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"What Hath Kuroda Wrought?"
We have been warning about the circular and adverse impact of soaring JGB yields since the day Kuorda announced the BOJ's new shock and awe "double the monetary base or bust" policy ("Is It Beginning? Biggest JGB Price Collapse In Over 10 Years Triggers TSE Circuit Breakers" ,"Japanese Finance Ministry Warns Surge In JGB Volatility May Lead To A Sharp Bond Selloff", "Toyota Pulls Bond Deal Due To Soaring Yields: The Japanese "VaR Shock" Feedback Loop Is Back", and "Are Japanese Banks On The Verge Of Insolvency?"). Now the bond king himself joins the warning chorus fray (but not before the BOJ itself opined over the weekend on the schizophrenia of its own actions).
Gross: What hath Kuroda wrought? JGB yields a bigger influence on Treasuries than tapering potential.
— PIMCO (@PIMCO) May 28, 2013
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OU812
I rather prefer 5150.
Kuorda Kaboke.
Re: 5150
There's nothing like the sound of a drill motor through a 100 watt tube amplifier set at "11"
that's one louder than 10
Filed under: "Ooops"
I think they sprung a leak in the Kuroda Artery...
I've been tweeting this for weeks except I am not on twitter.
Can you repeat the logic again?
How does JGP affect treasuries?
It comes down to exotic financial products. In this case....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_reverse_dual_currency_note
I know there is a Tyler out there who knows this better than I do...
Anyway... This is like reverse 2008. In 2008 the Yen strengthened and the banks were forced to buy the long end of the UST curve. This time around as banks hedge them against a weakening Yen they have to sell the long end of the UST curve. This is a big market. This is a big deal.
It's just funny listening to CNBC trying to pass off higher rates as a sign of the strengthening economy....
Ah, it's a swap, hence a derivative. Thx.
Still, if it increses energy prices, they'll stop it.
That is the irony ekm. It is the banks that are being forced to hedge by dumping UST's. I can't get into it in much more detail, I hope a Tyler will pick up the torch. In the meantime lets just call it a black fonzaswan.
BLACK FONZASWAN
it is
I like it!
My conviction has been that the powers want the market to collapse but nobody wants to be blamed.
Enter Japan.
In exchange for Energy Exports to Japan, they would be ready to take the blame, which would mean that a couple of japanese primary dealers could go buuuuuuum.
I always thought the market collapse would spark an initial run to treasuries. If this continues the collapse will start in bonds and who the hell knows where everyone will run to....apparently the S&P....
Au and Ag sit in the corner patiently, since their manufacture billions of years ago.
These jokers are about to blow up everyone else's bond market and their own.. The chronology of these events are important
You would think the opposite would happen - sell JGB buy US Treasuries? Makes no sense to me. Perhaps it has to do with the Bond market fearing the QE tapering is for real.
or a currency crisis...
My focus is always related to the real economy, particularly energy.
Japan is quite exposed to energy shocks. They can't risk that much with fudging money.
you're right ekm I just fear that these jokers have overplayed their hand this time, and the perception of the marketplace is changing. It never was a liquidity problem and yet these jokers treat it like it is, I fear that the WTI and Brent are going to a delta of 1 or perhaps more vis a vis the USDJPY as that's the only logical place for their cash to go, and once this psych loop is in place it will probably magnify once the rest of the investment community catches up, meaning for every one big figure uptick in USDJPY we might get 10 dlr rise in WTI/Brent, sometime down the road.
I hope this doesnt happen
Ultimately it is a solvency problem but you can bet your ass right now there is a liquidity problem.
I concur. Those Gaussian VAR models all have new outlier boundaries now and they need cash to fill the captial requirements....
The fear is that the very act of selling the long dated USTs might generate more vol, which require them to raise even more capital. The negative feedback loop lurks...
https://twitter.com/pdacosta/status/339421063194763265
There are two VIGILANTES in the world right now, both disastrous:
1) Crude oil price
2) Multy country courrency swaps, thus dollar avoidance.
Fuck logic. I'm still trying to figure out what kuroda wrought means.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wrought
Nikkei is up, Europe is up, US markets setting records...what IS the problem??? We should all be singing choruses of "Happy Days are Here Again!!", right??
sunny
Collapsing equity prices pre sage a depression. Soaring equity prices pre sage inflation and a massive sell off in one's currency. In effect the free market (equities) is calling out the managed (debt) markets. Makes going in there and juicing equities seem rather odd actually. Small business creation still stinks, we'll never exit 2008 until we start normalizing rates. On the other hand....
somebody call a waa bulance for gross
omg.wtf kuroda y u no call me 2? #PIMCO
Any explanation that is not linked to ENERGY as far as Japan is concerned, is useless.
Japan needs energy, otherwise they'll be a 3rd world country.
What Abe/Kuroda are doing has to do with energy and they'll do anything.
ekm see my response above.
The only thing increasing in Japan is their debt load. The target of 2% inflation in two years after a decade of indifferent markets and a moribund economy makes about as much sense as spending a billion dollars on transfusions for Auntie Agatha who's been dead for ten years. Brilliant!
Bernanke has dictated Japanese financial market conditions for years. The shoe is now on the other foot.
If only Japanese authorities could make up their minds about exactly what they want to have happen, and how....
http://nipponmarketblog.wordpress.com/
And of course, during that time (which could be weeks or months) your lab operations will be ineffective.
I've enjoyed reading your blog and will continue to do so. Thanks!
Market had to be up for Bankia recap effort:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/us-bankia-idUSBRE94R05Z20130528
Japan Drops Nuke On US Bond Market
Gundlach's take.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11933506/2/gundlach-gibson-gas-and-governments-part-1.html
Checkmate
But what has happened in Japan can't happen over here right? Right?
Oh gosh of course not. We're much smurter than they are.
Pastor Lindsay Williams said that the Elite will blow the derivatives market by pushing up rates....seems like pop corn time !!!
The T-10 chart is starting to look like the JGBs little step sister.
U.S. 10-Year 2.131 2.011 2.133 2.025 0.121 [5.98%]
No one wanted our 2 years bonds sold today....wonder why???? rush to stocks on Tuesday i guess....20 Tuesdays in a row...this will be the big financial news this year...the Tuesday up run all year long....talk about a game
JGB yielded a bigger influence on me than GD
Relax and find another Job El-Erian, Bill you can retire quietly. The US Treasuries have just entered a multi decades bear market.