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Credit Plunge Signals 'All Is Not Well'
European (like US) stocks remain in a narrow range just above the cliff of the unbelievably good NFP print of 2/3. US and European credit markets have lost significant ground since then and it seems equity investors just want to ignore this 'uglier' reality for now. The BE500 (Bloomberg's broad European equity index) is unchanged from immediately after the NFP 'jump', investment grade credit is +10bps from its post-NFP tights, crossover (or high yield) credit is around 50bps wider, Subordinated financial credit is +50bps off its post-NFP wides at 382bps, and senior financial credit is an incredible 36bps wider at 225bps (by far the largest on a beta adjusted basis). The divergence is very large, increasing, and a week old now and perhaps most importantly as we look forward to LTRO Part Deux, LTRO-ridden banks have underperformed dramatically (40bps wider since 2/7 as opposed to non-LTRO banks which are only 10bps wider) - how's that for a Stigma? Some 'banks' have suggested the underperformance of credit is due to 'technicals' from profit-taking in the CDS market - perhaps they should reflect on why there is profit-taking as opposed to relying on recency bias to maintain their bullish and self-interest positioning as the clear message across all of the credit asset class is - all is not well.
European financial credit is at over a two-week wide here and across the board credit markets have underperformed since the NFP print - perhaps they saw through the headline numbers?
European financial stocks ignored credit last week and then caught up, we now see the divergence growing dramatically. If nothing else, its an arbitrage opportunity but the drift in spreads is much more than technicals here and we suspect is a realization of the growing impact on the capital structure of banks of the ECB sucking up all the collateral supporting it (while capital is not exactly being raised hand over fist).
The most glaring divide remains the 'stigma-trade' where we have seen LTRO banks underperform dramatically (wider by 40bps) over non-LTRO banks (wider by only 10bps) and this is perhaps the key for why banks overall are underperforming.
Either way, it should be drastically clear to any and all (that choose to look and not ignore relaity in the interest of a fiat-currency-numeraire-based stock market 'hoping' for more printing) that all is not well in the Euro-zone. It is also not just Europe (as we have discussed for a week now) as high-yield credit in the US is also sending warning signals.
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This is all sooooooo 2008.
I hear echoes........echoes.......echoes..........
We're in those, semi funky, all is stable, election year blues....no matter WHAT
I really dont think they care much about 'election year' suspension of disbelief at all myself...Obama has passed the bills and executive orders to just take over as martial law president...makes no difference to him or the banksters at all its all set up now.
well spoken SheepDog-One. Agreed.
Stock market crash bitchez!!!
Vix is up 5% today...Does this mean I should be shorting heaven and earth or just another false flag?
Is it time to quit my job and cash out my 401 into silver?
I've got to concentrate... I've got to CONCENTRATE!... Hello? Hello?
Not so much, though still an echo, I hear a really bad rhyme.
Trillions and trillions of derivatives teetering on top of upside down pyramid points of actual assets . . . written, traded, and owned by the "TBTF" banks, 1,000 fewer hedge funds, and yes, the sovereigns. That is not a healthy economic picture. KaBoom as it crashes down into a devolving economic model where growth can't be goosed despite all the monetary ease.
there is a limit to how much can be "sucked up." the goal remains the same: return to profitability. interestingly there seems to be a divergence between the US and European approaches...since in the US "they want lending to return" and thus "create growth." This OBVSIOUSLY (just look at Greece) is not the approach taken by Europe. In other words "ok, profits return...but then if you succeed who are you lending to?" The answer of course is "not Europe." So again...here's your answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qYxsNNZhdFk
"return to profitability"
This is easy for paper-pushers who are close to the "free" fiat, but for those of us who actually deliver a real product, marigins are a bitch when simplty turning the lights on to see who is on the factory floor costs you more and more money each day.
The flux of energy is still decreasing overall (less supply) yet demand is still very real. Any suprise those power bills keep going up? Bloody pods.
Lemme guess...more bailouts?
"Bailout" is French for debasement...
...in fact it means that in every language.
We are so fucked.
If be we you mean Sheeple...
I wrote a song about it wanna hear it here it goes - Calhoun Tubbs
http://youtu.be/tLRuVM76Yj8
Don't worry, the BRICs are coming to the rescue. They just need to get their military forces organized first, everyone calm down.
How much longer can this farce go on? Surely fatigue must set in when one just wants to shut it off, go fishing, load down some music, a film....Sit in one 's oil stocks, coal, gold, and a stack of ultra short Treasury and just play Rip Van Winkle.
To paraphrase Ben Bernake - I got billions of more tools...with a washington on some and 1's and 0's for the rest.
In other words this farce is probably not ending any time soon.
Dont worry abour it. Our markets are never going down. New age capitalism rewards no matter what the real numbers are. I'm luv'n it.
And all of your paper gains are inflation-driven. Enjoy the moment, you've made nothing in real terms and you're gonna lose a shitload more than you've "made" when this sucker finally rolls over. There are never enough lifeboats aboard the vessel that can't sink. Remember that and position accordingly.
Just been to RCP where Rubio is declaiming that Obama's budget is just a camapign document. My God, riveting stuff. I bet that stirs the jelly. With firebrand crackerjack politicians like that the Repubicans can't fail to win.
when banksters develop stigmata
they bleed out the ass
it's a spiritual thing
the rosicrucians call it the rothschild rose
Yes I agree rip there arms off and beat them around the heads and shoulders.
Auctions went well this morning. Yields dropped. More LTRO coming.
I used all my credit to buy Phyzz. Can I default on that debt now?
Great!! And, yes you may.
Stocks remain in a narrow range? Well we certainly cant have that...cant Bernank print up a couple Trill to throw at stocks for today?
Martial law is priced in
Damn, better put some spray on that
Ignore at your own peril.....Lehman, Lehman, Lehman....
I wish that I was brilliant to understand the nuances of what you are talking about... but I'm not. I just speak dummy.
However I have enough of an IQ to know that something BIG is coming... and I'm ready.
Thanks ZH.
Who cares about credit markets, vixes, or anyting...appl coming out with new phone, have u not heard??
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