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European Stocks Tumble As Investors Rush Into "Safe Haven" Italian Bonds!?

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Consumer confidence slumps in the core and Ukraine fears weighed heavily on European stocks despite getting a push from the insanity in US equity markets this morning. Europe closed at their lows of the day led by Italy and Portugal stocks fading fast. It would appear that these worried investors greatly rotated into safe-havens such as Italian government bonds - which broke to their lowest yield on record today... makes sense right?

European stocks tumble to lows of day...

 

All time reord low yields on Italian government debt...

 

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Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:48 | 4661301 Hippocratic Oaf
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Prego!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:52 | 4661343 Occident Mortal
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Mama Mia!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:56 | 4661352 Headbanger
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Dang!   Ya beat me to it!

But ya gott have:

  Prego.. It's IN there!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:59 | 4661379 Tabarnaque
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The USD (DXY Index) isn't gaining as much as one would have thought on such bad European news. It sounds like it is loosing its mojo.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:15 | 4661470 nuclearsquid
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Pays 5% Jan/Jul Actual/360 in Canolis.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 13:23 | 4661811 Thorlyx
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Leave the gun, take the cannolis

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:04 | 4661372 Ham-bone
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long Greeks who are backed by Italian/Spanish who are backed by Japanese who are backed by Americans' who are backed by Belgium. 

Go long gov bonds and short gold (no physical available?  just go shorter the short contracts)...golds backed by nothing while the might of the modern world stands behind and ready to pay their debt obligations!!!

In reality - all major gov debt bonds are backed by one another...so those yielding the highest have the same risk as those yielding the least...

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:46 | 4661626 furgheddubouddit
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Italian bonds......German bonds..........Spanish bonds........Greek bonds...........they're all backed by the same ECB printing press, so what does it matter? 

Technically there probably shouldn't be any real difference in yields at all.

Just another case where Central Bank intervention has completely distorted/destroyed the 'free' markets.

The days of proper risk pricing are long gone.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 13:24 | 4661816 Thorlyx
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true that

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:48 | 4661305 PlusTic
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LMFAO...this is the video game we now live in...

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:49 | 4661314 Bill of Rights
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Safe heaven lmao!!!!!!!!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:52 | 4661338 Grande Tetons
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Soveign debt is like the burning embers to a firewalker.  The trick to not get burned is to never stand still in the same place for too long. 

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:54 | 4661351 maskone909
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financial hot potato/musical chairs

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:50 | 4661315 TaperProof
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Anything but PMs and stocks.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:50 | 4661320 youngman
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You would think they would know that their Russian gas is going to be shut off....that has to have some effect I would assume....and Bercoloni got sentenced to 1 year of nothing....singing to old folks...so all is good in Italy...

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:50 | 4661323 Ignatius
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"... makes sense right?"

Nothing makes sense anymore.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:24 | 4661520 Ghordius
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why not? we are talking about major G20 industrialized countries which are at the bottom of their cycle, with a currency they can't devalue, after years and years of shrinking deficits. just saying

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 13:42 | 4661897 Ignatius
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I wasn't specific enough and was speaking to the amount of rigging going on in the markets.  Stuff like store closings, unemployment rising, missed earnings and... stocks up!  What seems like it s/be up, go down, and those which one would expect to fall keep rising.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:53 | 4661324 hobopants
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Someone turned the dial to full retard again....

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:51 | 4661327 Save_America1st
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yeah, well how 'bout this bullshit? 

New Derivatives Rules Rescinded To Help Banks Make More Money http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/new-derivatives-rules-rescinded-to-help-banks-make-more-money/

 

Derivatives Rules Softened in Victory for Banks

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-10/derivatives-rules-softened-in-victory-for-banks.html

 

And as Denver Dave says at the end of the first article above:

"Anyone who understands what is going on here and continues to keep their money inside the financial system is either extremely naive or tragically stupid.  Forewarned is forearmed."

 

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:56 | 4661333 Belrev
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dsaf

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:51 | 4661335 Yen Cross
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     I thought it was the French that boiled frogs?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:52 | 4661337 Jack Burton
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Italian bonds. Jesus, Italian riot troops were beating and arresting austerity protestors just yesterday. The people claim high housing costs, low wages, austerity and rising food prices are killing Italian families. EU paradise! Spread it to East Ukraine! Wonder why they fight to keep the IMF and EU cunt bankers out!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:19 | 4661492 disabledvet
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Great Depression. "Just like Japan only you have many Japans."

Every "asset" is being monetized...deman is falling off a cliff, Belgium is being used to convert hundreds of billions of euro's to buy treasuries in an attempt to drive down the value of said currency.

it will fail of course. "and now you have Ukraine." Hard to call that a front line.

Yet.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:54 | 4661353 Oh regional Indian
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Now that is hilarious....

Full Retard.

Next up, inflation proof Zimbabonds and a strongly strengthening Yen...and rising interest rates in the US....ding...ding...ding...

ori

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:13 | 4661458 A_Nejad
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Zimbabonds?? Why the fuck didn't I think of that!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:56 | 4661356 Bill of Rights
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So it all makes sense now. Pound Gold ( Non safe heaven ) and pool everyone toward Bonds ( the safe heaven ) the fakery is more exposed daily, truly amazing how these actors operate with ZERO regulation. The bought and paid for are paid off and so on and so on and so on....

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:55 | 4661357 NOTW777
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waiting for WSJ to explain the chinese are selling gold to buy NFLX and ukrainian vacation property

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 11:58 | 4661375 Kreditanstalt
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Wait a minute --- these are "investors"?

 

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:05 | 4661404 Latitude25
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Yeah and they're probably buying physical gold like crazy too but there's an MSM blackout on that

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:07 | 4661413 PlusTic
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Meanwhile, 5yr treasury note yields are flat...these gullible fukks still think Ole Yeller is going to raise rates next year...M-O-R-O-N-S

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:20 | 4661497 SpanishGoop
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Belgium bonds i could understand because Belgium owns and just bought more of US paper so....o no, never mind.

 

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