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Greek Contagion Spreads As Several Italian Bank Stocks Failed To Open

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While things have normalized since the open thanks entirely to the SNB's aggressive EUR-buying, CHF-selling intervention (good to see that central banks have read the BIS' report and have learned from their prior intervention mistakes), earlier this morning we got a snapshot of what happens if and when the SNB, and then the ECB itself, finally lose control when as a result of the Greek crisis the contagion promptly spread a few hundred kilometers west to Italy where as the WSJ reported, "several Italian banks failed to start trading on Monday as fears over a Greek debt default induced many investors to shed peripheral stocks, including Italian, with banks suffering the most."

As the paper reported sales orders on Italian stocks, in particular financial stocks, piled up before the market opening. At the start, the sales orders were so numerous that the system couldn't manage to process them, something that often happens when specific news causes a sell-off on a stock.

Theoretical prices for Italian banks--the prices at which they would have started trading--hovered around losses of 8% to 10% at the beginning of the trading session.

UniCredit SpA and Intesa Sanpaolo managed to start trading some time after the market opened, but were suspended immediately, accumulating losses of around 6% compared with Friday's closing prices.

Ironically, in an attempt to avoid just this kind of selling panic, on Sunday, Italy's banking lobby head Antonio Patuelli dismissed fears of contagion on Italian lenders, saying the country's banks' direct exposure to Greece was less than EUR1 billion.

For now the SNB has stabilized things but how much longer will this artificial "stability" continue especially if the just concluded speech by Jean-Claude Juncker managed to antagonize Greeks even further and pushed all those who were on the fence about this Sunday's coming Greferendum, solidly into the "No" camp.

 

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Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:46 | 6248474 Haus-Targaryen
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Awesome.  Burn baby burn you worthless fucking Euro you. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:48 | 6248479 Dostojevskij
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snipers on the roofs in 3...2...1...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:49 | 6248481 Headbanger
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MAMA MIA!!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:58 | 6248509 willwork4food
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No snipers. This was planned to look like an unfortunate stalemate. There's a reason why the BIS has been so vocal lately.

ONE WORLD ORDER here we come.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:11 | 6248545 Dostojevskij
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if the "no" side is goin to win next is colored revolution: come on, russian involvement, social panic, economic collapse.. all is there and ready.. tsipras will fall one way or another and he is going to take all the blame

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:04 | 6248758 Anunnaki
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Coup means the jackals control the outcome. Don't have to wait a week for up or down

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:21 | 6248865 Dostojevskij
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they are not waiting, they are simply trying to manage how it will look like, the most important thing in this world.. popcorn mode on

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:59 | 6248513 Haus-Targaryen
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Really looking forward to tomorrow'S official default, which will hit markets Wednesday.  

While just a technical default, and not a real one until ClG writes some stupid letter -- it will be material.  

On a technical side --

1) Keep paying very close attetion to the Greek government this week.  The Greek government has one week to convience the Greek people that this is the EU's fault, while the EU has one week to do the opposite.  If Tsipras was smart, he would fire all Greek reporters that went to the US government's spin school as reported last week.

2) If we get a letter of default out of ClG this week -- that tells us this default was planned by TPTB and its about to turn into game over.  There will be no recovery for a decade if she writes that letter, as Greece will automatically be called for 132 Billion in debt.  

I imagine ClG will wait until after the referendum to write the letter.  She writes it ASAP if its "no" and trashes it if "yes."  

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:10 | 6248541 Fourmyle
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Winning the battle to cast blame. We may get a new example of a pyrrhic victory out of this.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:59 | 6248514 fudge
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HT is getting excited,,maybe today is a good day for it die. Lol

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:02 | 6248524 Haus-Targaryen
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huh?  What in the actual fuck are you talking about? 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:12 | 6248547 SickDollar
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thst is it folks the BIS has spoken( the report is out):

the advanced countries will be unable to fight back against the serious consequences, according to their 2015 annual report :

• The world will be unable to fight the next global financial crash as central banks have used up their ammunition trying to tackle the last crises.

Central banks have backed themselves into a corner after repeatedly cutting interest rates to shore up their economies.

Central banks may have contributed [to the coming crisis] by fuelling costly financial booms and busts and delaying adjustment.”

from Section V of the Report)

Putting these passages in clearer terms, “The ‘self-interested’ national central banks have screwed everything up with their conflicting policies and ‘too loose for too long’ interest rate regimes, so we want to transfer more control of currencies and financial systems to wise international bodies like the IMF and BIS.”

 

 

now it is public info that the craSH IS COMING BITHEZ, I SAY THIS SEPT 2015

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:12 | 6248551 JustUsChickensHere
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Shemitah

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:22 | 6248581 shovelhead
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I had a case of that for 8 days last week.

By the time I dried up, my asshole looked like a bowl of grapes.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:00 | 6248734 Anunnaki
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TMI

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:16 | 6248828 J Jason Djfmam
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Isn't this the Shemitah pre-game show, to be followed by 3 months of Shemitah history and

anecdotes about all of the great Shemitas and how this one will compare?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:30 | 6248609 asteroids
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Who is more fucked up and just as broke as Greece, its cousin Italy. The numbers there are MUCH MUCH larger.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:35 | 6248619 chubbar
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Shit, I was going to guess the USA.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:48 | 6248478 Mike Masr
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Fuck the EU!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:19 | 6249233 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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...and the bus they rolled in on.

