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The Definitive QE3 Odds Calculator
The odds of Fed easing at the September FOMC meeting seem close to 50-50 (with both sides vehemently talking their books - Fed officials and equity managers alike). Recent data has been a bit better: payrolls, claims, retail sales, and industrial production. As UBS' Drew Matus notes, other factors that will play a role include the ISM report, claims reports, and 'fiscal cliff'-related events. However, the primary determinant will be the upcoming August payroll report. The chart below ignores these other factors and offers up the odds of further easing in September based on the base case that Bernanke’s primary concern is the state of the US labor market. July’s 8.3% unemployment rate and payroll gain of 163k put current odds of further easing at 45%.
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We look for Chairman Bernanke’s August 31st speech kicking off the Jackson Hole Conference to explain what mechanisms the Fed would use to ease further but avoid promising that further easing will be forthcoming. We believe that additional easing is conditional primarily on the behaviour of the labor market. Prior to the FOMC’s decision on September 13th, there will be an additional payroll report and two additional initial claims releases.
Alternatively, the absence of a detailed discussion on easing options may signal the Fed is more likely to wait until after the US election, resetting market expectations to the December 12th FOMC meeting.
We expect Chairman Bernanke to lay out a path of additional easing that would follow the Bank of England’s (BOE) “Funding for Lending” scheme to address the transmission mechanism of monetary policy rather than simply provide additional liquidity to market participants. We believe this experiment by the BOE will provide the inspiration for a Fed program through which banks would be rewarded (vis-à-vis the Discount Window) for meeting targets related to their behaviour: increasing bank lending, accommodating distressed mortgage refinancing or writing down principal for outstanding loans.
Although we would not necessarily expect a new program to provide much of a boost to the US economy, it would show that the Fed is willing to do more non-traditional activity and is willing to boost the size of its balance sheet to improve US economic outcomes. It would likely prove an appealing experiment for Chairman Bernanke and would have several advantages relative to another round of quantitative easing (QE).
- First, it would not increase concerns around the proper functioning of either the US Treasury or mortgage-backed securities markets. This would be a significant advantage should the US hit the fiscal cliff, with the resulting sharp decline in Treasury debt issuance.
- Secondly, the program would not immediately increase the size of the Fed’s balance sheet and would also likely not be as large as a QE program, limiting the impact on the currency.
- Thirdly, the program would be more efficient as any subsidy would be directly tied to an improvement in lending/loan forbearance; in contrast, earlier QE arguably has boosted excess reserves more than lending.
- Additionally, it is important to note that nothing would preclude further QE at a later date.
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follow the Bank of England’s (BOE) “Funding for Lending” scheme
LOL. Yea, because it's working so great in the UK.
Keep in mind the Fed's money printing never stopped since it restarted in Sep 2010...
What a terrible web we weave when central banks engage in QE to deceive in an attempt to drive equity prices to levels nosebleed.
Oh well, if central fractional reserve banks are ultimately among the few entities owning equities, it won't matter anyways. They'll be able to trade bubble-licious 'stocks' with each other and collateralize them, also, all day and night long...
...Although the Nikkei would suggest they may not be very successful, and may fail hard(er).
cnbc ran with that letter rumour, lol!
Am I the only one getting tired of this relentless bull shit? Ahhh... but the beef is in the bull shit - it's the shit that keeps us alive, so we eat shit every day.
Anyone want to bet on the odds of QE3 if Brent is $125 next week?
If Q3 happens then I think QE 3.1 is a shoo-in.
http://blog.yardeni.com/2012/08/the-fed-cliff.html
The Bernank announces QE3 (formally), brent goes to $140-$150 in a matter of weeks thereafter, Obama has a teleprompter session in the Rose Garden blaming evil speculators (the ones who are prompted by The Bernank's actions), and there's a last minute announcement of a release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve in a desperate bid to counteract spiking oil/gasoline/everything prices before November 6th.
Cunning plan, Baldrick.
