Oil-rich wealth funds seen shedding upto $225 billion in stocks

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Sovereign wealth funds from oil-producing countries mainly in the Middle East and Africa are on course to dump up to $225 billion in equities, a senior banker estimates, as plummeting oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic hit state finances.

FILE PHOTO: A trader wears a mask as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the building prepares to close indefinitely due to the coronavirus disease outbreak in New York, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Around $100-$150 billion in stocks have likely been offloaded by oil-producer sovereign wealth funds, excluding Norway’s fund, in recent weeks, Panigirtzoglou said, and a further $50-$75 billion will likely be sold in the coming months. In addition to the cash reserves, additional liquidity was typically drawn firstly from short-term money market instruments like treasury bills and then from passively invested equity as a last resort, the source said.“Our investor flows broadly show more resilience than market pricing would suggest,” said Elliot Hentov, head of policy research at State Street Global Advisors. “There has been a shift toward cash since the crisis started, but it’s not a panic move but rather gradual.

Slyngstad also said that any fiscal spending by the government this year would be financed by selling bonds in its portfolio.State-backed, energy-rich funds account for a significant chunk of the roughly $8.40 trillion in total sovereign wealth assets, funds they’ve built up as a bulwark for when oil revenues dry up.

Around $216 billion of that fall would be from stock market losses and a further $80 billion from drawdowns taken by cash-squeezed governments.

 

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Everyone is into surgical masks. Buy, buy, buy! ..... Bye.

Adjust living wages to inflation. Correct the market that way.

They were looooosing their mooooney alreaaaady and this is just a naaaail in a cofffffffin they built for themsellllllves and I feel gooOOoOd about it!

They will be buying it back, cheaper. Isn’t this the game they play. And they will right it off in taxes, if they even have to bother with that.

These people why not thinking about the human lives of own country or their oil buyers' countries. So cruel these people. Still, I want to wish you, stay safe and good luck.

Good the greedy finally get a test of losing their ass.

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