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Dexia's Sinister Reality
We have long discussed what we suspect will be one of the first European financials to hit the proverbial fan. Given today's anarchic behavior in the US and European markets (credit and equity) and the continued insistence by TPTB (yes you Mr. Greek finance minister) that this is all due to a speculative rumor-mongering attack, we decided to layout some basic facts on one of the banks that was saved by the Fed/FDIC.
Dexia has a Tangible Common Equity Ratio of 0.97% (according to a Bloomberg screen, and we have excluded Canada for our hyperventilating Canadian readers who pull a fainting goat each time they see that which should better remain out of sight and out of mind) which is 2nd lowest among the 848 financial firms globally with Total Assets over $100bn.
Dexia has EUR167.5bn of debt outstanding. EUR5.3bn is due to mature in September and EUR6.3bn more in October alone.
At a current 5Y CDS of 720bps equivalent for seniors (around 29% upfront for sub debt), rolling that debt is going to be expensive. But it gets better, because USD8bn of the September maturing debt is TLGP-backed debt which as can be seen in the far right column in the chart below have ridiculously low yield (yes that is a yield not a spread). This means that DEXGRP needs to roll USD8bn low interest expense debt in the next two weeks into extremely expensive financing OR suckle at the ECB's teat - watch for that jump in liquidity provision.
Of course CDS markets are not unaware of this - as the chart below indicates - but the point being - is a bond manager in his right mind to hedge exposure to this name? Is DEXGRP fundamentally sound and deserving of the market's confidence? If not then reducing exposure seems to make perfect sense to us and furthermore free markets, liquid arbitrage potential between CDS and cash bond markets (as well as equity and volatility markets for this name) mean attacking one leg of the capital structure is simply too risky a proposition (and expensive) unless conviction is high that this firm appears distressed.
Charts: Bloomberg
So whether you view market price action as sinister or simply a reflection of reality, it is time the band aid of TLGP (among every other government-funded crutch) is removed and the market allowed to perceive risk and receive signals upon which to act in order that those that survive can proceed and lead.
And in case you were wondering what the rest of the TLGP-heavy maturities look like - Q3 and Q4 are going to be a busy time for bank refis. For example, MS has USD3.15bn due 9/22, Citi USD3bn by 11/15, and BAC USD3.6bn due 12/2 - all at miraculously low yields/interest expense.
dexter (Latin) - pertaining to the right-hand side
siniter (Latin) - pertaining to the left-hand side
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Shit meet fan
Brown spots meet wall.
Ready for Reality. At last!
Self-wielded gun barrel meet banker mouth!
I just hope they remember to put a trashbag over their heads first so the poor maids don't have to clean brains off the hotel room wall.
It's bad luck to walk under Bank Windows.
Still, it's better than Dexy's Midnight Runners.
QE3 finds TLGP
"it is time the band aid of TLGP... is removed and the market allowed to perceive risk and receive signals upon which to act in order that those that survive can proceed and lead."
But, that would mean "Free Market Capitalism" might break out!!?!
Which cannot be allowed to happen, of course.
*just out of curiosity, is your avatar supposed to be this guy?*
http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/files/2008/04/dover-boy...
Which would be the first time in the history of the world.
whalescat meet propellor
What was that German phrase that PY said a long time ago?
Die Kack ist am dampfen?
Or something like that.
pods
Yes, exactly. :) Die Kacke ist am dampfen.
Now you learn another German phrase:
Wir sitzen knietief in der Scheiße.
(lol:LEO says: to be deep in doo-doo. literally: sitting knee-deep in shit)
And here you have my personal favorite German outburst of fury (Actor Klaus Kinski at the set of 'Fitzcarraldo' - the Indians were so scared of Kinski that they offered to kill him) - like Angry German kid on steroids. And the kicker - the director said that this was rather mild compared to his daily outbursts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ADI9p2wHY
And here in French:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyM68DCq9hE
I gotta learn German. Perfect language to chew someone out!
Danke Sehr!
pods
Sudden debt disaster
Excrement, meet rotary oscilator.
Man theres a WHOLE lot of empty air underneath this tattered and frayed net.
Holy shit..
...meet Holy fan
...meet Holy brown spots on the Holy wall
That evil zerohedge spreading more rumours.
Dexia, deny them as soon as possible!
the faster the denial the higher the cds spread.
"We are adequately capitalized."
"If the CDS chart was the equity one"...if my aunty had balls...
Aunty, please turn your head and cough.
She'd be your Uncle?
A few weeks back i was speaking to a PM who was holding some unfortunately heavy exposure to DEXGRP, but hadn't hedged with CDS. It was 'too expensive' at the time. Well, about +200bp later, i could tell he wasn't smiling last i exchanged an email with him.
LOL
The problem with waiting for something to get cheaper is that it might just get more expensive.
+100
Then again, maybe 1yr GRE paper @ 90% is "good enough" finally!
Good enough often makes for bad marriages......from both points of view. :)
that's what I'm sayin to self when looking at kruggerands lately...
Why do you have to figure everything out for them?
