Saturday, June 9, 2007

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Economy: particular versus general

ECONOMY: particulare versus general
Wednesday 6, about the crash of the stock market and the surge in yields, wrote that the movement would not be lasting for long. And in fact as early as Friday, everything was back. Rates after a modest correction of 3% have recovered half the loss in a few days, as yields idem. Doing this just real time prediction was easy knowing where to look. Nothing has changed in global monetary policy: China and Japan continues with impunity to pump liquidity, the Fed is not even remotely dream of raising rates, the ECB will continue its rise again in front of a snail's pace (and parodossale, clear sign of confusion of time, that are the left-unions-etc. to criticize the ECB to raise interest rates: do not understand that fraud against the people is precisely to keep real interest rates too low, benefiting the large debtors, but there you are ...).
Under these conditions, as painted in the notes of seven days ago, the likely scenario is always the one described here. Within which there is obviously room for acute phases of volatility and exaggerated, just because the iperfinanziarizzato global system is based on a series of mechanical vulnerable in times of fear triggered by various chance factors.
For example, this week the surge in oil due to direct storm occurred while the Strait of Hormuz productivity data came down and labor costs rising When, Bernanke repeated his usual mantra of the facade (the growth will resume, the more risk to infazione), has generated fears of a rise in U.S. rates by more than ten-year bond at the threshold of 5% yield. At that point have taken other sales of bonds, automated and computerized, the giants of the mortgage used to hedge interest rate risk (those with fixed-rate loans to protect themselves from rising interest rates, of course, sells bonds to fixed rate ), and given the huge sums involved and the usual technical mechanisms (stop loss, speculation that rides the momentum, etc.). in a few hours there was a jump of more than 10 cts. which then came to a peak max. 5.20 a share reached in the European Union on Friday morning, and only the forcings due to speculation, also catalyzed by the unexpected rise in interest rates to 8% New Zealand, which had the counterpart not only on stock indices came to lose 3% Earlier this week, but also on commodities and especially the dollar against all that was stolen.
game so easy for the PPT (plunge protection team) Paulson to intervene in support of the quotations with the opening of Wally taking advantage of the abolition of fears about the damage of the cyclone in the Persian Gulf (oil down) and snap the opposite movement during the afternoon, accelerated in the final classic sign triumph. So the indices retrieved the 1, 5, returning to 5.1% yields, the dollar back down even if only slightly, remaining outside the rebound only commdities (will do so next week).
Among other things, the logic according to which the sick prevailing inflation risk there can be only if there is growth (which is not true, especially in this age of iperfinanziarizzazione), these falls occur when impulsive fear a rise in inflation, there is an automatic parachute: the conjunction of the rise in yields-falling stock market, it represents in itself a depressant growth, and therefore it will follow then that now suffers a decline in inflation. A majority reason the American economy where the disastrous real estate can only get worse if the cost of mortgages rises. Well with that logic, by definition, crises are absorbed immediately. If we consider that those in power can easily choose the time at which to reverse the trend by bringing down the field in his arm (the number of Goldman, Morgan etc..), Causing the coatings to the bearish speculation, and we consider that the taps of global liquidity due to stay open up to Chinese and Japanese, is easy to see how there is no game. Only very strong external events, such as a true geopolitical crisis, can trigger something more serious and lasting.
course, as I illustrated at the time in a separate Special who's boss - to boost its profits - need step "corrective", from time to time. Since the market bubble, outrageously over-valued, it is possible that there is a very hot summer, with other episodes like this, but (until we change the aforementioned monetary policies) will always be reabsorbed (even if we beat the failure of some large financial entity ).
clear, therefore, the episode of the week, I prefer to insist instead on the nature of the system to be deeply carcinogen.
Having betrayed the rule of free competition, as simple as essential, and having destroyed the operation of the law of supply and demand in crucial sector of the currency, reduced to mere act of trust and monopoly became interventionist states that drive interest rates, has destroyed the basic principle of general equilibrium theory, which allowed special interests to become general interest.
now no more hope, the evidence grows every day. It goes from boom in mergers and acquisitions (which increases the monopoly in growing more and more sectors), contempt for the irreparable damage that the myth of continuous growth causes the same physical environment in which humanity lives. With a current example, just look at the ridiculous outcome of the G8 on ecological measures. Emerges clearly as their particular interests submitted without pity the public interest.
Where today would be possible, technologically, connect via video conference at no cost, you instead spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and produce an additional heavy pollution, a farce in which the media puppets come together, knowing that they can not conclude anything serious, if not give some sop facade with temporal perspectives to 2050 (sigh!), dropping a few crumbs from the table to feed their dogs wagging shift (African) and get a clear conscience.
painful.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

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overtaking the share of 5% on the ten-year U.S. sales associates are taken to cover the mountains of transactions made on loans, and the yield has jumped to 5.1%. This has finally been noticed on the Stock Exchange, with the SP500 in the fall of 1500, which in turn triggered the partial shutdown of the carry trade especially in euroyen with the gear fell rapidly from over 164 to just over 162, and finally dell'euroyen the fall has dragged the euro-dollar has lost 100tiks compared to yesterday, reaching 1.3430.
Since the cause of the mechanical movement is cited, in turn originated from the fact that even begin to peep fears of a rise rates (favored by high oil prices), I do not think that will continue for long, though - being a highly doped several times as written - that there can be triggered by excess stoploss chain.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

