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Current Price
385.06
Bid
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Volume
3,090,145
382.91 Day's Range 385.59
323.21 52 Week Range 398.82
Market Cap
Previous Close
382.37
Open
383.69
Last Trade
36214
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385.02
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Financial Volume
$ 1,188,421,066
VWAP
384.5842
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3,665,746
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About SPDR DJ Industrial Average ETF Trust

Nuveen Dow 30 Dynamic Overwrite Fund is a closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek attractive total return with less volatility than the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nuveen Dow 30 Dynamic Overwrite Fund is a closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek attractive total return with less volatility than the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Sector
Finance Services
Industry
Finance Services
Website
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Founded
1970
SPDR DJ Industrial Average ETF Trust is listed in the Finance Services sector of the American Stock Exchange with ticker DIA. The last closing price for SPDR DJ Industrial Avera... was $382.37. Over the last year, SPDR DJ Industrial Avera... shares have traded in a share price range of $ 323.21 to $ 398.82.

SPDR DJ Industrial Avera... currently has 0 shares outstanding.

DIA Latest News

PeriodChangeChange %OpenHighLowAvg. Daily VolVWAP
15.321.40095855059379.74385.59376.144524210379.04463128SP
4-8.62-2.18959561065393.68398.56376.144211649385.68610428SP
122.240.585131393344382.82398.82376.143665746387.35824195SP
2655.1616.720218248329.9398.82323.213755248372.94320011SP
5247.1513.9534195496337.91398.82323.213495622358.19621378SP
15647.3114.0074019245337.75398.82286.624145550343.33535242SP
260119.609945.0592785612265.4501398.82181.194071031314.01756816SP

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DIA Discussion

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BottomBounce BottomBounce 4 months ago
Silver Skyrockets to over $23+ per oz today on inflation news. $DIA $SLV $SIL $SIVR $DBS
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 4 months ago
US Debt Clock
https://www.usdebtclock.org $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 5 months ago
Gold prices to see a sustained push above $2,100 in 2024 - TD Securities
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 6 months ago
Gold remains an attractive long-term asset as short-term pessimism remains elevated - NDR's Tim Hayes
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 6 months ago
Gold sees more safe-haven buying amid geopolitical crisis $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 6 months ago
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 6 months ago
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 8 months ago
U.S. dollar index lower $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 10 months ago
$DIA $DJIA The key outside markets today see the U.S. dollar index weaker
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 10 months ago
$DIA $DJIA The key outside markets today see the U.S. dollar index weaker
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Actualfactual Actualfactual 2 years ago
Ripped to 304 in 2 days. No complaints there on calls
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Actualfactual Actualfactual 2 years ago
Yessir. That sleepy joe is quite insightful..
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 2 years ago
$DIA President Joe Biden says the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
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Actualfactual Actualfactual 2 years ago
Dia under 290. Due for a bounce here..
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Canna_Business Canna_Business 2 years ago
Bearish: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62405037
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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 2 years ago
DOW CLOSED DOWN 981.3 POINTS TODAY!!!!!

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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 2 years ago
JANUARY, 2022 DOW HIGH 36,952.65 .... MARCH 10, 2022 32,944.19

THE DOW HAS ALREADY LOST 4,008.96 POINTS FROM ITS HIGH. THOSE SMART ENOUGH TO HAVE GONE SHORT ARE CLEANING UP WHILE BAGHOLDERS SQUIRM!!!!!!!


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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 2 years ago
DOW WILL GO SUB 30K, EASY MONEY PLAYING THE SHORT SIDE!!!!!

DOW 30 HAS ALREADY LOST 2,873 POINTS FROM THE JANUARY HIGH.

STUPID RETARDS REMOVED EXXON FROM THE INDEX AND REPLACED IT WITH FLAKEY CRM!!!

CRM WAS $331..... CLOSED FRIDAY AT $196!!!!!


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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 2 years ago
DIA IS AN EXCELLENT LONG TERM SHORT UP HERE NEAR ALL TIME HIGHS!!!!

IT WILL CRASH BIG TIME!!!!!!

