About this episode

The episode discusses the current state of the Federal Reserve, the widening of Single-B credit ratings, and introduces the investing acronym HALOs.

This week, our 3 Things are: 1. Fed in flux. Moving toward neutral. 2. Single-Bs widening. What does it signal? 3. HALOs. A new investing acronym and a sign of the times.

Topics covered

• Federal Reserve
• credit markets
• investing
• economic signals
• financial terminology

Keywords

• Federal Reserve
• Single-Bs
• HALOs
• credit widening
• investing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fed, HALOs

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