 

there, fixed it.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:50 | 6248484 p00k1e
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Italy’s FIAT wanted to buy General Motors.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:52 | 6248491 Haus-Targaryen
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So the worst Italian car company attempts to purchase the worst American car company, which also happens to own the worst German car company, worst English car company (yes even worse than Jaguar) and worst Auzzie car company.  

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:14 | 6248558 Max Steel
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Jaguar Land Rover sucks really ? I like JaguarXJ , cant afford it though .

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:23 | 6248572 shovelhead
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Could be worse.

At least they don't build rockets yet.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:51 | 6248486 gwar5
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I just discovered my two favorite words are "Carnage," and "Continues".

Exclusively in that order.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:00 | 6248736 J Jason Djfmam
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Here's another one.

"Grontagion"

This is starting to be fun!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:51 | 6248487 loonyleft
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direct exposure to Greece was less than EUR1 billion

lying is just the norm now. 

I promise I won't drink any more. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:52 | 6248490 thecondor
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I hope Greece takes out the entire EUR. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:53 | 6248492 Carrib
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If you bank in Spain, Portugal or Italy it is time to take that low (negative) interest money out of the bank and put the cash where it cannot be appropriated. Or, better yet, buy gold or silver coins.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:54 | 6248495 Rodders75
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btfd

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:56 | 6248498 WTFUD
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One door closes and another one open's, er, closes.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:57 | 6248501 wildbad
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Holy Moly!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:57 | 6248503 sudzee
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Bankruns in Italy ,Spain and Portugal in 1, 2, 3. Euro deposits worth nothing if you can'get at them. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:57 | 6248507 RealityCheque
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SNB - "you shall not pass!!!!!"

Reality - "tick tock motherfucker"

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 07:58 | 6248511 Loukanika the r...
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Juncker, 2011: "When it becomes serious, you have to lie"

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:19 | 6248574 franzpick
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'To tell you the truth, when things become serious like now, don't tell the truth'.  How's that working for you, Junck dealer?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:01 | 6248522 p00k1e
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Go long olive oil.  

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:12 | 6248548 Lostinfortwalton
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Some idiot just said that if Greece leaves the Euro they leave Europe. Does that apply to Italy as well?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:14 | 6248560 shovelhead
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Yes.

But it will take longer to dig a moat for Italy.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:19 | 6248851 J Jason Djfmam
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Together they can start the Suero zone.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:12 | 6248550 shovelhead
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Uh-oh.

No bids on my Vaffanculo S.A. shares.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:47 | 6248647 damicol
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The thing is that im so surprised that anyone could be surprised by what's happening. It was so obvious ., so fucking cast in stone that is like Neolithic granite.
They fuck about for months talking shite about a few billion when they claim they owe a third of a fucking trillion. To fucking scamming fucking bankers that didn't earn a fucking cent of what was lent. In a fake fucking ponzi coupon that isn't even a real currency no less.
For fucks sake, just what fucking half wit seriously believed that would get paid. If I was a Greek I would Quit any job rather than pay a fucking cent in taxes to these cunts. It would be black market all the way but pay taxes, never, I would set fire to your kids backs before I did that.
The fake fucking Ponzi voucher has none zero nada basis to be used as real currency.
Greeks knew that all along, they just played the game knowing for a fact they were going to do this, and they also knew that this would be the beginning of the end of the fuck witted morons voucher.
The thing is, they, the fat unfuckable bitch merkel, and the other cunts, that cripple and the fucking poncing hairdresser . Jislebloom know it too, but of course can never admit it.
It's over, it's fucked as it was going to get fucked in the end, contagion will take three weeks to build, but it will happen because it is impossible for it not to.
There is no fucking money, anywhere in Europe, nothing but but fake worthless tat vouchers and every single fucking bank is totally and utterly insolvent.
Watch this disintegration and enjoy

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 08:57 | 6248712 Anunnaki
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After 6 and a half years of Hopeless Chains, schadenfreude is all I have left

Last summer sanctions on Russia,cratering the ruble last Christmas. Those smug Eurotards thought they had Lemonhead on the ropes

A year later, my how the tables have turned.

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the kremlin as they watch Europe hoisted on their own petard

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:02 | 6248748 J Jason Djfmam
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Huh, Huh... You said petard...Huh,Huh,huh.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 09:05 | 6248767 Anunnaki
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How is gold doing?

How is the ruble doing?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:24 | 6249247 shouldvekilledthem
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Decentralize all the things!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 11:37 | 6249609 D. G. Neree
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Also the banks in the Canary Islands were closed today. The reason is, so I was told, that Spanish banks on the mainland are in desperate need of cash.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:36 | 6249861 COSMOS
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Where is the people's money?  Why are the banks closing.  Maybe they should convert them into prisons for their bankers and politicians.

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