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Rumor Regurgitation Time: China To The Rescue... All Over Again

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In case one is wondering what lit a fire under the EURUSD and the ES' ass in the past 30 minutes, why it is the trusty old fall back - China, to which all algos respond every single time like stung donkeys as if on command. Because just as the EURUSD was about to retrace the lows as the realization that the EOD rumor was nothing but an infrared herring, something else had to step in an continue to rumor-based levitation. Sure enough, that something was the Chinese central bank.

  • CHINA PBOC'S ZHOU SAYS HE'S CONFIDENT EU WILL SOLVE CRISIS: MNI
  • CHINA PBOC'S ZHOU SAYS HE SUPPORTS EU, ECB MEASURES: MNI
  • PBOC'S ZHOU: CHINA WILL PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING EU DEBT CRISIS
  • CHINA PBOC GOVERNOR ZHOU SAYS HE HAS CONFIDENCE IN EURO: MNI

And that's all it took to life the ES by over 10 points in minutes.

Sure enough, it took the market less thatn 24 hours to forget this piece of bailout trivia, from Reuters:

The head of China's $410 billion sovereign wealth fund CIC brushed aside a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to buy European government debt, saying such investments were "difficult" for long-term investors.

 

In comments ahead of a China-EU summit starting on Tuesday, Lou Jiwei, chairman of China Investment Corp (CIC), said any fresh injection of funds into Europe would be in industrial and other real assets, not government bonds.

 

His comments struck a sharper tone than a commentary in the Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, which sought to reassure the European Union that China had no intention to "buy up Europe."

Or, heaven forbid, recall this piece from 36 hours ago, via the FT, confirming that China can barely bail out its banks, let alone focus on Europe:

China has instructed its banks to embark on a mammoth roll-over of loans to local governments, delaying the country’s reckoning with debts that have clouded its economic prospects.

 

China’s stimulus response to the global financial crisis saddled its provinces and cities with Rmb10.7tn ($1.7tn) in debts – about a quarter of the country’s output – and more than half those loans are scheduled to come due over the next three years.

 

Since the principal on many of the loans is not repayable, banks have started extending maturities for local governments to avoid a wave of defaults, bankers and analysts familiar with the matter told the Financial Times. One person briefed on the plan said in some cases the maturities would be extended by as much as four years.

 

While some analysts have warned that many loans will still go bad and that a roll-over only postpones the problem, government advisers believe that it will give Beijing time to find a more permanent solution to its debt troubles.

 

“An appropriate maturity extension is in the banks’ interest,” said Fan Jianping, chief economist of the State Information Centre, a think-tank within the government’s powerful planning agency.

Lunatics, meet asylum control room. What is funniest, however, is that everyone forgets that Germany, which saw an implosion in ts industrial production last night, now desperately needs a weak Euro at all costs, even if that means a perpetual crisis in Greece, and pledges of no bailout from China. But then again, "the market" does what SkyNet wants. And what SkyNet wants, only SkyNet comprehends.

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Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:49 | Link to Comment RobotTrader
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Rosie strikes again.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:02 | Link to Comment Xibalba
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This is Chinese for SOLD TO YOU

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:08 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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All your industrials are belong to us, roundeye!

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:15 | Link to Comment Manthong
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Whew..

Thank goodness it really happened..

                     I thought it was the drugs.

And.. "algos respond every single time like stung donkeys as if on command"

I don't think any "IF" is involved.

 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:10 | Link to Comment TruthInSunshine
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RoboTard has a raging boner because the Nikkei is only 94% off its 1989 high in real terms (75% in nominal terms), and U.S. indexes are down about 55% from their early 2000 highs in real $$$ terms, and are actually near their nominal levels (if one discounts the fact that the indexes have seen many former ticker symbols crash and burn, and go bye-bye, with the charlatans of the indexes rotating new ticker symbols in for those of the departed; which makes it an even sicker scam).

A system built on a foundation of the [quick]sand of CONfidence.

That & central bank interventionism (printing fiat in large batches rendering each additional unit of fiat more marginal than the last; aka diminishing returns) is all that's keeping the Ponzi on life support.

And people are waking up to the con in the words of CONfidence in larger numbers and more quickly (thanks to the internet, where they can get exposure to radical ideas such as going deeper into debt doesn't lead to resolution of debt cancer) than ever before, so let's see how long the fractional reserve charlatans can run with it, now.

The more that Asians buy into the rally-on-the-rumor pops, the more confident I am that the inevitable meltdown is closer at hand. Asians are hands down the worst investors in the world, and prolific gamblers on top of that (although Asians crush American, British and just about any 'westerners' when it comes to saving vs. becoming debt slaves, so I won't deny them that far better cultural habit vs our prolific, cancerous culture of debt serfdom).

Nikkei syndrome, bitches.

[And if Siegel came out of his Ivory Tower bunker to speak of unicorns and rainbows, and spew his 'stocks are the best asset class over the long run' bullshit, even as bonds have kicked the ass of equities to the curb not just for 10, or 20, or 30, but for 40 years now....damn, I am going to love the crash.]

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:39 | Link to Comment i root for that...
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Tyler and the rest of losers on this site - do all the bitching you want now cuz tomorrow the china/eu pack is going to run you over - market is going to the moon

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:01 | Link to Comment TruthInSunshine
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2000 called you a bitch. 2007 said your vagina hurts. You're going to be bleeding of the rectum soon, Wiesenthal.

This vaporware illusion of a market is the historical rhyme to 1932, only now investors in equities will be four times bitten in 11 years (and thrice bitten in 3 years).

Stick a fork in the Ponzi. If the whores on Wall Street aren't dumping with both hands, I'll buy you an oil painting of Jim Cramer or Jesse Livermore (your option).

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:04 | Link to Comment GernB
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What part of "rumor" is hard to understand.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:41 | Link to Comment spartan speculation
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Tyler you could also add this to your article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/asian-stocks-rise-as-greek-bailout-progress-yen-s-slide-boost-outlook.html  notice the headline

Asian Stocks Rise on China Pledge to Help Europe

 . then inside this artilce 

 

 

China’s Support

Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index advanced 0.5 percent today. The index lost 0.1 percent in New York yesterday, paring an earlier decline of as much as 0.8 percent as U.S. retail sales trailed estimates after sales of automobiles unexpectedly declined.

Elpida slumped 14 percent to 322 yen after saying it saw “uncertainty” over remaining in business because it hasn’t secured financing. The company, which reported 311.7 billion yen revenue in the 12 months to Dec. 31, has 210.8 billion yen of debt maturing this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares earlier touched their lowest level since at least November 2004.

South Korean and Taiwanese competitors rose. Samsung Electronics (005930), South Korea’s biggest exporter of consumer electronics, rose 5.2 percent to 1.14 million won. Samsung may separate its liquid-crystal-display business, the Electronics Times reported today. Hynix Semiconductor, a maker of semiconductors such as dynamic random access memory, gained 5.3 percent to 29,000 won.

 

 

Where in this entire article is there anything that china is pledging anything to support the EU crisis ?? WTF is going on in these markets ??? how can we even call these markets anymore. 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:13 | Link to Comment GernB
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You can even read the Market Watch report and read the actual reporting on what was said and it was not that they intended to invest in Europe, but that they support the measures the Eurozone has taken.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:52 | Link to Comment LongSoupLine
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More Sun Tzu...

 

All war is based on deception

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:14 | Link to Comment ACP
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Or just an excuse for Madman Bernanke to ramp es up to 1355.75, which......oh...he just did!

So will be Wednesday be the pre-planned peak at 1374 + or -?

Those "in the know" BOT at 1530 EST, those outside the loop started buying at 2115 EST.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:22 | Link to Comment Cdad
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Again...it is just painful to watch this market.  It is sooooo obviously just a mainpulated bucket of lark's vomit at this point.  How desperate is Larry "100% in equities" Fink if this kind of sheer stupidity is holding up his now bloated book of equities that every Average Joe in the nation has put back to him? 

The market is gone.  There are only ones and zeros...and I don't think Americans even give a shit about the stock market, anymore.  Just sad, really.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:47 | Link to Comment John Law Lives
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"It is sooooo obviously just a mainpulated bucket of lark's vomit at this point."

Nice one.  That is a colorful (and accurate) description.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:53 | Link to Comment Cdad
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Bullish...buckets!

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:45 | Link to Comment Isherwood
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Lark's vomit is priced in

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:08 | Link to Comment Dead Canary
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Crunchy frog as well.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:06 | Link to Comment candyman
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where you been Cdad. I like your stuff.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:09 | Link to Comment resurger
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WOW!

ASIA IS UP BY 3%

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:53 | Link to Comment bankruptcylawyer
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sun tzu was a total pedophile.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:06 | Link to Comment vast-dom
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ASIAN MARKETS PICK UP STEAM ON SHIT FUMES AND RUMORS

LET THE SINKHOLE TANK ALREADY

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:54 | Link to Comment trade the day
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imagine what will happen to the markets when they hear that whitney houston died. 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:54 | Link to Comment lotsoffun
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or whoopie.  or oprah?

i mean really  - i'm not sure elvis or marilyn are really dead either.

it makes perfect sense that china will buy ecb and ust bonds.  forever.

 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:55 | Link to Comment Wipeout2097
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ZH parroting British media again...

 

 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:55 | Link to Comment Bear
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24/7 Are we now at that the cliff's edge or at the foot of the mountain ... time for a few straddles

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:55 | Link to Comment Bud Denton
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China is going to save everyone.  That is because they get rich selling to everyone.  So they have lots of money.

No, they do not need for their customers like Europe to have money to buy Chinese stuff.  They can loan them the money to buy the stuff--you know, give it to them on credit.  Forever.  The obamahitler says so, and he would never lie.

It is boorish to suggest that a Hitler is a Hitler.  The Obamahitler is different.

This time is different.

Pass the Kool-aid.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:55 | Link to Comment Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Shirakawa loves playing stocks.  Look at Japan go!

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:59 | Link to Comment bobola
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Don't forget to hit robo's red G spot before you comment.

Maybe the EU tells China 'Buy our bonds or we quit buying your antifreeze tainted milk'.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 22:59 | Link to Comment fonzannoon
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with all due respect earlier it was a reuters article that the greek guy to be said he would sign a document. Now it is China rumors. I think the explanation of the last 30 minutes today is a lot simplier. The market is not allowed to close with negative momentum under any circumstances from here on out. It could possible spark an asia selloff sparking a european sell off. The market under certain circumstances may be allowed to be down for the day but closing momentum has to be positive.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:07 | Link to Comment Global Hunter
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ya as I allude to below they can play the "china to the rescue card in the pm" and then in the am europe won't have the paperwork ready for the Chinese and then next pm China agree to terms" but in the am the Finns show up to throw a wrench in the plans and on and on and on and on

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:27 | Link to Comment Cdad
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You are both morons if you really think this kind of "news" is going to cause real capital to move into markets.  This is options junkie stuff.  This is crooked and complicit market maker stuff.  This is market credibility destroying stuff that is not serving the long side of the market.

Get real.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:56 | Link to Comment fonzannoon
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You just made my point if you read what I wrote.

Get lost

 

 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:12 | Link to Comment matrix2012
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"real capital" may not move in...

but watch, there are still many passionate sheeples to harvest...  errrgh

 

Faux news and all the trumpets still get lot of audiences dont they?

 

Get the reality straight

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:10 | Link to Comment candyman
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geesh!

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:13 | Link to Comment Randall Cabot
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Good observation. Same pattern with Europe, it nearly always gets viagra'd in the last 15 minutes too so that closing momo is positive to calm the US markets. I wish I knew this a few weeks ago!

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:15 | Link to Comment Schmuck Raker
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Maybe the German and EZ GDP numbers are going to be atrocious so they're doubling up on the rumors tonight.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:00 | Link to Comment junkyardjack
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Well the rich in China are definitely looking for ways to get their capital out of their own shit hole so they can flee the sinking ship.  What better than a bail out to exchange some currency and then rip it back out once you're on your life boat out of China. Even if they lose a little on the trade, who cares the money was stolen anyway

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:00 | Link to Comment frostfan
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The Chinese are way too busy watching Jeremy Lin to deal with these European jokers.

LINSANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:00 | Link to Comment Park city skier
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congress-gets-deal-on-payroll-tax-doc-f...

 

I think ES move was due to pay roll tax cut deal, not china

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:11 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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Did you e-mail the White House and tell 'em with $40 you can save the market?

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:18 | Link to Comment Central Bankster
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He's likely correct.  Time stamp on the marketwatch article is 9:23 which coincides perfectly with the spike in the futures contracts.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:01 | Link to Comment jomama
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i hate it when i hit that save button twice, too.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:03 | Link to Comment Global Hunter
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The ECB should probably be able to get the proper paperwork to the Chinese by about 2027 or at least come to an agreement by then.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 04:31 | Link to Comment matrix2012
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europa should instead whisper persuasively to china "buy our bonds, now!" or "we gonna loot n plunder you as in 1900" or sell you hopium...your call!

eight-nation alliance :D

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:05 | Link to Comment Martial
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I heard it was Botswana. This is official. Botswana is the new China. We are saved. Yay.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:05 | Link to Comment Father Lucifer
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Thanks for the info Tyler.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:07 | Link to Comment monopoly
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This is madness. And some call this "investing". What a waste.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:07 | Link to Comment YesWeKahn
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How does Bernanke think of AAPL being a trillion $ company?

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:09 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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the subject of China is BY FAR the Tylers' biggest "re-hypothekarokeness" problem. Chimerica is anything but. The run rates on these Chinese factories that will be necessary in order to remain profitable are simply staggering. Almost as staggering as the scales of efficiency and quality control that they have attained. Think of "the Detroit model" gone global. I have NO CLUE how it works...but that trade surplus don't lie. To me what sums the the ENTIRE story about.."China"...is "the new guy playing for the New York Knickerbockers." He sits on the bench, and sits on the bench, and sits on the bench...and "then plays and the Dolan family makes a billion dollars." I'm trying to imagine that happening in the trucking industry but somehow...i can't. Anywho...here's my view of how "the deal went down from 2008 to today":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FDhGS4EJS8M

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:47 | Link to Comment ebworthen
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China has hundreds of millions (billions) of citizens who are slaves to the PLA (Peoples "Liberation" Army - an oxymoron if ever there was one).

ZERO property rights, individual rights, labor laws, etc., etc.

You make the local party chief happy or you lose everything, get raped, or die.

This "inconvenient" truth has fueled Apple's rise, along with the offshoring of countless Western jobs.

Somehow, the slavery of billions will lead the world to a "better place".

Meanwhile, in Oz, the former citizens of U.S.S.A. are delegated to joining the skullduggery, milking the system, or going "off-grid" and being labeled as domestic terrorists.

Global Winter in the Kondratieff sense, but in the delusion of memories past and forgotten morals and principles it is spackled as "green shoots" and "recovery" bullshit over the crack on the ass of a dying republic and over Human Liberty.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:53 | Link to Comment matrix2012
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i think in oz the lowy rats are setting up new nest.. from where they're readying a new plague to the entire globe (again), asia in particular... http://bit.ly/yzObMD

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:53 | Link to Comment ebworthen
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Must be a PLA thumbs down.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:12 | Link to Comment ekm
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So let me understand this one.

Few hundred poor chinese will kill or try to kill themselves due to slavery working conditions today. And these poor souls would HELP westeners to retire at 60.

I WANT TO CRY!

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:22 | Link to Comment Schmuck Raker
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Stop crying. It's just what Jesus would do.

I'm proud of 'em.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:33 | Link to Comment ekm
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This is one case I was actually very serious. I have seen poverty with my own eyes somewhere.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 15:23 | Link to Comment Schmuck Raker
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No offense meant ekm. I've seen poverty too. I choose laughter over sorrow.

I don't think my comment detracted in any way from yours.

But, if you think it has then I apologize.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:13 | Link to Comment JW n FL
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Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:25 | Link to Comment Chris88
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Hahaha, a documentary about how the government is having a difficult time stealing more property from people at the point of a gun.  Oh cry me a fucking river.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:13 | Link to Comment Boilermaker
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Has the reached MAXIMUM FUCKING GAYNESS YET?!?

 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:40 | Link to Comment imamonkey
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Not yet, maybe after next week's, all new GLEE ...

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:14 | Link to Comment chump666
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hahahahahahaha oh man...China. 

Diversion huh?  China is falling apart.  Indust activity is being crunched to hell. You aint saving anybody.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:24 | Link to Comment ekm
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So right.

The only thing they're trying to do is talk up the Euro so Yuan remains cheap. 

China exports more to EU than to USA. If Euro cheapens, their exports are screwed much more than they already are.

Hence, TALK EURO UP AT ANY TIME.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:29 | Link to Comment Mr Lennon Hendrix
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The only thing they're trying to do is talk up the Euro so Yuan remains cheap. 

I had he same thought.  They are pretending to call Merkle's bluff.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:36 | Link to Comment ekm
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So correct.

Germany and China are twins. China over-produces cheap stuff, lends to westerners so westerners by chinese stuffl.

Germany over -produces Siemens turbines, Volkswagens, Leopard tanks, lends money to Greece at the condition that greece buys only german stuff.

I blame China and Germany.

http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/leo2.htm

 

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:38 | Link to Comment ekm
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Have you disabled the up and down arrows? How do you do that?

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:53 | Link to Comment ekm
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Somehow it doesn't work all the time on my computer on your tag. It could be a problem with Chrome.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:00 | Link to Comment ekm
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I tried it on Internet Explorer and worked. It's a problem with Chrome. I use only Chrome.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:48 | Link to Comment chump666
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Correct, it's all a game.  The USD tanked also against the CNY, a big problem for China is companies hedging with USDs (off setting Chinese inflation) and selling Yuan.   But still Aussie markets (best bell-weather for China) kinda didn't by the BS from the PBOC

If the central bank cartel/s and the ball-less governments of the world only have words left...they are f*cking worried.  Good.  They are a bunch of pitiful losers trying to game the market.  Makes Wall Street look good by comparison.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:50 | Link to Comment chump666
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except the AUD hahaha...poor f*ckers.  HFTs sending it back to 1.08 and sending Australia to the wall.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:55 | Link to Comment ekm
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I don't follow AUD. I trust what you're saying.

My view of Australia is basically a chinese autonomous province that is used to extract minerals from.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:52 | Link to Comment ekm
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That's right, that's all they have left. Or print yuans left right and center and risk a "chinese spring"

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:56 | Link to Comment chump666
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I'd bet that China writes down 3/4 of it's property market this year, inflation does the rest.

They are done.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:07 | Link to Comment ekm
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There is one that I've learned the very hard way by losing some money with options.

Events cannot be timed. I totally agree with the observation, but not sure about the time.

Same thing with Meredith Whitney. She's brilliant, but she put a time on that brillian forecast. That's what I call "prophetic raptures" from Old Testament. Who plays the prophet, usually fails and only luck (or God I'd say) would help.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:51 | Link to Comment chump666
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I agree.  But our markets are topped, stuck in a range with volume non existent.  The timing is setting a short/long spread or put/call.  At this point now with Feb profit taking kicking in, it's now a short markets i.e selling.  The problem is the damn HFT momos trading on news headlines.  But they are adding to the building volatility - so a good option trading will clue onto this market (if you are trading indexes).

As for China, everyone knows they are bullsh*tting the market.  So we look at electricity use, concrete use, steel over-capacity and their banks. The Australian market is a great bell-weather and it's looking unhealthy re: ASX200.  The AUD has been set upon by HFTs and big players chasing the yield, that and inflation is haunting Asia/Australia

My guess China could really go bad next 3 to 6mths, they have sub-prime issues there already one city that has been bailed out Wenshou (spelling?).  But yeah hard to time, but could be close.  As for market prophets?  Just your gut instinct.

As for god.  Thankfully Zero Hedge exists.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:15 | Link to Comment Let them eat iPads
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Fuck China.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:22 | Link to Comment Arkaenun
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The first thing I thought of when I read your post was

Chuck Fina.

Perhaps he could play the role of US Embassador to China in the cast of idiots when this whole debacle is satirized.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:19 | Link to Comment chump666
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Well done you crazy Chinese you just sent the HFTs sucking up the futures .

You idiots.  I hope oil inflation wipes you off the map. 

Asia sells into the close, ES should go neg. 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:16 | Link to Comment candyman
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refreshing , where did you come form?

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:21 | Link to Comment ebworthen
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Skynet!?!?

Skynet?!?!

Look closely, my etching says "Made in China":

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kryd2j7ygA1qa7qbyo1_500.jpg

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:22 | Link to Comment Arkaenun
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.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:27 | Link to Comment navy62802
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We're all fucked. Algos were not constructed to accept that statement as valid.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:34 | Link to Comment imamonkey
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Greece & Germany should add Mandarin to the curriculum .. they (China) ain't helping because we're all human, hahaha ... I'm so scared

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:37 | Link to Comment palmereldritch
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HOoEoOo0L0Oo0P0oO0o0oOoMoOoE0oOoO0oOOI’om0OBo0L0OOOoBB0oO0IOo0NOo0G0O!!o0

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:39 | Link to Comment Everyman
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These assfucks are just incorrigible!  Futures are up 66 points???  Jesus, this entire market is F*U*C*K*E*D, entirely FUCKED.  The all need to be taken out and shot in the lungs and allowed to bleed out, or drug on a road with glass shards.

 

Whoever is doing this needs to be fucking piked.  This is getting so fucking ridiculous.  Rumor after rumor and each successive rumor is all that much more incredibly, ignorantly fantastic!

 

I want a market back that I can "invest" in.  This is no longer a market is this patently pathetic!!!!!

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:55 | Link to Comment Central Bankster
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The central planners know better than you, just accept it.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:57 | Link to Comment Atomizer
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Everyman approaches desk..

Desk Clerk: Good afternoon, how can I help you?

Everyman: I want to get back into this market and begin to invest again.

Desk Clerk: Please show me your ticket so we can begin the process.

Everyman: What ticket? I don't have a ticket.

Desk Clerk: Without your ticket, we cannot begin your investment process, NEXT!

Everyman: @#&^%@#$%&

We are at the peak of fraud, just wait it out for a bit longer.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:15 | Link to Comment Everyman
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Well done Atomizer!  You left out the part where I shoot the desk clerk in the face, LOL.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:41 | Link to Comment Atomizer
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A "city broken down" is one whose wall is "broken," 2 Chronicles 32:5, whether it has met with breaches , or is wholly broken; in the former case also the city is incapable of being defended, and it is all one as if it had no wall. Such a city is like a man "who hath no control over his own spirit" (for the accentuation of the Heb. words here, vid., Thorath Emeth, p. 10): cujus spiritui nulla cohibitio (Schultens), i.e., qui animum suum cohibere non potest (Fleischer: to press together, to oppress, and thereby to hold back). As such a city can be plundered and laid waste without trouble, so a man who knows not to hold in check his desires and affections is in constant danger of blindly following the impulse of his unbridled sensuality, and of being hurried forward to outbreaks of passion, and thus of bringing unhappiness upon himself. There are sensual passions (e.g., drunkenness), intellectual (e.g., ambition), mingled (e.g., revenge); but in all of these a false ego rules, which, instead of being held down by the true and better ego, rises to unbounded supremacy. 

(Note: Vid., Drbal's Empirische Psychologie, 137.)

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:45 | Link to Comment ekm
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I am impressed.

One thing that few people understand is that finance is not just about numbers.

Finance is about, culture, psychology, psychiatry, health, mentality and above all, above all, military goals.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:01 | Link to Comment palmereldritch
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:14 | Link to Comment ekm
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Thx a lot. I bookmarked that shit because I got to go to sleep now

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:46 | Link to Comment John Law Lives
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It is amazing.  These sick economies don't actually have to create good (and sustainable) jobs and report strong macroeconomic data month after month.  All it takes is rumors of bailouts to beget repeatable rips is stock prices.  Truly amazing...

100% Fvcked up beyond all recognition (FUBAR).

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:49 | Link to Comment ekm
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Sir

Why do people fall for this "sustainable" thing. Nothing is sustainable.

We all get told about "growth". Apart from penises, how can everything be growing all the time?

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:56 | Link to Comment John Law Lives
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I used the term "sustainable" re. jobs to distinguish from jobs that are created on a temporary basis (e.g. only during the holiday season with no intention of full-time employment thereafter).

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:16 | Link to Comment palmereldritch
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Careful.  Danger words: "sustainable", "growth"..."smart growth"! LOL

But seriously, the programs documented by Rosa in this link are fucking dangerous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEHWsdimVO4

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:10 | Link to Comment ekm
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My bad. I digress.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:50 | Link to Comment RobotTrader
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All you guys are severely underestimating the Power of Infinite Fiat.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:55 | Link to Comment chump666
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shows us the money 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:03 | Link to Comment Atomizer
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RobotTrader.. I will not drop the f bomb on you tonight. Kindly explain to all ZH member's where the money comes from. Your quote below

Power of Infinite Fiat

 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:40 | Link to Comment Cdad
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All you guys are severely underestimating the Power of Infinite Fiat.

Huh?  Already "priced in" Robo.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:19 | Link to Comment 1fortheroad
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Fucking A,  Bravo Robo

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:50 | Link to Comment ISEEIT
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Let 'em play.

I learned a long time ago to tighten up and let these clowns run. The downside will be back and that is a safe bet. Trying to time the games is just casino B.S..

I'll just wait. Short @ 131.00 works just fine.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:54 | Link to Comment surf0766
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Imagine when the rumors don't hold anymore.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:00 | Link to Comment Conman
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Dont worry, Greece will come out before open and screw up the ramp up. only to be saved again before market close tomorrow. rinse repeat.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:07 | Link to Comment vote_libertaria...
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Read those news bulletins above again.  No where does China say 'we will by these crappy bonds'.

They say they 'support' the ECB and the EU in their efforts.

That could be 'moral' support.

That could mean 'we will buy the Greek power plants at a discount later this year'.

 

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:08 | Link to Comment Yen Cross
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 Check this read out from Seeking Alpha. Baltic Dry related. ZH readers should like it, after all this B.S. buying in Asia.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:55 | Link to Comment chump666
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Yen you must be happy on the Yen trade?

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:15 | Link to Comment Father Lucifer
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Bloomberg headline

Euro Rises to Two-Month High Versus Yen as China Pledges Debt Crisis Help

BULLSHIT

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:17 | Link to Comment Tsar Pointless
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Gosh-darnit! I'm watching "Dance Moms". Why would you try to ruin my Valentine's Day with such Negative Nelly reactions to a positive feel-good news story?

I hope Jimmy Fallon is as good tonight as he was last night.

S&P 2000, bitchez!

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:24 | Link to Comment Evil Bugeyes
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Mmmm... regurgitated rumors.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:42 | Link to Comment CvlDobd
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I consider my main tools, trend following tools. So why do I hate this market so much?

 

I guess I just hate these shit internals, low vol, etc.

 

Fuck this, I have to get out of this industry before the laws of nature catch up with the powers that be.

 

This can't go on forever! Can it? I mean it has to go down a little eventually. Right?

 

Fuck it, everything it bullish. Low volume? bullish! Low short interest? bullish! Flash crash on the VIX two days ago and a halt in oil? bullish Shit earnings season? bullish! Don't even get me started on Apple (which I must really say is bullish)

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:23 | Link to Comment alien-IQ
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With everything that's going on in the world and the condition of the global economy, the fact that the SPX has had only ONE "red" week in 2012 is amazing...it's even more amazing when you consider that week was down a whopping 2 points.

The only thing I've traded this year has been Forex and a couple of small options trades. Haven't touched a stock or Futures contract. When I saw the DOW gap up 200+ points the first trading day of the year, I just stepped away. All I could think was "Ok, so it's gonna be like that huh?"

This "market" is just ridiculous.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:43 | Link to Comment Clowns on Acid
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Well Eurpoe is fecked, the US is fecked and won't give anymore money to the IMF....so what the feck...hav3e a visitng diplo from  China...promise them the world...and then leak to MSM that Choina will bail out everybody.

 

Feckin' brilliant....a Communist Gov't bailing out the "democracies" of the West...no problem there...like wee Jimmy Cramerr says every night...Buy, Buy, Buy !

He is a cwunt.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:13 | Link to Comment Tense INDIAN
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its not the china rumour...AUD\USD touched at perfect channel support and bounced....SnP touched rising wedge support and bounced....dollar hit resistance and may be is in process of formation right shoulder of an INVERSE head and shoulders....wolfe wave targets in USD shows lower targets and WW in UAD\USD shows higher targets ....so BUY SnP for atleast a day or 2

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:22 | Link to Comment Conman
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Right, because greek news has done nothing for moving the markets lately. Your charts and crap means nothing in the NEW market run on rumors. Get real.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:34 | Link to Comment alien-IQ
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Check the time stamp on that "news", then look at a chart and see what happened at precisely that time.

Technicals had absolutely nothing to do with it. In fact, quite the opposite. The USD had broken the 79.50 resistance and EUR/USD broke well below 1.32 support and the /ES below the 1340 support when the 3:30 rumor mill went to work.

Than in the evening, as the EUR/USD and /Es were fading again and the USD hit 79.50 on the nose, the "China" rumor hit and sent everything flying and the USd falling.

The only techincals I can see here is that someone seems to break a "bullish" rumor every time certain supports and resistances are hit.

The timing of these rumors are just too perfect to be coincidence.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:27 | Link to Comment q99x2
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So Greece is going to buy Chinese submarines.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:44 | Link to Comment AldoHux_IV
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A central bank by any other name is still the same corrupt and moronic ways-- be it PBoC, BOJ, ECB or FED.