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NYBob NYBob 2 years ago
Dollar has Stage 4 Cancer โ€“ Rob Kirby
By Greg Hunter On December 7, 2021 In Market Analysis No Comments


https://usawatchdog.com/dollar-has-stage-4-cancer-rob-kirby/


Bitcoin CRASH tied to Evergrande DEFAULT
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Davos Is Making The Central Bank Case For Gold
BY TYLER DURDEN - MONDAY, DEC 06, 2021 - 06:30 AM
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n
Guns blog,

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/davos-making-central-bank-case-gold


(TPRFF) GCM Mining Corp.; DOLLAR DEMISE: THE END OF THE DOLLAR IS JUST ONE ANNOUNCEMENT AWAY
WATCH


https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFBR0FGbAzi2/

https://investorshub.advfn.com/Gcm-Mining-Corp-30138


TM Great Buy Red Cloud raises target to C$18 (from C$13.25) for
GCM (prev. name; Gran Colombia Gold Corp.


https://cdn-ceo-ca.s3.amazonaws.com/1gqhn3n-20211201-GCM-Update-2.pdf





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Summary

Gran Colombia Gold changed its name to GCM Mining.
The updated Toroparu PEA confirms the world-class potential of the
project.
Toroparu should reach an average annual production rate of 225,000 toz
gold, at an AISC of $916/toz, over the 24-year mine life.

At a gold price of $1,500/toz, the after-tax NPV(5%) equals $794 million.

GCM Mining remains one of the most undervalued gold miners.

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A complete summary of the mineralized intersections from the 2021 drill program can be found on the Company's website at www.arisgold.com.

About the Juby Project

The Juby project is an advanced exploration stage project located 15 km west of the town of Gowganda in Ontario, Canada, 150 km by road south-southeast of Timmins and 115 km by road southwest of Kirkland Lake. Site access and infrastructure is excellent with a major highway, local roads, and logging roads providing easy access to site, a power transmission line passing through the property, and abundant water.

The property is located in the Shining Tree area of the southern Abitibi greenstone belt, within 70 km of IAMGOLD's Côté Gold project and Alamos Gold's Young-Davidson mine. The leases extend for 11 km east-west and 9.5 km north-south, covering an area of 5,288 hectares, following the Tyrrell Shear Zone, which hosts all of the known deposits at the project, including the Juby Main Zone (JMZ), Golden Lake Zone (GLZ), Big Dome Zone (BDZ), and Hydro-Creek LaCarte Zone (HCLZ). The JMZ and GLZ deposits are hosted within moderate to steeply dipping, strongly altered and mineralized Porcupine sedimentary rocks, and the BDZ and HCLZ deposits are hosted in moderate to steeply dipping sheared and folded mafic to ultramafic volcanic rocks, sedimentary rocks, and porphyritic dykes of the Kidd-Munro assemblage.

The project currently has 405 drillholes for a total of 116,570 metres in the drilling database. The mineral resources for the Juby Project, effective July 14, 2020, are given in the table below.

Juby Project Mineral Resources (effective July 14, 2020)

Area

Category

Tonnes (Mt)

Grade (g/t Au)

Contained gold (oz)

Juby Main Zone and Golden
Lake Zone

Indicated

20.2

1.12

728,000

Inferred

41.5

0.99

1,319,000

Hydro Creek-LaCarte Zone
and Big Dome Zone

Indicated

1.1

1.31

45,000

Inferred

5.6

0.93

169,000

Total

Indicated

21.3

1.13

773,000

Inferred

47.1

0.98

1,488,000

Notes:

(1)

Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and have no demonstrated economic viability.

(2)

The mineral resource estimate was prepared by Allan Armitage, Ph.D., P.Geo. of SGS Geological Services, and Joe Campbell, B.Sc., P.Geo., Alan Sexton, M.Sc., P.Geo., and Duncan Studd, M.Sc. P.Geo. of GeoVector Management Inc, who are Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Armitage, Campbell, Sexton, and Studd have reviewed and verified the drilling, sampling, assaying, and QAQC protocols and results, and are of the opinion that the sample recovery, preparation, analyses, and security protocols used for the mineral resource estimate are reliable for that purpose.

(3)

Totals may not add up due to rounding.

