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by claudeganon 2073 days ago
The Fed has already been buying ETFs, which is about a hair’s breadth away from buying stocks. I don’t doubt that they’ll buy stocks to prop up investors if the current stimulus proves ineffective.
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Confirming story: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-has-been-buying-et...

The possibly essential caveat being that the ETF's being purchased are (as far as publicly known) all bond ETF's.

Barely. They are only buying corporate bonds and the sum total of "Includes non-marketable U.S. Treasury securities, supranationals, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, and commercial paper at face value" is 85.274 billion or a max of 1.2% of their asset sheet [0].

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm