Archive - Feb 16, 2010

RANsquawk 16th February Morning Briefing - Stocks, Bonds, FX etc.

It appears that earlier rumors of a Dubai World proposal to creditors for a 60% repayment been have just that, rumors. And unfounded at that. Debtwire reports that in reality nothing has been proposed, and nothing has been discussed.

Fleckenstein, Roubini, Rogoff, Eichengreen all sound off on the European debacle and more on the big, fat Greek swap.

We are having some temporary trouble translating the following statement by BOJ's Governor Masaaki Shirakawa "We are serious about ending deflation. It will take time and
it's not something the BOJ alone can achieve. But we will be
doing all we can." We are confident that there has to be some context here, rendered into logical argument by Richard Koo, as otherwise all those thousands of pages of powerpoint slides, filled with Nomura-produced charts demonstrating that sooner or later Japan will pull out of the quicksand, just a few more quadrillion of yen stimuli, mix and boil, will have been for naught. Alternatively, thousands of Zero Hedge posts will not have been for naught if and when Fed Chairman Bernanke utters some variation on a theme by Shirakawa.