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note on the markets (3.6)

RAW MATERIALS: they have stopped selling gold
central banks announced that they have sold in recent months large quantities of gold, and this year seems to have done. Immediate positive reaction of the yellow metal that has dragged the entire sector. The oil is smooth, varying between weekly stock data and news specific to the July deadline closes to the almost unchanged from 65.1 to seven days earlier, a level it is now 3 months. Without even the natural gas to 7.88 on the expiration luglio.Si concludes with gold at 677 (August) 13.7 Silver (July) copper at 340 (July) platinum in 1295 (July) PD 377 (September). The CRB index to 315 (June).
position to more than 6 months, rising to 3-6 months
Location: Location
side asset: physical gold

CHANGES: dollar still
The dollar, as a general index concludes the week on the same level of seven days first at 82.29 although there have been numerous macro data. The latter has provided no surprises and were eliminated from each other: in the U.S. to example, GDP slightly weaker than expected employment data have to be counterbalanced by a little stronger.
profile followed by euro-dollar this week is in line with the scenario bearish note last week. After an initial extension to 1.353 immediately aborted, was followed by a test of new lows, ended Friday at 1.34, which have rebounded in the final ending as it had begun to 1.346. The downward pressure seems to be phased out, although the upside for now exists only as a covering from previous sales. Next week there are few data, and unimportant, but at least there are plenty of events (ECB, Bernanke). Friday the options expire in June, range and the more likely is the one from 0.34 to 1, 35.
Alternatively, you can envisage two scenarios per week (but I remain neutral between them because much will depend on Trichet's conference: where will be interpreted as a harbinger of further increases over 4% which will set out Wednesday, most likely the rise, and vice versa).
downward Scenario: breaching new lows of 1.34 and 1.336 envisaged up to where should return to 1.34 before falling back to 1.33. Scenario
upwards bet up to 1.355, where should return to 1.35 before recovering to 1.36.
The general index of the dollar to 82.29 (June) to more than six months
Location: dollar general downward
3-6 months Location: dollar asset side
Location: + call + buy put spreads straddle (deadline June 8), sold straddle maturity. September

BONDS: The yield still up
American corporations have placed new bond issues in May to a record $ 140 billion, and in the past 12 months the rate of increase was 16%, it is interesting to note that the 65% of these emissions relate purely financial entities.
The rise in yields continues, homogeneous along the maturity curve, with the ten-year U.S. touching the 4.95% maximum of nine months. How to balance weekly, in the U.S., the future 3-month December 2007 rooms 11 cts. to 5.33%, the biennial rises of 11 cents. 4.97% in the five-year rises of 13 cents. to 4.92%, the tenth anniversary of 9 to 4.95% and the thirtieth anniversary of 6 cts. to 5.06%. In Europe, the ten-year bund salt of 7 cents. to 4.45% for which the differential with U.S. bonds of similar duration increased to 50 cents. Even in Japan, the ten rooms of 4 cts. 1, 76%, as well as in emerging bond markets, with rising yields in the range of 10 cents.
The risk premium on high-risk securities has fallen to a record low: an average of 242 cts. more than Treasuries, compared with an average value of the last five years of 500 cts. (In 2002 arrived at 1240 cts.). Another record: the share of U.S. government bonds between 3 and 10 years held abroad has risen 80% (which also means that 80% of interest paid with U.S. tax revenue goes abroad). The six major countries of the Arabian Gulf have together accumulated more foreign reserves in China: $ 1.6 trillion. Location
over 6 months to rising yields
position at 3-6 months: the rise in asset returns
Location: nothing

BAGS: swell
The week ends with Dow to 13,668 (+1 , 2%) SP500 to 1536 (+1.3%) NASDAQ in 2613 (+2%) Nasdaq100 in 1957 (+2%) Russell 2000 +2.8% +3.4% Utilities 1.4% transport semiconductors +1.9% broker-dealer Banks +5.3% +0.5%. The titles ranged upward on NYSE share more than 2000. The relationship between put and call drops from 0.93 to 0.73. The volatility index (VIX) 12.78 retainer. The Nikkey rises to 17,960 (+2.7%), always expanding the bubble on the DAX in 7987 (+2.8%), climb all the other indices : the CAC in 6168 (+1.9%), the Footsie in 6676 (+1.9%) is not only Italy at stops without the slightest hope for 43,010 Intel Corp (-0%) and Mibtel to 33,705 (+ 0.3%).
Break time for the super-bubble in China, -4.3%, Brazil 3.5% India and Russia +1.6% +1.9% over 6 months
Location: Location
overall decline in 3-6 months: general rise
position asset: buying put spreads SP500, exp. June 15

