Monetary Policy
European, Asian Stocks Jump As Iron Ore Joins Oil Below $40 For First Time Since May 2009
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2015 06:57 -0500- Australia
- Bank of International Settlements
- Barclays
- BOE
- Bond
- China
- Consumer Credit
- Copper
- Crude
- Crude Oil
- default
- Economic Calendar
- Equity Markets
- France
- goldman sachs
- Goldman Sachs
- headlines
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- Indiana
- Iraq
- Japan
- Jim Reid
- Market Conditions
- Monetary Policy
- NASDAQ
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- OPEC
- Precious Metals
- Price Action
- Prudential
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- Recession
- recovery
- St Louis Fed
- St. Louis Fed
- Trade Deficit
- Unemployment
With Draghi's Friday comments, which as we noted previously were meant solely to push markets higher, taking place after both Europe and Asia closed for the week, today has been a session of catch up for both Asian and Europe, with Japan and China up 1% and 0.3% respectively, and Europe surging 1.4%, pushing government bond yields lower as the dollar resumes its climb on expectations that Draghi will jawbone the European currency lower once more, which in turn forced Goldman to announce two hours ago that it is "scaling back our expectation for Euro downside."
BIS Warns The Fed Rate Hike May Unleash The Biggest Dollar Margin Call In History
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 22:30 -0500"While funding continued to be available, such a large negative basis indicates potential market dislocations. And this may call into question how smoothly US dollar funding conditions will adjust in the event of an increase in US onshore interest rates. Similar pricing anomalies have also emerged in interest rate swap markets recently, raising related concerns."
The Blindingly Simple Reason Why The Fed Is About To Engage In Policy Error
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 21:58 -0500"... if nominal growth is 3 percent and the debt GDP ratio is 300 percent, the implied equilibrium nominal rates is around 1 percent. This is because at 1% rates, 100% of GDP growth is necessary to service interest costs."
It Begins: Desperate Finland Set To Unleash Helicopter Money Drop To All Citizens
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 21:25 -0500- Australia
- Bank of England
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Central Banks
- European Central Bank
- Finland
- fixed
- Germany
- Great Depression
- Greece
- HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT
- International Monetary Fund
- Ireland
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- Krugman
- Larry Summers
- Milton Friedman
- Monetary Base
- Monetary Policy
- Moral Hazard
- None
- Output Gap
- Recession
- SocGen
- Sovereign Debt
- The Economist
- Turkey
- Unemployment
Over the last few months, in a prime example of currency failure and euro-defenders' narratives, Finland has been sliding deeper into depression. Almost 7 years into the the current global expansion, Finland's GDP is 6pc below its previous peak. As The Telegraph reports, this is a deeper and more protracted slump than the post-Soviet crash of the early 1990s, or the Great Depression of the 1930s. And so, having tried it all, Finnish authorities are preparing to unleash "helicopter money" to save their nation by giving every citizen a tax-free payout of around $900 each month!
The Problem With "Rules-Based" Monetary Policy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 20:20 -0500Monetary policy 'rules' are no more accurate at determining interest rates than meteorologists are at forecasting the weather. The only difference between the two is that weathermen are precise on occasion, whereas the federal funds rate under the Taylor Rule is, at best, less wrong. Setting the price of money and credit in the name of unleashing the economy’s supposed potential output is the equivalent of enacting price controls on milk to unlock its full buying power. It’s a fallacy that cannot be achieved. The sooner the Fed pawns off its printing press, the sooner its market distortions will be lifted; and the sooner that each individual will be able to make rational decisions that make sense for not only himself or herself, but for the economy at large as well.
"The Fed Doesn't Get It" A Rate-Hike Means People "Will Be Carried Out On Stretchers"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 19:35 -0500- Apple
- B+
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bond
- Borrowing Costs
- Central Banks
- China
- Corporate Leverage
- Credit Conditions
- default
- Default Probability
- Federal Reserve
- Fitch
- High Yield
- Investment Grade
- Merrill
- Merrill Lynch
- Monetary Policy
- None
- Rating Agencies
- Rating Agency
- ratings
- Russell 2000
- The Economist
- Volatility
"It is our humble belief that the consensus at the Fed does not fully understand the magnitude of the problems in corporate credit markets and the unintended consequences of their policy actions."
"Don't Believe The Hope" - When Forward Guidance Becomes Forward Mis-Direction
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 18:20 -0500As we approach the Fed meeting expect markets to get more volatile. While the odds favor a move, it isn’t a sure thing until it is actually done. We found out last week what happens when forward guidance turns out to be forward misdirection. All those traders who thought they had a sure thing, who assumed that Draghi wouldn’t dare disappoint the market, got whipped. Whipped good.
What Polarized Politics Teaches Us About Stock Market Uncertainty
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 17:30 -0500It’s important to respect the power of econometric models. It’s important to work with econometric models. But we don’t care who you are... whether you’re the leader of the world’s largest central bank or you’re the CIO of an enormous pension fund or you’re the world’s most successful financial advisor... it’s a terrible mistake to trust econometric models. But we all do, because we’ve been convinced by modeling’s henchman, The Central Tendency.
Extreme Gold Positioning Grows As Hedge Funds Add To Record Shorts
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 15:30 -0500With an all time high of 293 ounces of paper per ounce of registered physical gold, it appears hedge funds continue to ignore systemic risk and surging physical demand, merely following the trend lower in paper gold prices by adding to already record short positions in gold last week. With the speculative world near-record long the USDollar and record short gold, how much longer can the status quo boat can remain upright with so many on the same side. After this week's shake-out of USD longs courtesy of Draghi, one wonders if the gold squeeze is about to begin?
BIS Warns That "Uneasy Calm" In Markets May Be Shattered By Fed Hike Imperiling $3.3 Trillion In EM Debt
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 10:06 -0500"Very much in evidence, once more, has been the perennial contrast between the hectic rhythm of markets and the slow motion of the deeper economic forces that really matter. Markets can remain calm for much longer than we think. Until they no longer can."
The Inside Story Why The ECB Decided "The Markets Needed To Be Disappointed" And How It All Fell Apart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/05/2015 18:49 -0500Here is what really happened: the ECB tried to engineer a modest market selloff because the "market needed to be disappointed", coupled with a modest rise in the EUR to give the Fed some rate-hike breathing room. Instead the market's dramatic overreaction in stocks and FX forced Draghi to not only panic but to publicly come out and admit that the only purpose of his Friday speech was to offset the damage from his failure to defeat the opposition at the governing council and to send markets surging. Which they promptly did.
326,000 Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In November: Why This Remains The Most Important Jobs Chart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/05/2015 17:25 -0500According to the BLS' Household Survey, while 375,000 foreign-born workers found jobs in November, a whopping 326,000 native-born Americans lost theirs.
The Beginning Of The End Of The Cult Of Draghi
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/05/2015 12:30 -0500Draghi’s Friday talk of a “no limit” ECB balance sheet must have Weidmann and responsible members of the ECB at their wits end. It’s the nature of monetary inflations that there’s always a need for more. Throughout history, it’s been ‘just one more round of ‘printing’’ or ‘just one more year and then we’ll rein things in’. But things spiral out of control – and there’s a lot of currency with a lot more zeros. It can end in hyperinflation, at least when monetary inflation is afflicting the real economy. Today’s strange variety is inflating securities market Bubbles. It will end with Bubbles bursting and confidence collapsing. Integral to the bursting Bubble thesis is that policymakers are losing control. Granted, such analysis has about zero credibility when markets are in melt-up mode. But perhaps the markets’ response to Draghi is a forewarning.
Here Are The 5 Words That Sent The Market Soaring
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 21:48 -0500"Not really... well, of course."
Weekend Reading: Market Forecasting
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 16:30 -0500The mainstream media is increasingly suggesting that we have once again entered into a 'Goldilocks Economy.' The problem is that in the rush to come up with a 'bullish thesis' as to why stocks should continue to elevate in the future, they have forgotten the last time the U.S. entered into such a state of 'economic bliss.' You might remember this: "The Fed's official forecast, an average of forecasts by Fed governors and the Fed's district banks, essentially portrays a 'Goldilocks' economy that is neither too hot, with inflation, nor too cold, with rising unemployment." - WSJ Feb 15, 2007. Of course, it was just 10-months later that the U.S. entered into a recession followed by the worst financial crisis since the 'Great Depression.'


