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ECB Purchased €134 Million In Sovereign Bonds In Week Ended Sept. 24, Compared To €323 Million Previously

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The ECB has announced that for the week ended September 24, the Fed's much more impotent European cousin has purchased €134 million in sovereign bonds under its Securities Markets Program. This compares to an increase of €323 million in the preceding week, and €237 the week before that. While the ECB does not provide the breakdown of the actual bonds purchased, one can be certain that the names of Ireland and Portugal featured prominently in the trade tickets. And even as the ECB is caught between a rock and a hard place, knowing full well it would like to resume to bond purchases to the multi-billion level seen at the beginning of the Euro crisis, such a move would infuriate Germany - as the WSJ highlights: "Elevating [purchases] back up to several billion euros a week would likely
spark renewed opposition in Germany, where both the central bank and the
public were against buying government bonds, Mr. Annunziata says. In
addition, he says, the ECB may want to "keep up the pressure" on
governments to stick to their austerity pledges." Yet even at the moderated pace of sovereign debt monetization, the holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes increased to €122.8 billion. What is not included in this number is the hundreds of billions in capital pledged directly to host banks in exchange for covered bonds, bankrupt stocks, beads, and other worthless objects which Jean Claude Trichet seem to believe are worth 100+ cents on the dollar even in an apocalypse case.

 

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Mon, 09/27/2010 - 09:54 | 607071 Ragnarok
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OT: Leaders of France, Germany, Russia to discuss join security concerns in October summit

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/27/leaders-france-germany-russia-di...

 

Discuss Security Eh? ..... like the collapse of the Anglo-American banking cartel?....... like a new international trade/settlement currency?

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 10:22 | 607115 doolittlegeorge
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they seem to have left out a few countries.

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 09:56 | 607072 Sudden Debt
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Funny thing, as the DOW is trading above fair value these last 2 days and if it ends green today, we might get a bull run :)

DOW 11.000 BITCHES!!  HERE WE COME!!

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 09:58 | 607074 willien1derland
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If Dow hits 11K Trichet needs to be nominated for 'Dancing with the Stars' & his partner should be Rosie O'Donnell - Just saying...

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 10:12 | 607093 lizzy36
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Naw, when dow hits 12K JCT will be on "Dancing With The Stars" and his partner will be Christine O'Donnell (chaste, anti masturbation, evolution is a myth, future memeber of the senate).

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 10:30 | 607131 doolittlegeorge
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Dow 12 K and it's "Dancing  in the Stars" for me.  But seriously...can't we agree that the only thing worse than paying the high cost of these commodities in a worthless currency is paying for them in an overvalued one?  I mean blowing up Greece didn't cause the price of oil...or any other commodity for that matter...to go down.  Neither will blowing up Spain.  Nice to see France and Germany not consider them part of Europe anymore, either.

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 10:34 | 607137 RobotTrader
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Banks and SOX components are showing relative strength today.

Not a good sign for the bears.

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 10:40 | 607151 Vampyroteuthis ...
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The European printing presses hum away. Helicopter Ben must be proud!

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 11:10 | 607235 CheapKUNGFU
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See things are looking up, they bought less than last week...

Right... right?

 

Cheap

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