I wanted surprise, surpise MISTER PYLE
Don't worry the NFL season is starting and it will save us all. I just read an article about the NFL jump-starting the economy. They used gameday in Cleveland as an example. Trotting out owners of restaurants saying that Gameday is insane and they need 15 servers just to handle the demand. How Gameday makes their year and all that jazz.
IT'S COMPLETE BULLSHIT!!!!
I work in downtown Cleveland and yes game day is insane and the bars are packed. BUT ONLY FOR 8 DAYS OUT OF THE YEAR!!!! When the team is out of town nobody goes downtown to watch a game at the bar. A few good days aren't going to make up for the 350 days the place is a ghost town. The bar owner they trotted out has a place that is lucky to see about 8 people on an average day. The food sucks and the prices are crazy. It only stays in business because it is owned by a former Brown with a lot of money and he is willing to lose money to have his name up in lights.
The other places are owned by Russian and Albanian mobsters. The corner steakhouse is where politicians go to hand payoffs to construction boss bag men. The best Friday night may see ten patrons.
The MSM is always good for a laugh.
Just look at how "crowded" any baseball stadium is these days. For most people, their disposable income is disposed before they even get it.
My condolences, sir.
Him: "I work in downtown Cleveland"
Me: "I'm sorry?"
Him: "I said I work in downtown Cleveland"
Me: "I heard you, I'm just sorry you work in downtown cleveland!"
That joke never gets old
Aw, give the guy a break. He is proof that there is at least ONE job in downtown Cleveland.
OT but important -
Mortgage rates aren't coming down nearly as much as T's would indicate...they look to be decoupling (at least in the short term) from 10y T rates for a slew of reasons...really gotta make you question Operation Twist goals...
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/consumer_rates/228272.aspx
No worries , Mr. Mariani and Jean-Luc are on top of this . How long will retail customers in Belgium and Turkey support this game ? Good thing Wilbur Ross bought their crap insurance portfolio
Given all of this, it sems estrange that the markets are so under control, relatively speaking naturlich.
I will bet they jawbone it up a little for a few weeks, but eventually there won't be enough stupid people in the market.
People are really stupid. The ECB buys about twenty billion Euros in bonds and everybody is happy. How many billions are there in soon to be distressed bank and sovereign debt?
People will eventually look at the numbers and quit getting excited about a new drop of piss in the shithole.
i'm new to this collapse stuff, how can i buy puts on these dogs? can't seem to figure it out with my regular brokerage account.....how can you buy options on foreign exchanges?
Have you tried phoning Goldman Sachs?
:)
yeah but they can only help me buy calls......
I noticed that earlier.
That looks like shit.
Tyler, my friends at the Greek finance ministry are trying to get an explanation regarding the charts, but nothing happens when they click on "HELP" button. What gives?
God bless Bloomberg;. Reutersbis catching the gaff. MNI is as well!
Algos not willing to give up on 1150 yet!
But! BUT! BUT!!
Germany are SAVERS!! LOL!!
Savers, yes. Save us... no
Sinister is a yield on the ten year at a 60 year low. Did I hear that right?
Pardon my ignorance but how in the first paragraph and Bloomberg chart it states that they have 5.262 B Eur of debt maturing in September but in the second chart I see $8B US debt due.
Using a 1.40 EUR/USD exchange that that only puts the total debt due at $7.42B USD for September.
I must be missing something obvious but help please.
Slip of the tongue from TPTB. The figure is correct once you add in the Greek default. But you're not supposed to know that yet.
Please ignore the man behind the curtain.
And I don't think they can sell it off to Paribas like Fortis Bank last time around.
Fear is very hard to time. However I made all my money in bear markets. I just didn't realize it at the time.
tylers awfully quiet all of a sudden. must have cashed out some puts and went to scores.
I hope so.
Cuz the great philosopher Tom Petty said that even the losers get lucky some time.
One of the Tyler's is a misfit, but only misfits can be bold, courageous, and blaze a new trail, having few other options after the inevitable career setback.
I love you Tyler(s) as one misfit to another!
Ok I don't love the populist rabble rouser Tyler who doesn't seem to know much macroeconomic theory, Austrian or other wise, but I love the main one!
I'd like to be better versed in macroeconomic theory. But BFCS (Basic F Common Sense) seems to be working pretty well too. If I had to choose one to keep... Don't listen to him Ty2--books are for eating now anyway!
My thoughts exactly. :)
Obama, Europe, Greece, 9/11, NFL opening day.........could be an interesting and long 48 hours !
if dexia is tbtf then no problemo.
Lets buy options on those CDS, should make a great profit ;- )
Belgium has since more than 450 days no central government, although there is no lack at regional governments.
For sure, Dexia will solve the problem of 'Belgium' and accelarate the split.
SP 1150 is a joke
compared to the rest of the world we have at least 10% of a drop left...
which would be around ~1050...which is the number being thrown around
Oh man. I'm getting a sneaking suspcion that those french frog rebels couldn't get their hands on gaddaffi's gold. The gold sale is fake and france is the one fucked this weekend. I think all the rebels got was a gold scepter. LOL
Aww Tyler, don't leave out Canada. All the swollen heads north of the border need a good reality check as much as anyone else, maybe moreso.