Someone needs to get ahold of that calculator & hit the 'divide by zero' function...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bhyywGMp8
Deficit spending is pretty much a form of easing - with the exception that it should cause borrowing rates to rise. As with many things in the market it appears the effect is nonlinear and delayed. When the effect is apparent it will be too late.
I do not agree that sucking money out of the private sector to fund government borrowing is easing. I think it is the opposite.
Can Goldman whip up a CDO squared on that QE3 odds calculator?
Just askin'
<I'd love some more table action. Never can have enough.>
Oh heck..
"Communications policy” BS is working just fine to mislead and buoy equity and to give cover to the massive ESF operation behind the scenes..
and the Kabuki in Europe ought to distract just enough away from the fiscal cliff until after the election which will be the green light for Bernanke easing if Obama wins or it will be a disaster to snidely hand off to Romney and the Republicans if they win.
"Although we would not necessarily expect a new program to provide much of a boost to the US economy, it would show that the Fed is willing to do more non-traditional activity and is willing to boost the size of its balance sheet to improve US economic outcomes."
Please get real it boost's the size of it's member banks portfolio's and Wall St. but doesn't help the economy or main street at all
U.S. Stocks Rise As Fed Sees ‘Scope For Further Action’
Propping up the stock market isn't going to fix the structural problems that are preventing business from restarting. People want a fair playing field. All the FED has done is provide cover for the failed fiscal policies of the government (this includes congress, the administration and the courts). The more the FED does to offset the failed policies, the more the FED has to do to offset. Where are the adults?
"All the FED has done is provide cover for the failed fiscal policies of the government"
add: TBTF banks
8.3% unemployment? Try 17%+!
8.3%........17+%
Before you know it you're talking some real unemployment civil unrest.
more like current TRUE 17%+...............21%...............24%.......SPLAT!
Slaves can always find work. But can they afford to drive to their plantations?
they'll use credit cards to gas up, until they can't at which point their wages will be X - d (debt) - apr (interest payments) = DEATH TO SLAVE
Barracks are being constructed on the plantations as we speak. Problem solved.
Barry....Barack.....Hmmm
Garbage. Catch-22 bitchez. Can you say "interest rates"? I knew you could.
Can you say desperate? There is no integrity left. It really is all starting to sound like bullshit. Anything to fluff the market.
it seems like wall-street wants one of their own inside the white-house. If so what are the chance of bernanke unleashing qe3 which will only help obamma? perhaps obamma can get down on his hands and knees and kiss blankfein and dimon's ass, then fly to jerusalem and kiss the wall again, but short of that I don't see qe3 coming until after the election.
"it seems like wall-street wants one of their own inside the white-house"
So, who does BO belong to? People?
"So, who does BO belong to? People?"
I'd say he's done about as much to fluff Wall Street as any other president. Win/Win for the Street.
LOL theyre always had 'one of their own' in the White House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jucYhMZ4OA&feature=player_embedded
Goldman Sachs and the destruction of Greece
Is a payroll report allowed to disappoint 3 month before presidential elections?
Exactly. The Beaurau of Laughable Statistics is on the job. Guaranteed!
Bullshit
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B. of "Laughable" Stats... good one! (new to me - but I'm retarded, too) up arrow
No boost to the economy.
Or should I say the ECONOMIC RECOVERY. LOOK INTO MY EYES.
Yea they understanding how things work now.
Greece will blow up before the elections by the messages telegraphed by Merkel and friends today. No QE before the elections or emergency QE when Greece blows up which will do jack squat.
anyone who thinks Amerika can finance it's insane deficits without money printing is out of their mind
Correct. Eventually, it will take every dollar of production of every citizen just to service the debt. There won't be one thin dime left over for any "programs". Tax the rich? You can CONFISCATE everything they OWN, not only their annual labor, but everything asset they have, and it wouldnt fund the gubbamint for a year. Then what?
Eventually?
