• Leo Kolivakis
    03/19/2010 - 17:00
    Europe faces a commercial property debt timebomb with almost €1 trillion (£896bn) outstanding from the sector and a quarter of that potentially distressed. The UK accounts for 34% of the €970bn total, with Germany second with 24%. Not to worry, global pension funds are busy snapping up properties but do they really know how long it will be before this crisis blows over? And what if it gets a lot worse before it gets better? Are pensions prepared to deal with those losses?
  • Reggie Middleton
    03/19/2010 - 10:03
    As I warned in my Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis series and amid a depression, this Eastern European government has collapsed. Western European countries (and their banks) have material claims within this country, and when combined with pressure from the PIIGS, may be the ones that set off the financial/economic contagion daisy chain. It is difficult to determine who sets it off, which is why it is best to attempt to determine the path of the contagion instead...

ICI Discloses 16th Sequential Outflow From Domestic Equity Funds: $44 Billion Withdrawn Since August

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The lack of trust in equities just refuses to budge. Even as the market keeps going up courtesy of assorted low volume buy programs, short squeezes and the occasional 33 Liberty intervention, not only insiders but equity holders in mutual funds are taking every opportunity they get to shift out of speculative "cap gains" products and move into safer fixed investments. Since August 12 there has not been one positive fund flow into domestic equities, with the cumulative outflows now totalling $44 billion and rising, according to ICI.

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by AN0NYM0US
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:19
#158921

posted in prior thread

Timmay Live on TARP extension with a guest appearance by Liz Warren (let's see if she has gone over to the dark side)

http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/12/10/HP/R/27032/Administration+extend...

by ShankyS
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:17
#158928

I guess the old betting line of, "go against the public" and you will win has now shifted to the financial markets. The public is always wrong. As for getting the Stardust to set a total on the unemployment number or an over/under on the SPY, fugedaboutit. They know a rigged game when they see one.

 

 

by Daedal
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:28
#158939

I guess the old betting line of, "go against the public" and you will win has now shifted to the financial markets. The public is always wrong.

I find the ICI data interesting b/c one of the things I have access to is information on Mutual Fund allocations of ~3000 people. The net movements of these ~3000 people is this:

Feb, March, and July: Money moved into Fixed instruments.

Jan, April, June, August, Sept, Oct, Nov: Money moved into equities.

by Cognitive Dissonance
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:25
#158936

The "Hand" at work. If the (public and private) rats are leaving the ship and yet more rats are in your bunk bed when you climb in, you need to be asking yourself where they're coming from.

My clients ask me why the market is going up when things are getting worse. Even the average Joe is beginning to smell an increase in the rat population, even though my clients are subjected to daily propaganda and programing.

Time to ramp up the Fear Factor again and corral those pesky sheep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftl-SsJVfN4

by Dixie Normous
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:28
#158941

This was "money on the sidelines."  Then it left the stadium, got in its car, drove home and now sits comfortably in its soon-to-be-foreclosed-home-but-they-just-haven't-gotten-around-to-me-yet.

by Anonymous
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 11:08
#158985

Does this include ETFs?

by vreporter
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 12:03
#159065

It does not include ETFs and those are a major beneficiary.

by ATG
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 18:19
#159581

$44 B out of EQ funds

and $8 B into ETFs, mostly natural resources.

$36+ B in cash, hmmm...

 

 

by Cursive
on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 14:56
#159301

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