China has bigger problems than just real estate and their banks, they would be wise to focus on these issues with successful solutions (as sucessful as central planning can go) but it seems they have imported some of the same bullshit policymaking and trilateral commission like moronic statements that in the end do nothing but rape and pillage sovereigns.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 01:50 | Link to Comment Gubbmint Cheese
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So the markets are up on rumors of a deus ex maCHINA? Oh the irony...

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:27 | Link to Comment devo
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Wow, futures up another 72 points. Talk about overbought. Time to short using options or the Vix.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 02:31 | Link to Comment spencer
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Damn, I had to google "regurgitation", you guys are good. -)

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 04:32 | Link to Comment Sandmann
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So how does it work then ? The Western policymaker steps off the plane in peking and orders from the menu by numbers and the Little Chinaman rushes off to bring his Laowai Master a trunkload of gold doubloons.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 04:46 | Link to Comment GernB
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Here is the quote from a Market Watch article:

Speaking at an exhibition on the euro in Beijing with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, the Chinese central bank governor said he fully supports monetary measures taken by the European Central Bank during the crisis.

and

China plans to streamline and expand investment in Europe, he said.

Neither of these two statements indicates a willingness to invest in the sovergn debt of Europe. The first is support for the measures Eurozone leaders have already taken. The latter could be investment in Anheuser-Busch for all we know, since it isn't specific about what kind of investment and where in Europe.

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 05:19 | Link to Comment matrix2012
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from Agence France-Presse....

 

AFP Eurozone delays Greek bailout as China pledges support

BRUSSELS, Feb 15, 2012 (AFP) 

The eurozone gave Greece a new ultimatum and delayed a decision on a debt rescue, but China expressed support for the euro pushing up stock markets on Wednesday.

The ministers called off a meeting on the rescue to avert imminent default for Greece complaining that Athens still had not fulfilled two vital conditions, with time running out for a debt restructuring.

China's top central banker meanwhile said in Beijing that the Asian giant would help Europe by continuing to buy eurozone government debt.

The eurozone put their approval of new bailout on hold late Tuesday after Greece was still at pains to come up with an extra 325 million euros ($425 million) in budget cuts.

Eurozone leaders are also demanding written pledges from Greek politicians, who face a likely snap vote in April, that all austerity measures promised to EU and IMF creditors will be implemented no matter the electoral outcome.

"I did not yet receive the required political assurances from the leaders of the Greek coalition parties on the implementation of the programme," Luxembourg Prime Minister and head of the group of eurozone finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement.

With the delay, previously scheduled talks in Brussels on Monday become the new deadline though government sources said that Greece will put down its assurances in a letter by Wednesday.

Global markets rose in Asia and at opening in Europe encouraged by the reassurances from China.

Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan repeated remarks by Premier Wen Jiabao that China was ready to get more involved in efforts to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, which is hurting demand for its exports.

"As Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday at the China-EU summit, China will... continue to invest in European government bonds and will continue... to get more involved in solving the European debt crisis," Zhou said.

Wen had told EU president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso that China was ready to increase its participation in the effort.

Greece desperately needs the 230-billion-euro rescue package -- 130 billion euros in fresh loans and a 100-billion-euro write down on privately-held bonds -- to avoid defaulting on 14.5 billion euros in debt owed on March 20.

A government source, after a long cabinet meeting on Tuesday, said Prime Minister Lucas Papademos would announce how he plans to come up with the 325 million euros "in the coming days."  

"The steps to take in the coming days and weeks are numerous and crucial" and will demand "an enormous and constant effort by the government," Papademos warned his ministers.

According to Greek media, part of the savings will come from a 10-percent reduction in salaries of government workers, such as military personnel, police, judges and diplomats, along with cuts in ministries budgets, including that of defence.

The eurozone wants to ensure that the bailout deals will drastically reduce Greece's debt burden, from 160 percent of gross domestic product to 120 percent in 2020.

The enormous problems confronting Greece were illustrated by new data showing that the economy, in recession for a fifth year, shrank by 7.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared with the same period a year earlier.

The Greek parliament approved 3.2 billion euros in cuts on Sunday despite protests and riots in the streets of Athens, as Greek workers were hit by a 22-percent cut in the minimum wage.

Other hurdles remain before Greece can secure bailout funds as the German and Dutch parliaments separately need to approve it, with Berlin's vote scheduled for February 27.

Europe was also looking for outside help to resolve the debt crisis.

 

BULLISH NEWS every where!!

 

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