Debt/GDP is already +100%
True dat. So far, TPTB have been able to hide the hungry monster. They won't be able to forever.
Actually, all we are doing right now is making minimum payments on the credit card balance. The minimum payments grow as the balance grows. Sooner or later, you can't even afford the minimum payment.
Right On. But they're not going to call for a QE in order to enrich your miserable status quo. That train has left the station 4 years ago and anything else since was just window dressing.
They will print and dilute the currency. It won't do anything for stocks or other paper assets. The only thing you and I will notice is that the Dollar is worth less and less and will eventually buy sweet fuck all. That way they're able to meet their obligations and won't have to increase the size of their debt and deficits.
Oldest trick in the book.
Odds for QE announcement 0%.
OT: NY Shooting--Looks like Bloomie's Army might have caused most, if not all, of the injuries
"Mr. Johnson, the commissioner said, was carrying a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun “in a bag under his arm.” It had a capacity of eight bullets, officials said, adding that Mr. Johnson had fired three at the former co-worker, who was apparently a vice president at Hazan Imports. Mr. Bloomberg said Mr. Johnson pulled out his gun “and tried to shoot the cops and kill the cops.”
“They returned fire,” the mayor added. A law enforcement official said later on Friday that Mr. Johnson did not fire his weapon."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/nyregion/several-people-shot-one-fatally-outside-empire-state-building.html?hp
UBS has some of it all wrong. The Euromess grand climax will have everybody begging Bernank to pull the trigger. He's too afraid of oil plus the Obama '12 campaign backwash to just blast away now without an underlying event. The event is coming and he knows it won't be pretty.
Boxed in and diminishing returns.
Benny better hope a Lehman type failure does not occur overnight mid-week between now and the elections.
Good times at the Federal Reserve.
I am so sick hearing about QE, I think I am trapped in a nightmare where only people on zerohedge understand how we are getting screwed
I am sicking of hearing about how QE is something that has to be announced when it obviously went into high gear in May. I can't believe people are sitting around waiting for Bernanke to announce how he just gave 3 trillion dollars away and plans to do another 250 billion. He isn't saying. He is just doing. Congress gave him that power.
Which as usual leaves QE being a crapshoot..
STOP ... READING ... RIGHT ... THERE
It's all propaganda or wishful thinking. Not sure which is worse actually. People who are deliberately lying or people who are stupid fools.
It can't be the US data he's referring too. It cannot be the European data either. China is contracting as well. So which ass is Drew pulling the data from that is supposedly showing signs of an improving economy?
We will ease if we have to. Until then.....move along....
Sorry, Lennon. You will not receive an official memo that "Easing" has commenced so you may benefit from a speculative paper market.
The printing will happen as long as nobody calls the bluff. When oil producers and miners stop accepting USD as payments for the commodities, you know that the gig is up.
Yet another day in the "Federal Reserve Follies".
The tragicomedy is beyond FUBAR...
Odds that "QE3" is meant to distract news flow from the fact that the UST still isues tens of billions of dollars per month at a real interest rate that is negative while the Private Dealers flip the USTs T + 1 to the Federal Reserve and of course we should also note that POMO continues to buy USTs as well.
Oh, and OT2 continues....
Move along....
"We believe that additional easing is conditional primarily on the behaviour of the labor market."
Which is more "stimulative" -- tossing confetti at things, or banging pots and pans? I favor pots and pans, because then it SOUNDS like something is being manufactured.
Maybe that's why they start the NYSE every morning by ringing a bell: it's reminiscent of the days when workers had to take breaks from real jobs.
The FED landed us where we are now with their economy destroying QE. Just what we need is another dose of poison to finish us off. I don't want to see another QE soon because of what will follow. Bankers ooooh I don't like them.
Just because some of you love to overreact to meaningless comments (meaningless on the internet?? really??): stocks massively outperforming gold today.
LOL, gold massively beat stocks this week in fact.
Finance is the only industry where QE has improved the employment outlook.
