"Of the $10 billion on offer, the $1 billion five-year tranche was issued at a coupon of 0.45%, the lowest coupon seen on a U.S. corporate bond at that maturity, according to Refinitiv data, which goes back to 1980."
"The SMCCF, initially funded with $25 billion of equity from Treasury, will leverage its equity ten times when acquiring corporate bonds from investment grade issuers and ETFs whose primary investment objective is exposure to investment grade corporate bonds. It will leverage its equity seven times when acquiring corporate bonds from issuers rated at below investment grade, and from three to seven times when acquiring other eligible assets, depending on risk."
So if you're a large corporation capable of selling bonds you can get a loan for far less than even the extreme low end inflation predictions. The big tech companies have the ability to take advantage of the current climate.
One way to juice the economy is just print more money and give it to everyone. Everyone's richer, yay! Except you haven't increased production or necessarily consumption, so prices will just equalize to the new money supply and you get consumer price inflation.
For QE, we got smarter, and just gave all of the money to the bankers, because that's what all the economic experts who work at banks said to do. So all of the inflation happened in assets held by banks and rich people instead -- tradeable securities and real estate in coastal areas.
Got it. I suppose this explains why there wasn’t an increase in the price of consumer goods following the billions of COVID relief pumped into the economy. Correct?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-bonds/google-own...
"Of the $10 billion on offer, the $1 billion five-year tranche was issued at a coupon of 0.45%, the lowest coupon seen on a U.S. corporate bond at that maturity, according to Refinitiv data, which goes back to 1980."
I can give similar links for Apple: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-joins-tech-borrowing-bo...
The Coronavirus CARES act enables the Federal Reserve to buy Corporate Bonds. This is one of the factors driving down the bond rates: https://www.proskauer.com/alert/corporate-credit-facilities-...
"The SMCCF, initially funded with $25 billion of equity from Treasury, will leverage its equity ten times when acquiring corporate bonds from investment grade issuers and ETFs whose primary investment objective is exposure to investment grade corporate bonds. It will leverage its equity seven times when acquiring corporate bonds from issuers rated at below investment grade, and from three to seven times when acquiring other eligible assets, depending on risk."
So if you're a large corporation capable of selling bonds you can get a loan for far less than even the extreme low end inflation predictions. The big tech companies have the ability to take advantage of the current climate.