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Citi Breaks Secondary Price, As News Of Big Fat Greek Bailout "In Broad Sense Of The Word" Skyrockets Market, Bunds Crash

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Citi just broke the $3.15 secondary follow-on price after, as we disclosed first, S&P stated there was no longer a guarantee that TBTFs would have perpetual government support.

And at precisely the moment when everything seemed like we were about to head into the red, here comes a rumor from Reuters that governments have decided "in the broad sense of the word" to help Greece, according to a senior German ruling coalition source. How this translates in Euro strength is unknown. How this jives with Greece's earlier statement that a call for aid would be the worst signal is also unknown. Yet look at the jump in EUR-JPY pair - the surge in the market as a result is a side-effect.

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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:51 | Link to Comment E pluribus unum
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There's no way they could get another bailout through Congress. TBTF is so 2008

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:52 | Link to Comment Cow
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I heard Dubai was going to be bailed out also.  Maybe not.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:54 | Link to Comment Cognitive Dissonance
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Move along, nothing to see here, it's all just strange and wonderful coincidences. Who knows how God works, the methods he employs or what his plan is?

Blankfein won't return my calls either.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907681.ece

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:53 | Link to Comment Going Down
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So...how do you spell "intervention"?

 

Neither rain nor sleet....The Fed didn't take a "Snow Day" after all.

 

 

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:55 | Link to Comment John McCloy
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I have a rumor for them.

" All the king's horses and all the king's men"

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:57 | Link to Comment Traianus Augustus
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tick...tick...tick...

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:01 | Link to Comment Selah
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Don't bail them out = Boom!

Bail them out = Boom!

Boom = Gold Bitches!!!

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:12 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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Gold Bugs. We're like the ointment and penicillian salesmen at porn industry orgies. You're going to have fun but you gotta buy your medicine.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:57 | Link to Comment asdf
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I still believe that there won't be a bailout

 

 

Interview with German Government Economic Adviser

 

Euro Zone 'Could Cope with Greek Bankruptcy'

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,676157,00.html

 

Opinion from Edward Harrison

 

The Germans will not bailout Greece

 

 

 

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:58 | Link to Comment Cyan Lite
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Shorts are pretty quiet here today...

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:04 | Link to Comment sodbuster
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Too busy selling and moving sell stops up.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:58 | Link to Comment Leo Kolivakis
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OMG, first Dubai, now Greece, next???? Glad to see the sun is still shining and the world has not ended. LOL!

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:03 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:58 | Link to Comment No More Bubbles
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When a short squeeze ends, the results is always the same........

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:09 | Link to Comment John McCloy
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Great example were sending to all the people.

Improverished citizens: "Um..Why should I pay my mortgage, credit card or any bills? As it turns out I actually lost some bad gambling bets, lost my job and racked up $45,000 on my card purchasing new cabinets and Shamwows.

People who want their money: Yeah but you owe it to us. We lent you that money to purchase all those items. The homes, cars, GPS, vacations and dinners out.

Improverished citizens: Well obviously you guys do not have to pay your bills. Banks make terrible choices. Heck even countries like Greece & Dubai have people counterfeit money for them to pay their debts. So whos going to pay my debts?

People who want their money: It doesn't work like that. If those entities collapse then everyone suffers. So you and everybody else have to continue to pay your bills and taxes so we can fund them

Improverished citizens: Oh I see. So if those entities collapse then everyone suffers? That is your basis. So I have to suffer so you do not? No thanks. If I print money I go to jail. If you print it you win "Man of the Year" awards.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:15 | Link to Comment dark pools of soros
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fiat currency needs Volcker to be its Shamwow again

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:07 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:15 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:26 | Link to Comment Racer
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It is also against EU rules is it not? From a headline I saw?

 

But that matters not to the computers!

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 20:37 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:18 | Link to Comment E pluribus unum
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Today's buyers are next week's panic sellers. Count on it.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:23 | Link to Comment Bruce Krasting
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Screw the IPO price. The US Treasury owns 10 BILLION shares. Their cost is $3.25. Now that is a stinky long. Unfortunately "we" all own this crap.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:23 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:24 | Link to Comment illyia
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I sense some cynicism on this thread...

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:24 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:26 | Link to Comment stedanrac
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 What about Portugal, Spain et al? Can Germany back them all?

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:29 | Link to Comment Great Depressio...
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Is it Germany or the ECB? Its most likely the ECB which will expand its balance sheet. So its not a German backing, but a Eurozone inflationary backing.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:26 | Link to Comment Master Bates
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The world is going to end tomorrow, so I just wanna say GOLD TO 6000 by next JUNE!  The gold bars are tungsten!  In three years, the United States will have wild dogs running the streets!  The markets will crash under US debt, like they crashed when Greece was going to get bailed out.

Instead of buying anything, just use your credit cards to buy GOLD bitchez!  Don't feed your family or find a job.  Buy gold, canned hamz, and creamed corn, along with plenty of ammo and seeds for your bomb shelter! 
If you can't buy gold, buy silver, and if you can't buy silver, buy some canned hamz.  BITCHEZ!

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 15:07 | Link to Comment Master Bates
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Somebody has to take up being ridiculous to the point of  hyperbole now that our golden friends have tucked tail and booked it.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:27 | Link to Comment Great Depressio...
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National Bank of Greece up 22% (NBG).

I knew the bailout was coming. There was a very small chance that the Germans would let Greece implode. I can guarantee you that there was some vicious arguing going on behind closed doors.

Anyways, as TD said, "moral hazard has gone global". Markets will continue to rise with this much intervention and juice being pumped in. Gotta put my bull costume back on again...

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:28 | Link to Comment glenlloyd
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I hope it's all smoke and mirrors.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:40 | Link to Comment crosey
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I had to laugh during the radio report as I drove out for lunch, "Dow surges on the hopes of a bailout for Greece!"

I was thinking how long it's been since I've heard of surges based on strong and sustained fundamentals.

Bizzaro world.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:41 | Link to Comment JT Marlin
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Get...that...dirt off you shoulder! 

 

I think a poster above me had a great point.  Dubai was on the point of collapse, and it turned out fine. Iceland's banking system collapsed, and it was ok.  America is nowhere near where those countries were.  So who cares?  Raise our debt ceiling to $1 quadrillion.  I would like to see the other countries of the world challenge us.  I would like to see China, who's currency is pegged to ours challenge us in the open market. 

Seriously, America, is the ultimate too big too fail.  We set the rules, we don't play by the rules, when America says jump, everyone asks, "How High?"  Sometimes, you just need to act as if, act as if you have a big swingin d*ck, which America does. 

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:46 | Link to Comment Eally Ucked
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This round is finished now, be prepared for the next one, and it will be our time!

California bailout. EU will wait a moment after Califa caves in and then will bail out Portugal, States will answer with N.York, then EU with Spain, USA with Michigan and so on! It's getting exciting! Presses working overtime, and the new technology is on order.

 

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:55 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 20:31 | Link to Comment Ned Zeppelin
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So, the ECB grabs the Fed playbook and fires up the printing presses.

According to the playbook, we should go long on the European bourses immediately. It is March, 2009 all over again. The Euro will head down, and assets denominated in Euros will rise.  The only complication is figuring out where you stand when you convert back to USD, but if we're printing, and they are printing, it's kind of like falling at the same speed isn't it?

Tell me why that is not where we are headed.  And predictions of calamity are quite premature once the presses are up and running, we've learned that as well.

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