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5Y German Bond Yield Goes Negative For First Time Ever

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How do you say Japanization in German? 5Y German bonds just traded at -0.1bp yield (below Japan's 3bp 5Y yield)...

 

 

US Treasuries are cheap...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:46 | 5614465 achmachat
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I wish there was a way to visualize only "retail" demand.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:48 | 5614496 Headbanger
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Es ist voll verzögern!

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:10 | 5614501 Manthong
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Negative government bonds.. kind of like the vault on the Titanic.. with a storage fee.  

Oh, what was that bump a moment ago?

 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:23 | 5614575 hedgeless_horseman
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kind of like the vault on the Titanic...with a storage fee

Nice.

Remember, the ECB Reserve Requirement is now just 1%, so the ship better darn well be unsinkable, because there are no lifeboats for 99 out of 100 passengers.



Fri, 01/02/2015 - 22:14 | 5617243 gallistic
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Thank you for sparing us your excesses (this time anyway).

This time you did not post a photograph of you mercilessly blasting pumpkins with a shotgun, and teaching your kid how to blast fruit in a manly manner.

You did not post the latest home-cooked meal that is giving you those aromatic, perfumed farts you gracefully spread around Texas.

You are not peddling your wife's bored-rich-housewives' five day slumber party where for 50,000 dollars they get to see a goat slaughtered, milk a cow, and actually fire a pistol.

You did not post a picture of a fetus and get on the bully pulpit, judging those heathens, and proclaiming that your god is better than those of (whomever).

And (gasp!) you are not stroking your own colossal ego.

You are too kind.

+1

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:37 | 5614466 firstdivision
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Here, I'll lend you money, and you charge me interest.  Sounds sustainable.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:48 | 5614685 JerseyJoe
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This means the cartel will have to pound gold.  

Criminals hate competition. 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:38 | 5614468 Lady Jessica
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Japanisierung.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:52 | 5614513 SheepRevolution
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Die Japanisierung, Die!

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:55 | 5614520 Lady Jessica
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Sie haben natürlich Recht.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:39 | 5614472 Fun Facts
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congratulations to the syndicate for creating an inescapable global liquidity trap

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:42 | 5614477 Central Wanker
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Why should I lend money to anyone at negative interest when I can hold metals at zero interest?

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:27 | 5614622 pendragon
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because bonds only seem to go up in value whereas metals.....

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:42 | 5614480 Dr. Engali
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Here, I'll pay you to take my money and spend it any way you wish. I didn't want it anyway.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:35 | 5614645 TBT or not TBT
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From what I recall of the regretted Sprockets, the Germans may lean a little maso, so you may be onto something.  

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:47 | 5614489 Sudden Debt
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That’s going to force Germany to allow QE because nobody in their right mind would buy those  earning nothing and risking a big loss if rates would ever rise.

DRAGHI DID IT!

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:07 | 5614548 SAT 800
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It just means more of Volk will be buying precious metals. they're not stupid.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:50 | 5614499 q99x2
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Draghi made me buy gold.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:59 | 5614529 SillySalesmanQu...
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They have been Draghischnitzled...

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:39 | 5614655 Two Theives and...
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We Draghi'd some folks..

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:03 | 5614542 Boston
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US Treasuries are cheap...

 

Now THAT'S an understatement.  US 10yr is yielding 2.15% while the German 10yr is yielding  0.51%.

Come on people, this is FREE money........a total freaking no-brainer. How the hell will these two yields NOT converge!?

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:38 | 5614651 buzzsaw99
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it's an even better buy than that from an eu perspective with the euro in the toilet us dollars AND t bonds are cheaper. the reason they don't converge is because the eu money manager maggots take their marching orders from the squid.

fuck the eu

exactly

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:07 | 5614553 Spungo
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People on ZH don't seem to understand the way bonds work. Interest rates rising doesn't mean you lose money. The maturity date on the bond is when the issuer of the bond buys the bond back from you at face value. Lending money to Germany has basically zero risk in nominal terms because you know Germany will be able to buy the bond back from you in 5 years. Rising interest rates would make the bond holder's balance sheet show large "non-cash" losses, but the losses would be reversed in the fifth year when the bonds mature.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:28 | 5614626 pendragon
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mark to market is soooo 2008

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:09 | 5614561 yogibear
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Take your money out of the banks.

Keep stacking.

Their essentually seizing your money. 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:12 | 5614565 disabledvet
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The dollar looks cheap.

At seventeen percent hell maybe even the ruble is worth something...

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:35 | 5614638 pendragon
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i got some ruble calls to go

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:33 | 5614633 localizer
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If Germany tanks it's game over for the EU... especially considering what's happening with the PIGS...

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 11:49 | 5614692 roadhazard
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Farfignugun*

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 12:30 | 5614906 p00k1e
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Better them than us, Turncoat Germans.   

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 13:38 | 5615197 Gunter
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but but .. we need the money to save the pigs..

And I don't know any Japanese

wait what was that word ??? Harakiri  or so?

Gute Nacht

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 14:01 | 5615301 Ewtman
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UST yields won't suffer negative yields... quite the opposite, in fact...

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/10-year-u-s-treasury-index-yieldellio...

 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 14:46 | 5615484 ThroxxOfVron
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Buying high does = lower rates; but, if the intention is to flip instead of hold, then this is strategically sensible.

IF the ECB is going to QE the Cartel Banks will damned well know in advance.  

IF the ECB is gonna buy then the price won't matter: it will be all about flow to the Dealers/Desks.

Draghi is certainly gonna tip GS to the front run the free money for flipping these bonds to the ECB at an even higher price if that is what is gonna happen...

 

Actually it doesn't need to be the ECB: any CB that offers to QE is gonna have the same effect.

Draghi will know whether he is going to monetize directly or get the reach around from another CB.

The German monetary policy hawks would probably make less noise if a Foreign CB did the deed and not make it look as if Germany is weakening it's stance or losing it's grip on ECB policy...

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 14:56 | 5615520 PenchantForHoarding
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Two words: Catestrophically Fucked

 

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