(4)

Mineral resources are reported above an optimized pit shell with a cut-off grade of 0.4 g/t gold, based on a metal price of USD$1,450 per ounce of gold, and a metallurgical recovery of 90%.

(5)

There are no known legal, political, environmental, or other risks that could materially affect the potential development of the mineral resources.

Qualified Persons and Technical Information

Mineral resources are as defined by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum's 2014 Definition Standards for Mineral Resources & Mineral Reserves. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and have no demonstrated economic viability. There are no mineral reserves estimated at the property at this time. There are no known legal, political, environmental, or other risks that could materially affect the potential development of the mineral resources.

The mineral resource and geological information included in this news release is based on information included in the technical report entitled "Technical Report on the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Juby Gold Project" dated October 5, 2020 with an effective date of July 14, 2020, and is available on the Company's website at www.arisgold.com and under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com. The technical report was prepared by Allan Armitage, Ph.D., P.Geo. of SGS Geological Services, and Joe Campbell, B.Sc., P.Geo., Alan Sexton, M.Sc., P.Geo., and Duncan Studd, M.Sc. P.Geo. of GeoVector Management Inc, each of whom are independent of the Company within the meaning of NI 43-101 and are Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Messrs. Armitage, Campbell, Sexton, and Studd have reviewed and verified the drilling, sampling, assaying, and QAQC protocols and results, and are of the opinion that the sample recovery, preparation, analyses, and security protocols used for the mineral resource estimate are reliable for that purpose.

All holes drilled during 2021 were NQ diameter diamond holes completed by RJLL Drilling of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. GeoVector provided geological and geotechnical logging services, and sample preparation and analyses were completed by ALS Global of Sudbury, Ontario. Drill core samples were cut in half with a diamond saw and one half of the core was placed in a sample bag with a sample tag. GeoVector inserted certified standard and blank samples every tenth sample for quality assurance / quality control (QAQC) purposes. No issues were noted in the QAQC results. The sample bags were zip tied shut and placed with other sample bags in larger bags and zip tied shut. The large bags were placed on a pallet and trucked to Manitoulin Transport of New Liskeard, Ontario, and from there to ALS Global of Sudbury, Ontario. At the laboratory the sample was crushed to 70% passing 2 mm and a 250 gram subsample was taken using a riffle splitter. The subsample was pulverized to 85% passing 75 microns. A 30 gram pulverized sub-sample was assayed for gold by fire assay with atomic absorption spectroscopy. Any sample with an assay greater than 10 g/t Au was re-assayed by fire assay with gravimetric finish on a 30 gram sample.

Pamela De Mark, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration of Aris Gold is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and has reviewed and verified the drilling, sampling, assaying, and QAQC protocols and results, and is of the opinion that the drilling, sampling, sample recovery, preparation, analyses, and security protocols for the drilling program are reliable. Ms. De Mark has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.

About Aris Gold

Aris Gold is a Canadian mining company listed on the TSX under the symbol ARIS and on the OTCQX under the symbol ALLXF. The Company is led by an executive team with a demonstrated track record of creating value through building globally relevant gold mining companies. Aris Gold operates the Marmato mine in Colombia, where a modernization and expansion program is under way, and the Juby project, an advanced exploration stage gold project in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Ontario, Canada. Aris Gold plans to pursue acquisition and other growth opportunities to unlock value creation from scale and diversification.

Additional information on Aris Gold can be found at www.arisgold.com and www.sedar.com.

Forward-looking Information


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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 2 years ago
EXACTLY..... INTEREST RATES WILL GO UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE PARTY IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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BottomBounce BottomBounce 2 years ago
Yellen: Federal Reserve won't allow inflation to reach 1970s levels
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/yellen-federal-reserve-wont-allow-inflation-1970s-levels $DIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 3 years ago
$DIA Trailing Total Returns
Market Return %
(as of 08/31/2021) NAV Return %
(as of 08/31/2021) Market Return %
(as of 06/30/2021) NAV Return %
(as of 06/30/2021)
1-Month +1.45% +1.49% -0.05% +0.01%
3-Month +2.79% +2.84% +4.88% +2.84%
6-Month +15.32% +15.30% +13.74% +13.69%
Year-to-date +16.97% +16.90% +13.74% +13.69%
1-Year +26.70% +26.56% +36.22% +36.10%
3-Year +13.18% +13.18% +14.83% +14.86%
5-Year +16.42% +16.42% +16.50% +16.50%
10-Year +14.34% +14.34% +13.33% +13.32%
Since Inception +8.89% +8.98% +8.83% +8.91%
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 3 years ago
These 3 Signals From The FED Are Bullish for Gold - Adrian Day
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 3 years ago
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Street Smart Street Smart 3 years ago
loaded big here. ready to watch the ride up a few percent and collect a nice divi
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Street Smart Street Smart 3 years ago
Should be x dividend in a few days plus a great time to be in the DOW. I think it will have a good stretch

