Showing posts with label Euro area bonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro area bonds. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

29/12/15: There Are Two Ways 2016 Can Play Out for Euro Area Bonds

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With the pause in ECB QE over the holidays season, bond markets have been largely looking forward to 2016 and counting the blessings of th...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

12/5/15: European Bonds are Set to Continue their Decline

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Things are getting ugly in the bond markets. Bund 10 year is already up ca 7bps, while Italy is up 9bps. Here's yesterday close for ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

25/4/2014: A stretch of numbers here... a bond sale there... Greek Deficit in 2013

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This week we had the data release by Eurostat showing the fiscal position of the euro area sovereigns for 2013, followed by the statement ...
Monday, February 10, 2014

10/2/2014: Six Years to Admit the Obvious? Call in Europe...

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There are two things to be said about the latest comments from Euro area's chief banking regulator, Danièle Nouy issued recently (see F...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

28/1/2014: Decline in Debt and Regaining of Trust?

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The following out this morning: So is Herr Schaeuble correct? Did reductions of debt help 'regain trust during the crisis'? W...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

11/1/2014: Trueeconomics cited in Expresso

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Trueeconomics cited in today's Expresso article on euro area peripheral bonds: http://expresso.sapo.pt/grecia-e-portugal-lideram-desc...
Monday, September 23, 2013

23/9/2013: Everyone is doing more of the same, alongside German voters

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And here we have it, folks: Germany votes for status quo, markets seem to be voting for the same... Meanwhile, ECB is promising to ...
Monday, September 2, 2013

2/9/2013: Sunday Times August 25: Construction Sector Revival?

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times  article from August 25, 2013. Not a week goes by without a new report on the property ma...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

26/5/2013: FTT v Sovereigns' Addiction to Debt

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FT.com reports ( http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c3121802-c480-11e2-9ac0-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_us%2Ffeed%2...
Monday, April 22, 2013

22/4/2013: Who funds growth in Europe?..

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There are charts and then there are Charts. One example of the latter is via IMF CR1371 The above shows a number of really interesting ...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

30/3/2013: Euro area sovereign risk rises in March 2013

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Here's an interesting bit of data (pertaining to analysts' survey): per Euromoney Country Risk survey: "As of late March 20...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

28/2/2013: Risk-free assets getting thin on the ground

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Neat summary of the problem with the 'risk-free' asset class via ECR: Excluding Germany and the US - both with Negative or St...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

10/11/2012: Euro Area bonds supply - November 2012

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Five weeks forward bonds supply calendar from Morgan Stanley: And aggregates:
Monday, October 29, 2012

29/10/2012: Euro Area and GIIPS: banks & bonds

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An interesting set of two charts from BIS (through Q2 2012) documenting Euro area banks' exit from GIIPS (click to enlarge):
Sunday, October 28, 2012

28/10/2012: BNP note on Spanish Bonds risks

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A neat summery from BNP on (1) current bond ratings, and (2) links between ratings and eligibility for inclusion in bond indices: ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

6/10/2012: Euro area bonds supply calendar for October 2012

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Morgan Stanley October bonds supply calendar for euro zone sovereign bonds:   And summary of volumes for redemptions, coupons an...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

23/9/2012: Euro area bonds supply Sept-October 2012

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5 weeks from September 14th - cumulated gross supply of sovereign bonds of €70.5bn and €57.3bn of redemptions and coupons: And supp...
Friday, July 27, 2012

27/7/2012: Some thoughts on Draghi's thoughts

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Just two reactions - reflective of the markets sentiment - to yesterday's statements by Mario Draghi: Markets are thin, as Europ...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

8/2/2012: A more pleasant Sovereign arithmetic

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And for a rather more pleasant sovereign arithmetic, here's an interesting table from the Global Macro Monitor (link here ) summarizing...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

7/2/2012: An unpleasant risk arithmetic

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Here's the guys Irish authorities trust so much on risk assessment, they contracted them to do banks stress tests - PCARs - back in 201...