The central bank’s own data show that slightly more than half of U.S. households own stocks. But that doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.

In the months since CEO Larry Fink’s push to focus the firm’s efforts on ESG, the investing landscape has changed more than anyone could have anticipated.

State Street’s stockpile takes up one corner of a vault in a system that stores bullion on behalf of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and others.

Total assets held by the central bank rose to a record $7.04 trillion in the week through May 20.

Corporate-debt funds have led the intake since the central bank first announced its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility in March.

Shares of the bank have touched a 10-year low.

The central bank plans to make both outright purchases of corporate bonds as well as funds potentially invested in sub-investment grade debt.

For better or worse, investors have mostly turned around the fortunes of risky assets entirely on their own.

Crush of inflows to money-market funds has come even as the funds’ own yields approach zero.

Citadel Securities is humming at record pace as the coronavirus upends finance, moving dozens of employees and their families to a work-from-resort bubble.