Buying DIA here
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Talc Moan Talc Moan 3 years ago
Yep as did almost 400,000 the last 2 days insane
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 3 years ago
Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/politics/donald-trump-jr-coronavirus/index.html $DIA
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Talc Moan Talc Moan 3 years ago
DIA higher now then pre Covid levels is crazy
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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 3 years ago
Only a hand full of DOW 30 components were responsible for most of the 1,300 point ramp up to 29,933.83 at the opening. Total fraud.
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
keeps on moving along. again what a sweet dividend too
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
This is as good as it gets. nice dividend and a real good mimic of $indu
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
looking good. those divis are sweet
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GreedyAgorist GreedyAgorist 4 years ago
Have not traded diamond puts in a while. Been playing volatility directly, usually by selling spikes, but today just to be different, after getting my short and long term puts set, I bought a call, expiring same day. Sold it quickly when it got in the money for enough to cover my put premiums. Good thing as it dropped below the strike price. Meanwhile I had a put at that same strike, also expiring before sundown. Had to sell that for a bare minimum profit in the last minute.

Normally being in the money is a good thing, but I was not interested in selling 100 shares. Sometimes the market is down on Mondays.
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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 4 years ago
I sold my DIA Puts that I picked before the close yesterday and scalped some Calls on the bounce.

Done for the week now. I will look to re-enter Puts next week.

This volatility is excellent!
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 4 years ago
Heavy Buying pressure coming in $DIA $DJIA
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BottomBounce BottomBounce 4 years ago
$DIA Breaking out from bottom channel
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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 4 years ago
Bought 292 DIA Puts (DOW 29,184)
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Agoura Guy Agoura Guy 4 years ago
XOM out CRM (PE 90) in, what a joke!
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get_it_back get_it_back 4 years ago
Which DJ stock they(?) will run in the DJ when APPL splits? Unless of course they run a $125 stock by $25 per day to make it a $4T company in a week.
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
this has been setting up for a breakout. chilled a while after its upward movement during golden cross. Could be time for it to make a big push ahead. been holding this one. Much more to come
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
was not hard to call the DOW is showing its power as it does a golden cross
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
DIA in a golden Cross now
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
I expect the DOW to heat up very soon
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Street Smart Street Smart 4 years ago
Being very bullish I like DIA as a way to invest in the market. Some of that inflo was me
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DiscoverGold DiscoverGold 4 years ago
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) - Daily Chart
By: finviz | July 22, 2020



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DiscoverGold DiscoverGold 4 years ago
DIA, GS, BA, JNJ: Large Inflows Detected at ETF
By: Nasdaq | July 22, 2020

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDRโ€” Dow Jonesโ€” Industrial Average ETF Trust (Symbol: DIA) where we have detected an approximate $550.1 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.5% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 82,790,000 to 84,840,000). Among the largest underlying components of DIA, in trading today Goldman Sachs Group Inc (the (Symbol: GS) is off about 1.8%, Boeing Co. (Symbol: BA) is down about 0.1%, and Johnson & Johnson (Symbol: JNJ) is lower by about 0.9%. For a complete list of holdings, visit the DIA Holdings page » The chart below shows the one year price performance of DIA, versus its 200 day moving average:



Looking at the chart above, DIA's low point in its 52 week range is $182.10 per share, with $295.87 as the 52 week high point โ€” that compares with a last trade of $268.66. Comparing the most recent share price to the 200 day moving average can also be a useful technical analysis technique -- learn more about the 200 day moving average ».

