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Select bullets from CNN Money…
- Stocks plunge after the Fed raises rates despite signs of economic softening
- Federal Reserve hikes rates for the fourth time in 2018
- Facebook could be in hot water with the FTC — again
- C. attorney general sues Facebook following Cambridge Analytica scandal
- General Mills is leaning into pet food
- Prosecutors weigh sex assault charges against Chinese billionaire
- Two multibillion-dollar healthcare businesses are merging
- FedEx is really worried about trade and the global economy
- SoftBank’s mobile business plunges after $24 billion IPO
- Jim Rogers, utility CEO who advocated for clean energy, dies
- Business voices ‘horror’ as Brexit countdown reaches 100 days
- In high-paying jobs, the wage gap can cost women millions
- Corporate America’s debt is too big for investors to ignore
- The bear market in oil keeps getting worse
- 5G is here. What that means and how you can get it
- Huawei: We’re still leading the world on 5G, despite political attacks
- Huawei’s 5G ambitions suffer another big setback
- Samsung will sell the first 5G smartphone in 2019
- Here’s why 5G is the future
- ELON MUSK’S BIG PLANS
- Elon Musk’s first tunnel is finished. Here’s what it’s like to ride in it
- See the tunnel in action
- Elon Musk: ‘I do not respect the SEC’
- SpaceX launched 64 satellites in record-breaking mission
- Elon Musk wants the world to embrace electric cars, even if Tesla goes bankrupt
Select Bullets from Fox Business…
- Despite Trump’s complaints, Fed hikes interest rates again
- Stock indexes rocked by Federal Reserve rate hike
- Senate announces short-term spending bill to avoid shutdown
- Dow, S&P 500 having worst month since 1931 as Grinch hits Wall St.
- Taxpayers can no longer claim these 4 deductions
- Chick-fil-A poised to jump Subway, Burger King in US fast food market
- Ocasio-Cortez needs a break? Gimme a break: Kennedy
- Want to work from home? These are the top 10 jobs
- Boeing sees Indian carriers ordering 2,300 planes worth $320M
- Elon Musk’s Boring Company unveils high-speed LA tunnel
- Why pickup trucks are America’s new family vehicle: Edmunds
- Star Wars creator George Lucas leads Forbes wealthiest celebrities of 2018
- Patriots QB Tom Brady could miss $5M in performance bonuses this season
- Facebook admits it gave tech companies access to users’ personal messages
- Sears takes $443M in charges from store closures
- Financial security: Parents making this ‘alarming’ mistake with their adult kids
- SALT deductions shouldn’t exist, Art Laffer says
- 3 financial documents everyone needs
- Why gold might be a safe Christmas gift this season
- These 20 states will raise minimum wages in 2019
- J&J loses its battle to overturn a $4.7B baby powder verdict
- Top 10 box office hits of 2018
- Fed rate hike likely won’t hurt home values
- FedEx CEO blames tariffs, ‘bad’ politics for lower profit outlook, shares tank
- Facebook sued for Cambridge Analytica scandal by District of Columbia
- Mortgage applications fell along with equities
- UPS expects more than 1M returns a day up to Christmas
- Top CEOs predict a recession will strike by the end of 2019
Today’s markets and stocks, at the closing bell…
Manufactured Housing Composite Value (MHCV)
Today’s Big Movers
For all the scores and highlights on tracked manufactured home connected stocks today, see the Bloomberg graphic, posted below.
Today’s MH Market Spotlight Report –
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, spoke during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.
Among the bullets:
- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the balance sheet reduction program will continue to proceed as planned. Recall that those purchases during the Obama era ‘propped up’ the markets in a rather artificial way, which was good for investors. “Unwinding” – selling off – those instruments are of course a depressor to the broader markets.
- The Fed currently has been allowing $50 billion a month to run off their balance sheet, which is largely a portfolio of bonds the central bank purchased to stimulate the economy during and after the 2008 financial crisis.
“I think that the runoff of the balance sheet has been smooth and has served its purpose,” he said during a news conference. “I don’t see us changing that.” The Obama administration artificially benefited from those purchases, and the Trump Administration is being artificially harmed by the reversal of that policy.
The process of ‘unwinding’ began in October 2017, which as noted had been acquired following three rounds of so-called “quantitative easing,” or QEs. That QE – a process in which the Fed bought Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities drove down interest rates, while propping up stocks.
So that Obama era policy kept rates near historic lows, an also provided a massive run-up in stocks, which yielded the longest bull market in history.
At its peak, the Fed’s balance sheet was at $4.5 trillion, said CNBC today. “The portfolio has since dropped to $4.14 trillion, and the total holdings of Treasurys and MBS has fallen below $4 trillion.”
Powell admitted “that the market can be very sensitive to news about the size of the balance sheet.” Of course, it’s called supply and demand. Powell is doing what short sellers sometimes do, although not many are calling it that way.
Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments in 2013 that “tapering” was ahead for bond purchases and QE famously ignited the “taper tantrum” that sent markets reeling.
“We’re alert to these issues, watching them carefully,” he said. “We don’t see the balance sheet runoffs as creating significant problems.”
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) approved today a 25 basis point hike in the funds rate as well as a 20 basis point increase in the interest on excess bank reserves, the latter being a benchmark to keep the funds rate in check.
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NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services.
NOTE: The chart below covers a number of stocks NOT reflected in the Yahoo MHCV, shown above.
NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.
LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI and LP all supply manufactured housing.
AMG, CG and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.
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