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European Stocks On Verge Of 50%-Off Greek Light Special
It seems the clarion call for central bank intervention to save us all is growing louder as following Citigroup's imploring letter earlier in the week, SocGen has done its homework on the impact of a Greek exit from the Euro and finds Euro Stoxx could drop by 50% under a contagion scenario. They believe the reason why the eurozone market is holding up relatively well - despite the rising risk of a Greek exit - is that contagion has not really spread yet, which is then 'discounted' away based on expectations of a central bank put to save the world. In the case of a disorderly break-up (the only kind there can be realistically in our view), they expect eurozone profits to decline for two years, a rise in bond yields (raising cost of funds), a rising equity risk premium, and the implicit drop in P/E multiples. A Greek exit alone (with no contagion) would likely knock 10% off Euro Stoxx but the significant rise in correlations across the euro-zone suggests the idiosyncratic becomes systemic very rapidly.
European market ex-financials has held up relatively well...
but risk of contagion is dramatically high considering the correlation in the euro-zone...
In order to profile the impact of a Greek exit on the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 SocGen imputes:
- a profits growth decline for two years after restructuring as a result of lower consumption and fiscal tightening in countries remaining in the eurozone,
- euro depreciation vs the dollar,
- a rise in bond yields due to risk of default, partly offset by recession fears,
- a domino effect which is proportional to correlations we showed on the previous page,
- a rise in the equity risk premium.
Once the potential level of this year?s euro profits is recalculated using our top-down regression model, we input the result into an earnings yield equation to get the DJ Euro Stoxx 50?s sensitivity to both rates and profits. Should profits fall 20%-30% and yields widen 100bp-200bp, we find the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 could lose up to 50% of its value at 23% in the best case and 45% in the worst.
With a 50% drop possible and 10% probable if Greece leaves...
with various scenarios as follows:
Source: SocGen
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I think I'll just make it up as I go along...
Think of a number between 1 and 200 trillion. Double it. Multiply it by four. Take away the number you first thought of, and add five...
et voila, a 99.99999999% loss, or thereabouts. Piece of piss.
Now take this piece of paper I've just written, multiply by a reserve ratio of say, the first number you thought of and jackpot, you're well capitalised.
I too could be a central banker, if they could only afford me...
EUR/USD struggling.
DXY going higher.
QEx soon to come.
Get ready for the DXY to go a LOT higher before it goes lower. FED doesn't have enough political cover to prrrrriiiiiinnnnnttttt yet.
Don't sweat it, embrace it... PMs will go on sale one last time before QE^10th.
LowPro,
How much cover/pain do you think they will need?
DXY to 90 or maybe >82 for an extended time?
ST
Bingo. Wait and get long Gold again about 1,200ish. Then the "all in" printfest and Gold eventually does become a bubble a few years later.
and this is based on?
If the stock market's the pulse of American business this sucker's flat-lining and its butt needs a paddling.
No expert here, but part of my work involves guarding again linear thinking, my own in particular.
Agree the Euro should go to 1.20 per ZH simple comparison of ECB-Fed balance sheets.
And 1.16 looks reasonable, too, prior to a corrective rally.
However, given heavy Euro short positions, I wonder if they don't squeeze back to 1.29-1.32 area, prior to either of those lower targets being met.
The question then being, do that begin that from 1.25, or from 1.24ish...and if so, when? (that would imply 82.5 or 83, DX)
Dunno, just thinking aloud -- Euro should go to parity in the fullness of time, but the tactical
maneuvering capacity of the big movers is something I have learned to (grudgingly) respect.
forgot where I read/saw this .... but last year saw a very well-respected US economist state that the natural US$ value for Euro was $1.18 or so when it was still in high $1.30s+
Was tempted to place my first currency futures trade or find short euroETF ... should have .....
It's going around...that was an astute view alright
Trading-hedging is just like that..
As often as not, it's the the province of the 3 bitches, er witches: shoulda, woulda, coulda... :;)
Feels like shorts are getting out now.
European stocks are being listed on Groupon now.
"Your daily Athens deal..."
Thanks. That made me laugh in an otherwise crappy day.
Europe needs their own version of Facebook or they're doomed.
we have it, it's called Skype (much better than Flopbook if you think about it) only problem is global monopolists Microshite bought it and as with everything they touch it's going nowhere fast (see the spiders webs in Windows for further reference)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!1111
we could have a 50% off sale if the greeks discovered oil and gold, now, too, socGen...
this doesn't need contagion! it needs some more contango!
the Greeks did discover Gold and Oil, otherwise known to Greek socialists as the Euro Debt-Money Tree ...they've been living/sucking off it for 10 years (all good things come to an end)
how about telling us something we dont know??
European stocks have been "on the verge" for over 2 years now...
just fucking get it over with.
Quick please. Europe is almost closing for the long weekend and I cannot wait for that long!
It's not the fall that kills ya, but the sudden stop at the end.
Hey CD, sorry!
http://www.rt.com/news/greece-double-suicide-crisis-136/
any Greek politicians or bankers committed suicide yet for the national trainwreck they've created?
how about the socialist Popalotoffukups political family who've ruled Greeces decline into the sewer??
Nope.. enough said
Why aren't European stock markets dropping like a rock right now ... 1/2 hour 'til close before a 3 day weekend with scary headlines all over the newspapers ... I don't get it ...
Reality will be seen only when they want the coordinated collapse one morning.
SheepDog One...as you do not see printing as an option do you think that it is by design by TPTB will pull the plug on the market?
Bank stocks won't go less than zero imo.
I went to a 50% off sale once. All I found was more crap that was 50% cheaper.
Baseline Budgeting Makes Real Cuts Impossible in Washington
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2756858/posts
We are the world. We are phucked.
The worst is when you buy something at a 50% "discount" and the next week, it's at a 95% discount... In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "doh!!"
Seems like the most likely scenairo until the "BIG PRINT" comes to "save" the day...
Anyone want to know how it all ends?
Well if you liked it at 50% of you're going to love it at 95% off.....it's called averaging down. ;->
Does "Saving us All" involve giving more truckloads of money to the Central Bank Parasites?
that's the plan
Davos has 2 superb policy initiatives:
1. dig yourself deeper in doo/debt to solve the debt problem
2. attach enlarged doo/shit to taxpayers
Brilliant thinkers at Davos, they're not there just for the 5 Star luxury while Rome burns you know
Let the fucking system burn. We deserve the leaders we have. Apathy everywhere.
I remember when communes were all the rage in America. Looks like they're gonna be the rage again.
There are some roadmaps that can make heads and tails of this market. I have been following my friends service for a number of years and like echen's analysis. It is well worth it to get on the right side of the trade. Brings a unique ability to see the "right side of the tape" using propriety methods.
http://humblestudent777.blogspot.com/
Elliot Wave Loon Alert
beware the pattern recognition asylum escapees, they can't recognise the pattern of their never ending failures and locked-in lunacy
The domino-effect just needs God's middle finger to get things moving.
Sure everything is just rice paper thin illusion...but we got HIGH HOPES of 'QE-TheBigOne' which will surely be here any minute just as soon as they allow any bit of bad news thru which will never happen, judging by todays phony 'consumer confidence' type BS. Dont you go panic just because all the 1st class passengers are piling into lifeboats, just keep listening to that free music on the aft decks.
Chinese banks that just got licenses to operate in the US may have the ability to inject 10 Trillion dollars into the US economy by using their 1 Trillion in US Treasuries as base capital for fractional reserve lending. They could turn their 1 Trillion in promises in 10 Trillion of assets by buying US businesses and real estate, etc by utilizing our own fractional reserve ponzi scheme:
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/3798/additional-covert-qe-way
I have been surprised not to see any mention on ZH about this possibility so far...
lol, yes I'm sure they are in a rush to do that knowing the treatment that foreign companies get when a crisis comes around. It's called nationalization and countries much rather do it to a foreign firm so the citizens don't get upset than their own. China isn't so stupid that they would come in and try to corner the US by buying up all of its businesses because the US would just take them back for free after the Chinese invested all their capital in it. And US banks have plenty of ponzi capital already, there is no one good to lend to. Keep it moving, there's a reason this wasn't on ZH....
"May you need a clean up on Isle 5."
-An Irish to Greek curse.
Good point about the nationalization. What if the FED was 100% behind this plan because they get easing without a QE - and it keeps the Chinese from dumping their Treasuries? Another angle on easy money keeping the illusion rolling for few more years.
well ... tend to agree with you the PRC hesitant to 'buy Amerika' ... but then ... it is stunning to think that PRC can directly dialgoue with US Treasury about direct UST purchases (sales?) by-passing the primary market for everyone else. This is more than 'mechanical' ..... me cynically thinks
... or 10 Trillion in a European firesale after the Euro implodes.
Outside of a couple banks, things are looking pretty bullish then I guess
Meanwhile the unwinding of the carry trade for copper continues. Chinese speculators new asset? USD.
The DAX is down (from 7100 to 63++) over the past month. Greece already priced in.
Add in Spain (Savings Bank nationalised this morning with 28 Bn EUR loss).
Then JPM is 122 Bn USD down, far cry from first estimate of 2 Bn USD.
Friday night and it will be all right. The fun is in bonds, and the EUR USD, JPY, AUD and CDN hedges. Stocks come later.
There will be no Greek exit from the E.U. They may temporarily use a different currency, but that's the maximum extent of things. No nation will ever escape the European Union without shedding the blood of millions of its citizens to do so.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is no European Crisis other than what has been engineered by the central planners. This is not a meteor about to land on Europe, but an artificial crisis in an artificial system created by man and controlled by man. Therefore, it can be manipulated by powerful men to achieve their goals.
Their goal is a closer economic union amongst European states. Their goal is the eventual destruction of national sovereignty for each individual Europen state. This "crisis" has been engineered to achieve that goal.
http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/36496
They're meeting again in June to discuss not the breakup of the E.U., but further and more tightly binding it together.
"Proposals are expected to include boosting the paid-in capital of the European Investment Bank and plans for 'project bonds' underwritten by the EU budget to finance infrastructure.
The aim is to agree ideas that can be formally signed off at the next summit on June 28-29."
I doubt anything will happen. The only banker stupid enough to take a hit on this after 2 years of foot dragging is Jamie Dimon.