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European Funding Pressures Spike Most In 14 Months

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One of the most important indicators of stress in the financial markets of Europe during the heady days of the crisis was the EUR-USD basis swap. Simply put it is an indication of the trouble that European banks are having funding themselves. Thank to the LTRO and a wash from the ECB, it has been largely off the radar for most media types. However, we note that today the 1Y EUR-USD basis swap smashed lower (more stressed) by the most since December 2011 and is at its most stressed since November. It seems trouble, no matter how much Draghi promises, is not too far under the surface...

 

 

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Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:49 | 3349156 hedgeless_horseman
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He is standing on his head.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:53 | 3349177 redpill
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What the puck is going on in here?

 

And nice downshirt on the giant bazumbas in the Bad Idea T-shirts Ads.  Good job, Google, how did you know I was thinking about boobs?

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:57 | 3349196 DJ Happy Ending
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I wonder if this result was part of the EU central planner's vision.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:02 | 3349216 redpill
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What, the boobs?  If so it's the first thing I've ever agreed with them on!

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:05 | 3349227 BurningFuld
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I turn OFF my adblock when I come here. ;)

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:16 | 3349280 Dr. Richard Head
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I keep mine off so I can come in here.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:34 | 3349352 csmith
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"Google, how did you know I was thinking about boobs?"

 

I think that was the very first line in the GOOG adsearch loop:

 

IF subject = male THEN content = boobs

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:49 | 3349158 Cognitive Dissonance
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It's not the fall that'll kill ya. It's the sudden stop.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:55 | 3349188 filletandrelease
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Deccelaration shock?   Or Cement poisioning?  Either one is bad.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:51 | 3349163 lolmao500
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Ben just needs to send more money to the ECB undercover. Problem solved. It's not like congress is gonna stop Ben after all... most probably think it's good since it helps stop a worldwide economic collapse.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:42 | 3349395 Cdad
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Ummm....the worldwide economic collapse has already occurred.  You seem to be confusing economics with markets which, by the way, no longer exist.  In place of markets, what we have now is a global cosmic bunny hole...going super nova...instead.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:52 | 3349171 Yen Cross
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 The bond market is having nothing to do with the stock market. T-10s off 3.12%

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:06 | 3349238 redpill
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I don't understand why PMs didn't move up farther.  If this event isn't a giant lesson of "if it's not in your hand you don't really own it" then I don't know what is.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 17:17 | 3349551 Yen Cross
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  P.Ms will move higher as soon as the banks reopen in Cyprus.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:53 | 3349180 fonzannoon
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fucking green close for the dow.

bravo

this market has no semblance of reality. None.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:04 | 3349226 JenkinsLane
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It is genuinely laugh out loud funny. 

 

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:10 | 3349254 walküre
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LOL EOD

yes, I'm having one of those more frequently.

if we can't laugh anymore, I get really worried

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:11 | 3349232 gjp
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At this point, the crazier the better, the depravity of it more and more evident to all.  Something will trigger the accident soon enough.  We're not talking years any more.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:56 | 3349191 JamesBond
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The FED is already printing 100 billion to re-capitalize Cyprus.  Check's in the mail.

 

jb

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:59 | 3349201 fonzannoon
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cnbc can't pitch what a crazy day it has been enough. Just absolutely crazy. pandemonium....everyone stay tuned...

looks like we are going to close up 8 points....

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:59 | 3349204 creeper
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Totally and completely off-topic, for which I sincerely apologize, but I don't know any better place to go for an answer to this question:  Can the IRS charge your credit card for what you owe them without your authorization?  Settle the argument, please.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:03 | 3349220 little buddy bu...
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paypal gets to do it, why not the IRS? in other words, do not presume they can't.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:22 | 3349303 slightlyskeptical
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I would say no, but there are no rules any longer. I do know I would never make a payment on that credit card again unless they reverse it.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 17:24 | 3349588 Just Ice
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No.  They can freeze your bank accounts or seize personal/business property but they cannot obligate you contractually to your credit card holder, (charge your credit card without your permission). 

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:01 | 3349208 sharky2003
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by "trouble funding themselves" does this mean contagion is spreading and people are pulling their deposits in other euro countries or something else?

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:01 | 3349213 swissaustrian
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The whole thing is so fragile that a fart of an economy the size of Cyprus can have an impact like that

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:10 | 3349252 ekm
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Good one.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:13 | 3349265 fonzannoon
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ekm I know you think we are down to a matter of weeks now before a PD bites it or an 87 style hit happens but you don't seem to be buying this either.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:24 | 3349293 ekm
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Correct. I don't buy it at all.

It's the White House who decides, either by logic or forced.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:15 | 3349273 Winston Churchill
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The cat is well and truly out the nosebag in the stable.

If the sheeple don't realise whats planned for them now,their DNA needs to

be removed from our ecosystem anyway.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:01 | 3349214 little buddy bu...
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slapshots from the top of the circle can be a real bitch with no helmet or face shield...

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:02 | 3349215 Jeronimo
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Surely you jest.  And of course you know the answer no, for now.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:05 | 3349229 venturen
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just print more...that is the way we do it.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:06 | 3349237 thismarketisrigged
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the best part of the day was how cnbc was saying before the close , will we finish green, or will we continue this ''selloff'' for 3 straight days.

 

sell off? sell off? are they fucking serious? even if we would have finished red, it would have been 3 straight days where the dow did not even lose 100 pts combined, yet they have the fucking nerve to say ''selloff''?

 

i cant wait for bens speech tomm, that should pump the market up 4 plus percent. no fucking reality in these markets.

 

also, the market has not factored in cyprus one bit, but dont worry, if there is some type of bailout agreed on, the market will act like it had sold off sharply due to it and buy back a ton. 

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:08 | 3349245 squid virtuous
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but the Dow is green, who cares about all this Euro crap... Euro this, Cypress that, blah blah just by the dip, every fukn dip.... /sarc off

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:14 | 3349267 kito
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well, cyprus is clearly a non-event...................move along now..............buy stocks...........they are undervalued based on completely manipulated bond yields..............................

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:18 | 3349285 mdtrader
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Weekly chart not looking good for the EUR/USD.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:58 | 3349479 earleflorida
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Do$$ar  parity to Euro coming soon?... or will the EU crash the party['s] luv fest?

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 19:22 | 3350172 harry555
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Euribor got hit at 3pm UK time, which was after Cyprus rejected the bail in. The timing therefore suggests this move was a result of something else, maybe contagion of the crisis to the wider eurozone. Front month was down more than back which, as the article suggests, means the demand for euros is immediate.

Eurodollar strip was also down although not as pronounced.

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