QE, meh! Targeting the federal funds rate at 0.25% keeps the Federal Reserve plenty busy!
how about this angle.. the fed eases big time and jacks fuel prices sky high into the election, all the while Romney is bitching about how bad his fed banker bosses are. The people feel the pain of the fed printing via gas prices and throw oblahblah out on his ass. Mr. Bankster's boy Romney then takes over the white house and doesn't do jack shit about anything he promises during the election and Berstankass get's reappointed.. or one of his cronies. In that scenario they win again.
The chance for any Cocainated Easing at this point is ZERO, unless the order comes from WH as an executive order based on military and strategic consideration against China and Russia. China and Russia refused to take a loss on fannie and fredie bonds until the gov gave them 100%. Otherwise they threatened military interventions in their surrounding areas like Georgia for Russia (which actually happened) and South China Sea for China which is actually happening.
There is no other reason. If cocainated easing 3 happens, it means that things with China and Russia are really, really bad.
When Jon Hisenrath comes out with a statement "The Fed May Ease," this is code for, "We're ramping it now and burning the shorts." It doesn't mean there are people out there actually believing QE3 is imminent. It's just the signal to the Cayman Island group, JPM, GS and others to get long.
It is much more tidy than sending out emails. I think someone once came out with a book deciphering these kinds of codes, only as soon as that happens they all get changed. I doubt is this one gets changed anytime soon though since the more people that know it... the more effective it becomes.
Or another possibility, since the Primary Dealers can no longer lure suckers (there aren't any anyway), the Fed + Hilsenrath are volunteering as Predator in Chief of the last resort.
I remember BAC went 100% up from Jan 01 2012 until Mar 30 2012. Only other primary dealers have that kind of power since they have access to ZIRP.
They are badly looking for suckers to dump their shitty BAC (and other) shares to, but there aren't any so they may have to settle now for another primary dealer to go shit. MFG was only few months ago.
There is more pressure on Bennanke NOT to announce QE before the election than people may think in my view
Can he keep everything elevated for 2 full months on promises?
Inflation expectations are too high for Fed to QE3 now
Fed only QEs when near or below 1.5% inflation expectations
The 5 year minus the TIPs is nearly 2% now, so it has been rising. No chance the Fed will start QE3 now. Inflation expectations are too high. Fed will be forced to wait for a crisis.
See the chart at the following link:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11647578/1/ecb-has-reasons-to-ease-fed-ha...
Reasoning Fed will use:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/768971-the-fed-and-ecb-s-next-move
Voting Fed member Locker had sided with those at Fed who wanted to ease in July. Past week he has said that although 8.3% unemployment is too high, there are other considerations that make QE3 not worth it at this time. And specifically it is that inflation expectations are too high.
This week Fed member Bullard says that the July minutes are stale and that several things have changed since then, lowering the need for easing now.
The Fed has been using talk to keep the markets up, because the inflation expectations are still too high and the prior QE has not worked.
So the Fed is not going to repeat what hasn't worked, unless there is a crisis that forces them to ignore high inflation expections.
So we will get a crisis (drop in stock market) first.
And the ECB is not going to buy unlimited bonds, until there is enough of a crisis that Spain and others go hat in hand, asking for bailout and officially agreeing to the harsh conditions that the core (Germany, Finland, etc) demand.
And China is trying to balance a real estate bubble and rising food prices (30% of their CPI unlike only a few % of ours in West), so they are not going to stimulate radically unless there is a massive crisis that outweighs the problems they have.
The politicians and central bankers played their "talk capital" during the low volume period of August. That capital is nearly exhausted in Europe. Europe will move into action mode. Which means Spain must collapse, so they will request a bailout. There was news this week that Spain's local govts no longer agree to the conditions for a bailout? Spain will have to collapse before it will agree to the conditions.
QE3? not untill we get a panicking herd of spooked papermonkies. The bond market will be the next bubble.Free haircuts for all the kids!
I'm no expert but I thought the bond market was already in über bubble land?