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ECB Government Debt Monetization Slows Most Since First Week Of May
Two weeks ago, we followed up on the unprecedented ECB leak to hedge funds in which Coeure told a select group of hedge funds the market moving information some 10 hours before disclosing the news publicly, that the ECB would front-load its monetizations under the PSPP program in May and June (due to "seasonal factors", clearly the ECB did not want to admit that the acceleration in May/June purchases is because that is when European net issuance is highest and the entire ECB QE program was terribly conceived in a continent with no excess eligible collateral). We found that just as the ECB leaked, May purchases indeed jumped by a quite substantial 9%, mostly across German, French, Italian and Spanish sovereign bonds.
As a reminder, May was the month when the Bunds suffered the biggest yield surge in history, and many were worried that the ECB was about to lose control of the situation leading others to speculate that the only reason the ECB boosted its QE was to prevent further a plunge in Bunds, even as the ECB clearly desired a Bund yield far above the 0.0% it nearly touched 2 months ago, as a negative Bund yield would make it virtually impossible for European QE to continue excluding further cuts to the deposit rate.
Well, May came and went, and the Bund plunge and yields stabilized, which means that despite (or perhaps due to) Draghi's recent warning of upcoming market volatility, the sell off in Bunds was permitted to continue: which, again, is precisely what the ECB wants, ideally a 10Y German yield in the low to mid-1% range, not some negative print as a result of everyone frontrunning the ECB which put an early end to the ECB's QE.
And perhaps just to confirm that Coeure's infamous leak had nothing to with seasonality and everything to do with micromanaging Bund yields, in the latest ECB weekly report, we learned that after purchasing €13 billion in sovereign debt under its PSPP program, in the week ended June 12 this number dropped to just €10.6 billion, a 18% drop from the past week, and a 22% drop from a month ago. This was also the lowest weekly purchase notional since the first week of May.
Should this weakness in ECB purchases persist, one may ask the ECB whether the "seasonality" of European vacations is also dependent on whether the 10Y is trading at 0.5%, 1.0% 1.5% and so on.
Source: ECB
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Get your "Buy all the things" buttons ready. Once Grexit hits, monetization will hit overdrive...well that is unless GS is short the market and bonds, then expect a collapse.
Draghi must be very disappointed in the EU bond market since it's tending in the wrong direction......
Taper tantrum in 3....2....1...
WTF, yields are going against us: "double up our position!"
Nice opportunity for the large institutions and hedge funds to be able to reduce their big long positions in EU sovereign debt by off-loading to the ECB.
i still can't get anyone to answer 1 simple quesiton:
"how is purchasing your own debt with money that doesn't exist non-inflationary?"
i still can't get any keynsian to answer another simple question"
"name me 1 thing other than gasoline (which over the last 15-20 years is still up 300%) which you are not paying all-time high prices for? healthcare, rent, food, movies, ballgames, taxes, toll roads/bridges, clothes, stock prices, bond prices all suggest to me we are & have been dealing with hyperinflation of our time and it is the single-primary driver as to why & how we have hollowed-out the middle class"
any keynsian lunatic viewing this board, feel free to engage in a conversation with me on this topic as it pertains to debt monetization.
Weren't they going to "front load" the purchases going into the summer? This does not look like front-loading to me.
"You mean they <gulp>....... LIED??"
The ECB is "back-loaded" by the market at the moment. And they don't seem to enjoy it judging from the bags under Dhragi's eyes...
^^^
keynsian/costanza-nomics: "remember, its not a lie, if you believe it..."
… plus, be fair -- they’re lying to us
FOR OUR OWN GOOD !