| L'édito de Marc Fiorentino |
BFM Radio, Marc Fiorentino, 03/11/2010 (en Français )
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| http://podcast.bfmradio.fr/channel1/20101103_fiorentino_1.mp3 |
L'homme qui sort le plus renforcé aujourdh'ui, c'est Ben Bernanke.
Son poids va encore se renforcer, face à un pouvoir politique qui risque d'être complètement bloqué.
Il va bénéficier d'un poids tout nouveau en matière de politique budgétaire.
Les USA vont devoir choisir leur camp entre une relance budgétaire un peu à la japonaise ou une austérité à l'anglaise.
La FED peut le faire par des recommandations ou par des menaces. Si elle veut plus d'austérité, il lui suffit de dire qu'elle n'injectera pas de liquidités tant que des mesures n'auront pas été prises pour réduire le déficit budgétaire.
Alors je l'affirme aujourdh'ui. Ben Bernanke c'est le grand vainqueur de ces élections. Le voila de fait patron de la banque centrale, mais également ministre des finances, ministre de l'économie.
Ça va encore être la fête aux "profits" à Wall Street dites donc
Même son de cloche sur le blog de Dominique Seux :
| L’économie américaine n’est pas fichue ! |
Les Echos, 03/11/2010 (en Français )
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| http://blogs.lesechos.fr/article.php?id_article=4574 |
En réalité, les leviers de commande économique sont en train d’être transférés à la Réserve fédérale dont on attend les décisions, coïncidence, ce soir à 19 heures 15 heure française. Et cette décision est importante : elle va consister pour la FED à annoncer l’achat de Bons du Trésor américain, pour environ 500 milliards de dollars, afin de faire baisser les taux d’intérêt, de relancer l’activité et d’éviter la déflation, la baisse des prix. Il s’agit de rejouer le coup de 2008. C’est un pari incertain parce qu’on ne fait pas boire un âne qui n’a pas soif – si les Américains ne veulent pas consommer et investir, ils ne le feront pas – et qu’on arrose pas le sable – il est délicat de résoudre une crise d’endettement par plus d’endettement.
Et ça me fait une transition toute trouvée avec le QE2 annoncé aujourd'hui :
| FOMC Announcement: $600 Billion, $75 Billion/Month, $110 Billion Including QE Lite, 35% SOMA Limit Removed, $27.5 Billion Weekly POMO, On Run Rate To Monetize Entire Budget Deficit |
ZeroHedge, 03/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fomc-announcement-600-billion-75-billionmonth-110-billion-including-qe-lite |
To promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate, the Committee decided today to expand its holdings of securities. The Committee will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings. In addition, the Committee intends to purchase a further $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a pace of about $75 billion per month. The Committee will regularly review the pace of its securities purchases and the overall size of the asset-purchase program in light of incoming information and will adjust the program as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability.
To provide operational flexibility and to ensure that it is able to purchase the most attractive securities on a relative-value basis, the Desk is temporarily relaxing the 35 percent per-issue limit on SOMA holdings under which it has been operating. However, SOMA holdings of an individual security will be allowed to rise above the 35 percent threshold only in modest increments.
(Le SOMA limit, c'est encore une de ces joyeusetés dont ZeroHedge a le secret, on y reviendra plus tard)
Les maturités visées :
Et du coup, la FED demande au Trésor de l'alimenter en obligations en conséquence :
| The Ultimate Insiders' Take on QE2 and Basel 3--Treasury Encouraged to Issue Debt to Match Fed Purchases |
ZeroHedge, 03/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ultimate-insiders-take-qe2-and-basel-3-treasury-encouraged-issue-debt-match-fed-purchases |
This morning, Treasury released the minutes of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC). Why these are important, I've written previously:
Each quarter, representatives from the banking elite primary dealers meet with top Treasury officials to advise an optimal debt issuance strategy. The Minutes of these Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee meetings and formal Report to the Treasury are a window into their perceptions and insider knowledge, yet they seldom receive notice--even outside the mainstream financial news outlets.
