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An auction of 3-year notes met with mediocre demand Tuesday as investors absorbed the latest flood of government debt into the bond market.
Treasurys prices held at lower levels after the $32 billion sale provided a high yield of 1.349 percent, a few notches above the when-issued expected rate. The bid-to-cover ratio, which measures the amount of money bid against the total auctioned, came in at a below-average 3.01.
Foreign demand, as measured through the indirect bid, also was weak at 28 percent.
Nervousness over rising commodity prices and worries that the Federal Reserve is acting too slowly to curb inflation resulted in a seventh straight session of declining prices for most bond maturities.
The five-year note was the day's worst performing maturity, but its yield held at interim support at 2.32 percent.
"A lot of people are trying to decide where the market is going to go," said Mike Franzese, head of Treasury trading at Wunderlich Securities in New York. "Are yields going to blow higher?"
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker elevated the market's wariness over the timetable for the U.S. central bank to reduce its monetary stimulus.
Lacker, who is known for his tough stand on inflation, said the Fed should "quite seriously" consider scaling back its $600 billion bond purchase program as the economy shows ongoing improvement.
A healthier economy will fuel more demand for goods and services, raising prices and long-term inflation expectations, said Ken Volpert, head of the taxable bond group with the Vanguard Group in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
"The good news on inflation is behind us," Volpert, who oversees $360 billion in assets, told Reuters.
No Signs of Fed Backing Off
Despite Lacker's caution, there are no signs that the Fed will scale back its second bout of quantitative easing, even as other central banks have tightened monetary policy to combat inflation.
On Tuesday, China raised interest rates for the second time in just over six weeks in its battle against stubbornly high inflation.
The Fed bought $2.19 billion in Treasurys that mature from August 2028 to November 2040 later Tuesday.
Compounding the early market decline were dealers selling Treasurys to lock in yields on bonds they are underwriting this week, analysts said. About $10 billion to $15 billion in corporate bonds are expected to be sold this week, according to IFR, a unit of Thomson Reuters.
Higher-yielding corporate bonds should be more appealing than Treasurys to investors in an improving economy.
The U.S. government is set to sell a combined $72 billion in coupon-bearing securities, part of this week's quarterly refunding.
Among longer-dated issues, U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were last down 6/32 in price with a 3.66 percent yield, up from 3.64 percent late on Monday.
Thirty-year bonds fell 5/32 to yield 4.71 percent, up a tick from Monday's close.
The Treasury will sell $24 billion in 10-year notes Wednesday and $16 billion in 30-year bonds Thursday.
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke appears before the House Budget Committee Wednesday, in what promises to be one of the two most widely watched events of the trading day.
The other event is also a hearing on Capitol Hill, where Bernanke, himself, and the Fed are under fire in a session called by Fed critic Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who heads the House Financial Services' Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee. The focus is on the impact of the Fed's policies on unemployment and job creation, but no Fed officials are scheduled to speak. Both hearings start at 10 a.m.
Yet, market expectations are low for fresh news from Bernanke's testimony, even though the Budget Committee hearing casts him in the center of what promises to be one of the hottest and most important political debates for Congress, as the U.S. emerges from the financial crisis. A divided Congress will have to tackle how the U.S. manages its huge deficits and gets its financial house in order.
Paul's committee will hear testimony from Thomas DiLorenzo, a professor from Loyola University Maryland, and Richard Vedder, a professor form Ohio University.
"Paul thinks the Fed should be disbanded so he's going to say a lot of exciting stuff," said Lord Abbett senior economic strategist Milton Ezrati.
Bernanke, no doubt, will be asked about the Fed's policies at the Budget committee hearing, but market participants think Bernanke probably said as much as he intends to say at an appearance in Washington last week. He is also expected to stick to the Fed's recent meeting statement.
Bernanke also appears at a time when the market is once more questioning the wisdom of the Fed's easing program. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker Tuesday said the Fed should be willing to cut back its $600 billion in Treasury purchases if employment improves and consumer spending holds up. Lacker said he was not ready to stop it yet, but his comments fell on markets that have been pricing in an improving economic picture and leery of potential inflation.
Last week, Bernanke stepped into the political fray with a warning to Congress not to use the debt ceiling limit as a "bargaining chip " in their debates over spending and taxes. The U.S. may breach the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling limit in early April if it is not raised.
In addition to Bernanke, the Fed's Brian Sack speaks at an event at the Philadelphia Fed at 5:45 p.m. ET. Sack is executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed and is expected to discuss the Fed's asset purchase program. The asset purchase program is scheduled to expire by the end of the second quarter, and economists, for the most part, do not anticipate the Fed will start raising rates until sometime next year or even later.
"I think Bernanke is the less interesting of the two," said David Ader, chief Treasury strategist at CRT Capital. "Sack is the more interesting. He's in charge of QE2 (quantitative easing.)"
"He may start to outline more ideas on the exit strategy. I suspect he will say hikes before asset sales," said Ader.
Ader, and others are also watching the 1 p.m. auction of $24 billion in 10-year notes. The 10-year yield rose to 3.73 Tuesday, from 3.64 percent Monday. The 30-year moved to 4.70 percent, and the 5-year rose to 2.40 percent from 2.27 percent Tuesday.
"The curve is moving parallel. It's not like the curve is steepening. Everything is moving. We're moving to a higher interest rate paradigm. it's not a real inflation scare or a Fed hike scare," Ader said.
The 10-year broke out of its recent range late last week. "I think we're going to see something north of 3.75, maybe 3.90 or 4, but it's not going to happen immediately. I think we'll rally 10 bps, back up 15. I think it's going to be a sort of grudging move higher. We've got QE2 ending in June and I think the market has to adjust to the idea that this big massive buyer is gone and I think we'll be grinding higher towards that event," Ader said.
Stocks moved higher Tuesday, even as China's latest rate hike held back global equities markets initially. The Dow was up 71 at 12,233, and the S&P 500 rose 5 to 1324. The dollar was weaker against the euro, at 1.3633.
Oil lost $0.54 per barrel, to $86.94 per barrel. After the close, API reported crude inventories fell by 558,000 barrels, while analysts expected an increase of 2.4 million barrels.
Gold gained $15.80 an ounce, to $1363.40, as China's rate move stirred concerns about inflation.
# 239: "Grob gerechnet entfielen von den gut 500 Milliarden Euro, die die Zentralbank [EZB] den nationalen Geldhäusern zur Verfügung gestellt hat, zum Jahreswechsel mehr als 300 Milliarden Euro auf die Banken der Länder Portugal, Irland, Griechenland und Spanien. Damit saugt nicht einmal ein Viertel der europäischen Banken knapp zwei Drittel der Liquidität ab, die die EZB zur Verfügung stellt. Europas Bankenlandschaft teilt sich also in zwei Klassen: Auf der einen Seite die Institute, die aus der Krise gekommen sind, auf der anderen Seite jene, die auf absehbare Zeit am Tropf der Zentralbank hängen."
Muss es nicht "auf unabsehbare Zeit" heißen?
Denn wer an wessen Tropf hängt, darüber kann man streiten. Im Grunde hängt die EZB als Gläubiger auch am Tropf der PIIGS-Banken (Schuldner). Es heißt ja nicht umsonst: Wenn du dir 3000 Euro leihst und diese nicht zurückzahlen kannst, dann hast du ein Problem mit der Bank. Wenn du dir 300 Milliarden von der (Zentral-)Bank leihst und diese nicht zurückzahlen kannst, dann hat die (Zentral-)Bank ein Problem (mir dir).
Die PIIGS-Banken werden die obigen 300 Mrd. nie an die EZB zurückzahlen, da sie sonst pleite gingen. Dieses Dauer-Erpressungs-Argument ("too big to fail") verhindert dauerhaft die Rückzahlung. Irgendwann (jetzt schon?) wird der Kredit zur lieben Gewohnheit. Die Tatsache, dass nicht zurückgezahlt werden kann, macht den Kredit dann letztlich zum Almosen. Es gilt die normative Kraft des Faktischen. Vermutlich werden nicht mal die sichereren Nordbanken die verbleibenden 200 Mrd. zurückzahlen können bzw. wollen ("Wozu sollten wir zurückzahlen, wenn sich die PIIGS-Banken alle erfolgreich davor drücken?").
Aus dem gleichen Grund wird es auch bei der Fed nie einen nennenswerten Unwind geben, bei dem die Fed-Soma-Verschuldung rückabgewickelt wird. Das Cyber-Geld war als Anschwungfinanzierung für den selbsttragenden Aufschwung gedacht, der jedoch nicht kommt. Daher lautet in USA das Dauer-Erpressungs-Argument: Wir können mit QE jetzt noch nicht aufhören, weil die Wirtschaft noch nicht organisch wächst (d.h. ohne QE/Geithner'sche Staatsanleihen-Druckanstalt würde das BIP schrumpfen) und weil infolge dessen die Massenarbeitslosigkeit noch nicht zurückgegangen ist. Wird QE aber "auf unabsehbare Zeit" fortgesetzt, wächst die Fed-Verschuldung notwendigerweise - und unabsehbar - an, statt zurückgeführt zu werden.