WEATHER: about the ECB
Monday, output prices in Europe and orders to U.S. factories, both in April.
full day Tuesday: index of services in May and retail sales in April, in Europe;
international conference which will be discussed in Bernanke, Trichet and Fukui and the U.S. ISM services in May and Paulson's speech on Sino- American.
Wednesday after German factory orders on the ECB's decision on interest rates (expected to grow at 4%) and Trichet's press conference, while the U.S. will come to the final cost of labor and productivity in the first quarter and talk about a couple of members of the Fed
Thursday, in many festivals in Europe while the British still held interest rates in the afternoon U.S. subsidies and sales at 'wholesale.
Friday ended with the U.S. trade deficit in April, expected to remain high on the previous month.
As you can see there are no data particularly strategic, although they can always serve as an excuse for some movement intraday. The central issue for the euro-dollar exchange rate is any indication by the ECB of further increases during 2007.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

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Economy: the likely scenario

ECONOMY: the likely scenario
macroeonomico The debate over the U.S. revolves around two schools of thought.
The first, supported by the Fed and major markets, is convinced that the slowdown of GDP in the first quarter is due to the inventory cycle and the impact of one-off real estate crisis, then intended to return immediately with the new growth above the 2% for the remainder of the year.
The second, carried out by many scholars, believes that the worst of the housing crisis is yet to come, and above that have yet to be felt the effects on consumption.
Personally, as written many times, I think that both schools did not seize the momentous appearance in place: the growth increasingly depends on the super financialization economy, the latter may therefore be able to contain the housing crisis as it finds the first school of thought, but the enormous cost of increasing long-term credit excesses and global imbalances. And if it is true that the indebtedness of households, businesses and government has become too high to continue to expand to sustain growth, it is also true that given the incredible expansion of the financial sector (banks and non banks) mega whose income contributes to the keeping of national income, especially consumers. No coincidence that we are witnessing a boom town for mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, special dividends, etc., which corresponds to a boom town in the issue of new debt in the financial sector thanks to the leverage that supports the increasingly aggressive market liquidity during difficult times (like the current mortgage).
To be more clear: when you make a purchase with the issuance of new debt is added liquidity to the new system, some of which ends up with sellers who then use it to buy other securities, in part, it ends the same buyers through the now popular in carrying out special dividends, and partly still going to increase the income of the myriad of financial intermediaries involved in the process. It is no accident that any notice of the newly acquired stock from rising, causing automatically an increase in collateral values \u200b\u200bas a guarantee for new debt, in a self-sustaining process and seemingly without end.
These are real problems, not debate recession recession-no, which also ignores the risk overall inflation, now in the official accounts to 4% as the GDP deflator.
From the perspective of the economy I would say that everything is very clear when, as rarely before.
China and Japan do not change monetary policy, with the two main consequences of which remain intact:
1) the global liquidity continues to grow;
2) partial inflation (of manufactured goods imported from China) remains low, allowing banks power of holding the real interest rates (with some increase in the facade, here and there, but no actual monetary restrictions).
queso In context, the global economy will continue to financialized increasingly meet the local or sectoral crises with the growing global credit megabolla (and a thousand blue bubbles that arise).
course will continue to grow slowly but surely the total inflation and the global trade imbalance, which provided an income rationem dramatic ending, but it is now clear that it is difficult to see in 2007.
latter was started in the perception of the market, with the idea that the U.S. housing crisis would lead the Fed to lower the rates, thus, bond yields had fallen to 4.5% in the decade, reversing the curve, the dollar had lost more than 4% as the overall index, the commodity and stock exchanges were up, with gold up to $ 700, reabsorbing quickly hiccup on 27 February sparked by fears that the Asian (China, Japan) to change policy: fear proved unfounded.
From early May we are convinced that the Fed will hold rates firm throughout the year as bond yields have worked around the tenth and moved up close to 5%, flattening the curve, the dollar has regained third the previous fall, the raw materials are a little reversed with gold up to 650, and the stock markets have continued their march anyway, because being blown every excuse to go (because they thought the first cut in rates now because they think that the economy is fine, etc.). .
These adjustments started a month ago, could continue for a while, maybe go over the decade to 5%, the dollar recovered a little bit more, and so on, but basically there is no reason why we go beyond the understanding as mentioned above the ' immobility of the de facto global central banks, especially that of Asia.
the near future so the forecast is simple: we will stay with
yields a slight upward trend at the turn of 5%, with the dollar in the lateral band between 81 and 84 as a general index, while commodity and stock exchanges, despite ups and downs, continue their inflated.
Any fluctuations, as well as their size, two variables depend on the usual "stupid" they look at the markets:
1) partial inflation, excluding oil and food: should surprise to the upside, then the markets will perceive the risk of rising interest rates (in this case the rise in yields and the dollar could go beyond the limits mentioned above, while stock and commodities will suffer a correction).
2) the economic growth were to surprise on the downside, then return the current expectations of lower rates and different prices may return to the levels at the end of April.
But I think that neither the one nor the other variable, for the coming months will present significant surprises, so I expect the laterality cited above, despite the inevitable fluctuations (without which the rest of the markets out of business).
Obviously, any geopolitical surprises are always possible and, above all, to the extent that will impact the oil may cause new scenarios and still more acute phases of volatility, but when you do not need think about.