QE2 is expected to be $130 billion per month, or $1,560 over the next year
QE2 will last at least six months and up to two years
The total amount of QE2 will be data dependent
Treasury is encouraged to increase coupon issuance (especially in the 30 year maturity) to address "liquidity" shortfalls as a result of Fed purchases
The Treasury yield curve is expected to flatten in the 5-10 year sector, with the yield on the 30 increasing with inflation concerns and US Dollar debasement
Implications for the mortage market are that mortgage spreads relative to Treasurys may initially widen, but will ultimately narrow. However, as the 30 year yield is expected to climb, so should mortgage rates (as if the housing market needed another blow)
A comparison of the scope of QE2 to "the entire combined expected net issuance of Treasuries, Agencies, Agency MBS and Investment Grade Corporates" leads us to speculate the Fed may end up purchasing these very instruments
The Fed's QE2 "exit strategy" may involve simply selling its holdings in small, predictable increments (no mention of term deposits, IOER or other Fed tools)
As a result of QE2, investors will be edged out of the 2-10 year range and into very short term (T-Bills) and long term (T-Bonds), and into riskier assets in general
Basel 3 is being implemented at a record pace (beware of unintended consequences)
Basel 3 will lead to increased lending costs, causing lending to move outside of the regulated banking system into the non-bank financial system
Basel 3 will force banks to buy sovereigns ($400 in US Treasurys alone by 2015)
The Fed is the 800 lb gorilla in the room, and all the other central banks are scrambling to adjust
Le résultat de 2 ans de politique de la FED... Sans surprise, les grands gagnants, ce sont toujours les mêmes kleptocrates du néo clergé, avec les banquiers qui échappent à la faillite et à toute remise en cause, et les actions qui remontent. Naturellement, l'économie réelle, est au fond du seau. Mais ça, on s'en tape...
| Rosenberg On The Revenue-Less, And Now Margin-Less, Recovery |
ZeroHedge, 01/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rosenberg-revenue-less-and-now-margin-less-recovery |
sales are still 11% lower now than they were in the spring of 2008.
it is because earnings estimates are no longer rising as they were in 2009 — they are falling.
| Pick The Fraud One Out: An Abridged Overview Of US Markets And Economics In Five Plus One Simple Charts |
ZeroHedge, 02/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pick-fraud-one-out-abridged-overview-us-markets-and-economics-five-plus-one-simple-charts |





And the winner is !
Du coup, les autres surveillent ça comme l'eau sur le feu :
| Saxo Bank Joins Chorus Of Voices Calling For End Of The Federal Reserve |
ZeroHedge, 03/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/saxo-bank-joins-chorus-voices-calling-end-federal-reserve |
Following the recent surge in Fed critics, including Gross, Buffett, Grantham, and most other self-respecting economists, Saxo Bank's John J. Hardy (blog link) shares the most recent, and very scathing, critique of the Fed, which essentially calls for the end of the US central bank, saying the days of the Fed are now numbered.
Bring it on, Ben: take us that much nearer to the denouement of 100 years of US Federal Reserve. There won’t be a second hundred years. The final countdown starts now.
| ECB, Bank of Japan keep wary eye on Fed |
Forbes, 02/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/11/02/business-eu-europe-interest-rates_8066636.html?boxes=Homepagebusinessnews |
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan all hold meetings this week, amid concerns the Fed's monetary injection may send the dollar down against the euro and the yen, potentially holding back exports and harming the shaky recoveries in Europe and Japan.
| QE2 risks currency wars and the end of dollar hegemony |
The Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans Pritchard, 01/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/8103462/QE2-risks-currency-wars-and-the-end-of-dollar-hegemony.html |
As the US Federal Reserve meets today to decide whether its next blast of quantitative easing should be $1 trillion or a more cautious $500bn, it does so knowing that China and the emerging world view the policy as an attempt to drive down the dollar.
"The continued and drastic US dollar depreciation recently has led countries including Japan, South Korea, and Thailand to intervene in the currency market, intensifying a 'currency war'. In the mid-term, the US dollar will continue to weaken and gaming between major currencies will escalate,"
David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the root problem is lack of underlying demand in the global economy, leaving Western economies trapped near stalling speed.
"It is becoming harder to mop up the liquidity flowing into these countries," said Neil Mellor, of the Bank of New York Mellon. "We fully expect more central banks to impose capital controls over the next couple of months. That is the world we live in," he said. Globalisation is unravelling before our eyes.
But whatever the rights and wrongs of the argument, the reality is that a chorus of Chinese officials and advisers is demanding that China switch reserves into gold or forms of oil. As this anti-dollar revolt gathers momentum worldwide, the US risks losing its "exorbitant privilege" of currency hegemony – to use the term of Charles de Gaulle.
It is hard to gauge the impact of a falling dollar on commodities, but the pattern in mid-2008 was that it led to oil, metal, and grain price rises with multiple leverage. The core victims were the poorest food-importing countries in Africa and South Asia. Tell them that QE2 brings good news.
Et sinon, petit effet de bord des mid terms, Ron Paul, un des pires ennemis de la FED, va diriger le comité de la chambre sur la potlique monétaire...
| Ron Paul To Chair Monetary Policy Subcommittee |
ZeroHedge, 03/11/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ron-paul-chair-monetary-policy-subcommittee |
Here is why an open-ended QE2 may be a very moot point: Slate reports that Ron Paul, Ben Bernanke's greatest nemesis, will chair the all important monetary policy subcommittee. In other words, Bernanke v Paul theater will soon be a weekly feature. Too bad Alan Grayson will be no longer present.
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