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) trade just like stocks, but instead of ''shares'' investors are actually buying and selling ''units''. These ''units'' can be traded back and forth just like stocks, but can also be created or destroyed to accommodate investor demand. Each week we monitor the week-over-week change in shares outstanding data, to keep a lookout for those ETFs experiencing notable inflows (many new units created) or outflows (many old units destroyed). Creation of new units will mean the underlying holdings of the ETF need to be purchased, while destruction of units involves selling underlying holdings, so large flows can also impact the individual components held within ETFs.

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tw0122 tw0122 4 years ago
Hereโ€™s the skinny on how the Fed propped up both the Dow and the junk bond market with its well-timed announcements on March 23 and April 9.

From the close on March 4 to the close on March 23, the junk bond exchange traded fund (ETF) which goes by the fancy title of โ€œiShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF,โ€ or symbol HYG, lost 21 percent of its value. But that weakness in the junk bond market did even worse damage to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Over those same trading days, the Dow lost 8,498.93 points or a stunning 31 percent of its value in just 14 trading sessions. That had apocalyptic overtones for what lie ahead for the balance of the year.

There are two key reasons for the correlations between the junk bond market and the Dow. The first is that two of the Wall Street banks that were a regular presence in the Wall Street syndicate that underwrote these junk bond offerings are components of the Dowโ€™s 30 stocks. Those two banks are Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. The second key reason is that if Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are tanking, they will inevitably bring down the share price of every other major Wall Street bank because of their heavy interconnections as derivative counterparties to each other. (If all of those banks enter a serious selloff, the Fed could be looking at another 2008 financial crash after assuring Americans for years that these banks are โ€œwell capitalized.โ€)

In short, thanks to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, which allowed Wall Street casinos to merge with the largest federally-insured, deposit-taking banks in the country, we now have a central bank (the Fed) that believes its job is to throw money at any market that pulls down the Dow. Because damage to the Dow might damage consumer confidence which might damage the wealth effect which might damage consumer spending which might damage the next GDP report which might damage the vision of American exceptionalism. In other words, weโ€™re all just Labradoodles now in fealty to Wall Street.

Two simple solutions to the Fedโ€™s conundrum would be to restore the Glass-Steagall Act and restore corporate pension plans which offer a guaranteed (defined benefit) at retirement, thus cutting the cord between consumer spending/consumer confidence and the health of the workerโ€™s 401(K) plan as measured by the health of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Fedโ€™s balance sheet as of last Wednesday had ballooned to $6.6 trillion as it throws money in all directions to snuff out fires on Wall Street. If you add that to the federal governmentโ€™s outstanding debt of $24.7 trillion, thatโ€™s $31.3 trillion of debt that weโ€™re leaving as our legacy to the next generation.

To show just how pressured the Fed is to prop up any market that tanks, letโ€™s look at the timeline that goes with the chart above. On March 23, the Fed announced that it was creating two facilities to buy up investment grade corporate bonds along with other programs. The corporate bond facilities were called the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF). In that announcement, the Fed said that the two facilities would only be buying investment grade bonds. That was good enough news for the HYG ETF which rallied through March 30.

But then HYGโ€™s share price began to sag again along with the rest of the junk bond market. So on April 9, in a long-winded press release purporting to be taking actions to help everyday Americans, the Fed changed its Terms Sheets for both the PMCCF and the SMCCF and announced that the Fed, for the first time in its 107 year history, would be buying junk bonds. The caveat was that the bonds would have had to have been rated investment grade as of March 22. (In reality, a large swath of the lower-rated investment grade bonds were going to be downgraded to junk even if the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak had not occurred.) And, just as the junk bond ETF market had figured correctly all along, the Fed in its updated April 9 Term Sheet for the SMCCF announced that it would also be buying junk bond (a/k/a high yield) ETFs.

That April 9 announcement came at 8:30 a.m., one hour before the stock market opened. The shares of HYG rallied strongly on volume of 88.8 million shares, more than twice the volume of earlier in the week.

In recent days the rally in HYG and the junk bond market in general is beginning to fade. It will be interesting to see what hat trick the Fed attempts next.
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GreedyAgorist GreedyAgorist 4 years ago
Or it could do the opposite, go up first and then down. Just to mix it up, you know.

Stay safe.
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