion in money market mutual funds. That is a lot of money.
T-Bond rates have not risen. So, Fidelity locked in higher rates, which is to Fidelity’s advantage.
The heaviest selling was in one-months T-bills. The market was at 0.26% on October 9, the highest since 2008. It was zero on September 19.
Overnight rates in the so-called repo market used by banks to fund lending have gone from 0.04% on October 1 to 0.13% today.
The markets for short-term debt are indicating a slight concern regarding a default. But given the very low rates in 90-day T-bills, even at 0.05%, this fear is not great. Fidelity is hedging its portfolio by moving completely out of T-bills, but the firm does not think anything major is looming. It just wanted to avoid any short-term problems. It has.
I do not think a default is likely. Neither do most investors. But they have indicated that the deadlock in Washington is going to last through the month and maybe into November.
6 in one hand, half dozen in the other. It's not going to matter, no matter what position you take, because they're all valued in US Dollars.
The dollar is worthless. Not just worth less, but worthless.
Not worthless quite yet. You can still go into a grocery store and load up your truck paying with dollars. Once you see pictures of pallets of paper dollars rotting in the fields, then you'll know it's worthless.
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