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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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- ECB Now a Hedge Fund; €1T Bazooka; ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade; Draghi Has it Backwards
- Only 26% in Favor of Obama's Amnesty Plan for Illegal Immigrants, 62% Oppose, Rest Uncertain
- ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?
ECB Now a Hedge Fund; €1T Bazooka; ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade; Draghi Has it Backwards Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:34 PM PDT Draghi Has it Backwards A director at a global financial company with offices worldwide pinged me in response to my post ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?. Hello Mish,Bond Bubble Grows I responded to "NW" with "I agree 100%. All they have done is give banks the incentive to park money on sovereign bonds with diminishing yield. The bond bubble grows." It is ridiculous that Spanish and Italian 10-Year bonds trade at a lower yield than 10-year us treasuries, yet that is the current state of affairs. Is there 0% risk of a Greece- or Cyprus-like disaster in Spain, Italy, or Portugal? That's exactly what those yields suggest. European banks, already leveraged to the hilt in their own nation's bonds, will now buy more to avoid receiving -0.2% interest on funds parked at the ECB. Moreover, European banks under pressure to help SMEs (small and medium businesses) will no doubt make poor lending decisions. Bank losses will grow, €1 Trillion Bazooka How big is that Bazooka? An Independent headline reads ECB's €40bn stimulus gamble to boost European economy. It now appears €40bn is orders of magnitude off. Please consider an ECB Press Conference Q&A (not available when I commented yesterday). Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. Could you give us more insight into how much you expect the impact to be for the new measures? And my second question is, following your speech in Jackson Hole, did you discuss QE today?An increase in the ECB's balance sheet to that size would imply something on the order of one trillion euros. Guarantee? Draghi confirmed the asset purchases would "include the real estate, the RMBS, real estate ABS. It would also include a fairly wide range of ABS containing loans to the real economy," but only "the senior tranches, and the mezzanine tranches only if there is a guarantee." Can I ask: Who provides the guarantee, and why should any such guarantee be considered any good? Short-Term Rates Go Negative in 4 Eurozone Countries In ECB Opens Liquidity Spout, Reuters reports ... The euro was deep under water on Friday having suffered its steepest daily fall in three years after the European Central Bank stunned markets by cutting interest rates and embarking on a trillion-euro asset-buying binge.ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade Lovely. By creating an incentive to sell euros, the ECB is effectively promoting a Euro-based carry trade. Since a yen-based carry trade did nothing to stimulate lending in Japan, why is a carry trade supposed to stimulate lending in the Eurozone? Moreover, it's one thing when global interest rates are high enough to cover a significant portion of currency fluctuations, but what does one do when 12-month US treasuries yield less than 0.1% and 2-year treasuries yield only 0.54%? The answer of course is to plow in to risky emerging markets at a time of already heightened risk. I confidently predict some hedge funds will blow up attempting such a maneuver with leverage. ECB Now a Hedge Fund The comment of the month award goes to Guru Huky at Guru's Blog for his accurate assessment of Thursday's surprise announcement by the ECB. Guru says Draghi Turns the ECB Into Hedge Fund While Lowering Rates to Record Low of 0.05% To those who think this stunning ECB maneuver will end well, I offer this simple advice "It won't". Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Only 26% in Favor of Obama's Amnesty Plan for Illegal Immigrants, 62% Oppose, Rest Uncertain Posted: 04 Sep 2014 03:54 PM PDT On August 28-29, in a national survey of likely voters, Rasmussen asked Five Questions on Immigration Amnesty.
Results Results show Voters Strongly Oppose Obama's Amnesty Plan for Illegal Immigrants. Obama's Plan Approval
Legal Authority to Act Without Congress
If Obama Acts Without Congressional Approval
Which Should Come First
Voters disagree with Obama on every aspect of immigration, even to the point of asking for a Congressional challenge in court should the president act alone. Will this stop Obama? Nothing has yet. Will it be different this time? Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:51 AM PDT ECB president Mario Draghi pulled out a bazooka today announcing asset purchases. The ECB also cut interest rates to 0.05% (from 0.15%) while offering negative 0.2% on funds parked with the ECB. Here are some details from the ECB Announcement.
Euro Response The Euro has been declining for weeks in expectation of an announcement. Judging from today's reaction, the market may not have expected this big of an announcement. ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble Details will not be announced until October, but the Independent seems to have some in advance. Please consider ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble to Boost European Economy. ECB boss Mario Draghi is expected to outline plans to inject as much as €40bn into the flagging economy. Will this Stimulate Lending? Everyone wonders if this will work. Let me ask a different set of questions:
Yield Down
Meanwhile, yield of the US 10-Year treasury is 2.45%. Apparently there is 0% risk of a restructuring of Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese bonds. Greece was a one-time event, until Cyprus came along. Then it became a two-time event. But don't worry, it will never happen again. Anyone really believe that? Draghi Creates Bond Bubble All Drahghi really accomplished with LTRO is to make Europe the biggest bond bubble in the world. Well bubbles can always get bigger, until they pop. Meanwhile none of these can-kicking efforts have fixed a single structural problem. Instead, they made it easy for governments to delay needed reforms. Forcing Banks to Lend a Huge Mistake These attempts to force banks to lend is a huge mistake. Banks lend if and only if ...
If banks lend in other circumstances, they will incur losses. They also incur losses if they believe they have credit-worthy customers but they don't. The problem should be obvious. European banks lack credit-worthy borrowers who want loans, or the banks are capital impaired. I suggest both. And if this move by Draghi does spur more lending to small uncreditworthy businesses, the ECB will have done nothing but compound Eurozone problems greatly. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
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