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Spain-AAA Spread Just Broke 450 bps: LCH Margin Hike Alert

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Why is 450 bps important? That is the threshold (as explained before here and here) beyond which LCH goes all medieval on one's bond holdings.

Either the ECB gets involved here, and fast, and activates the SMP emergency bid, or else the central bank is sending a very loud signal to the country which is now betting Draghi will keep quiet as he accepts Spanish bonds in repo pledged by Bankia.

A signal which is bad to quite bad for those in the cheap seats.

 

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Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:15 | 2468800 LeonardoFibonacci
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Can you say 'buenas noches'?  Sure you can!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:28 | 2468821 Peter Pan
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Maybe ADIOS AMIGOS would be more appropriate.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:45 | 2468865 ThirdWorldDude
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A Spaniard's response is De Puta Madre!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:12 | 2469122 hedgehog9999
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That's more Mexican, maybe MIARDA!!! o A LA VERGA!!!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:21 | 2469294 Manthong
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bonos tostados?

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:45 | 2468866 Alex Lionson
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... or Hasta la Vista, Baby

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:21 | 2468810 Matt
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Possible zombie outbreak alert. Naked man was eating the face off another man, failed to respond to police, was shot, kept eating the man's face, police officer shoots him several more times. Police theorize it was "cocaine psychosis".

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2818832/naked-man-shot-killed-on-macarthur.html

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:28 | 2468822 repete
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and a whole new visual is created for the term "saving face"

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:31 | 2468829 slackrabbit
Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:43 | 2468855 Elwood P Suggins
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Maybe he was just hungry.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 09:49 | 2469061 living on the edge
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Sounds like another police murder. Glad I left florida.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:35 | 2469192 jeff montanye
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the guy whose face was being eaten might have another perspective.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:11 | 2469124 WAMO556
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Fuck that!!! First case of ZOMBIES!!!!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:23 | 2468813 Non Passaran
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Ah, great news!.

Together with the superoptimistic Greek polls, that explains today's surge of stock market indexes EU-wide.

We've just touched the bottom, I'm going all in!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:31 | 2468830 dannyboy
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Pledgable collateral for repo. The ECB truely is outdoing themselves here, you could make a halarious analogy to what is being pledged, but Spanish Sov's are funny enough themselves.

The drain circling is beginning to get alot faster.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:32 | 2468831 mrkolice
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Chef: Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?
Soldier: So we don't get our balls blown off.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:33 | 2468832 Snakeeyes
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Scary, isn't it? That Spanish housing bubble is killing their banks AND economy.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/another-day-on-the-med-greece-improves-spain-and-bankia-slide/

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:33 | 2468834 Alien Harvest
Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:54 | 2468905 Conman
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Why bother with the farce, just have the ECB back up the trucks with sacks of euros to bankia's door. At least Europe will feel loss buttraped if it's directly to their face.

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:59 | 2468929 lizzy36
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Tyler, you worry too much.

This is BULLISH.

The 4th largest contributor/guarantor to the EFSF is days away from hitting up the same EFSF for a bailout. 

But that ring fenced fire wall thingy is in place so nothing to see here. And in the worst case scenerio we can all fall back on the ECB - Zeeee price stability.

#btfd!!

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 09:43 | 2469046 StychoKiller
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That ring fence looks remarkably like a Mobius strip...

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 15:16 | 2469915 WmMcK
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Can I have that with a (half) twist?

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 09:22 | 2468994 Let The Wurlitz...
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This is great if you are short Spains 10 yr.  Every cloud has a silver lining.

 

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