HAMBURG (Dow Jones)--Die EU-Bürger müssen sich wegen des geplanten Ausbaus der europäischen Energienetze auf spürbar höhere Strompreise einstellen. Es gehe "um ein bis zwei Cent pro Kilowattstunde", sagte der Brüsseler Energiekommissar dem "Hamburger Abendblatt" (Mittwochausgabe). Damit ließen sich die neuen Leitungen und weitere Speicherkapazitäten finanzieren. Zugleich warnte Oettinger, wenn das Energienetz nicht ausgebaut werde, sei die Gefahr eines Stromausfalls "sehr real".
Der geplante Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien wie der Windkraft beinträchtige die Versorgungssicherheit, hob Oettinger hervor. "Daher brauchen wir perfekte Netze, die Schwankungen ausgleichen können." Die Modernisierung der Energieinfrastruktur hatten die Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU bei ihrem jüngsten Gipfel in Brüssel beschlossen. Der Ausbau soll rund 200 Mrd EUR kosten.
Nach Oettingers Überzeugung können die Energiekonzerne den Netzausbau nur bewältigen, wenn sie die Kosten teilweise an die Verbraucher weitergeben. Die deutschen Energieversorger seien "im internationalen Vergleich nur mittelgroß". Ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit dürfe nicht gefährdet werden.
Webseite: www.abendblatt.de
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Wenn ich so etwas lese, frage ich mich immer wieder warum die Politik ihren Lobbies so für spricht.
Wir haben 100.000de Unternehmen in Europa und alle investieren jeden Tag oder halt auch nicht. Warum jammert der EU-Kommissar nicht, wenn ALDI sich überlegt ihre Infrastruktur auszubauen? Die Kosten werden wohl nicht an die Verbraucher weitergegeben ? Wird da nicht Marge gerechnet und Preise erhöht, wenn es geht?
Wenn Lidl, Aldi und MediaMarkt investieren (oder auch nicht) und ihre Preise festlegen sagt doch auch keiner: "wenn die nicht investieren in Online Shops kann der Kundenansturm nicht mehr bewältigt werden - dazu müssen sie aber den Verbrauchern höhere Preise abringen, sonst sind die nicht in der Lage einen Online Shops ins Internet zu stellen". Hallo ?!
Ich meine, RWE und EON sollen investieren oder es lassen: Es sollte vielleicht auch möglich sein, daß der Gewinn der beiden Stromgiganten dann etwas niedriger ausfallen darf !! Sie sollen es sich doch überlegen, ob es ihnen Rendite bringt oder nicht!
Ansonsten sollte der Staat sich einfach mal auf seine Stadtwerke zurückbesinnen und diese stärken, damit diese dezentral Energie produzieren und Netze bauen. Diese können sie ja auf Anfrage an RWE und EON vermieten oder Durchleitungsgebühren verlangen !!!!
South Korean regulators are seeking the suspension of some operations of Deutsche Bank's local unit for six months over market manipulation and unfair transaction charges, a source said on Wednesday.
Media reports also said regulators were planning to take the German bank and five employees of its Korean and Hong Kong units to the prosecutors over possible irregular trades that may be linked to a near 3 percent plunge in the stock market at the close of trading on Nov. 11.
The move comes as South Korea seeks to stabilize its gyrating financial markets with a series of measures such as capital controls and tougher derivatives trade rules, as the country, which boasts one of the world's biggest financial derivatives markets, is exposed to rising market volatility.
"(Regulators) plan to discuss the six-month suspension of some operations in Korea at their meeting on Thursday," a regulatory source told Reuters, declining to be identified, as the agenda has yet to be set for the meeting.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission and Financial Supervisory Service said in a joint statement that they have yet to decide whether to penalize Deutsche Bank including the potential level of penalties, but they had informed the bank of their investigation results so that it can prepare its defense.
Record foreign selling on Nov. 11, including a 2.3 trillion won ($2.1 billion) sale from Deutsche accounts minutes before the market closed, led to a 53-point drop in the KOSPI amid options expiry.
Media reports said Deutsche Bank had garnered profits of about 40-50 billion won ($36-$46 million) from put-option transactions just before the massive stock sell-off, which caused the market to plunge.
"Deutsche did make option transactions an hour before it made massive sell orders and that has led (regulators) to believe it may have been involved in irregular transactions," another regulatory source told Reuters, declining to be identified as the source was not authorized to talk to the media.
"Deutsche is denying the allegations and the issue may eventually go to court for a final verdict," the source added. A Deutsche Bank spokesman declined to comment on the media reports.
Index Drop
The massive foreign selling on Nov. 11 propelled overall market turnover to its highest in 18 months.
A single trade in the final minute of trading made up about 14 percent of total KOSPI volume for the day, according to the Thomson Reuters trade log of exchange data. That single transaction caused the index to drop 2.4 percent.
If the case is discussed on Thursday, a regular higher-level meeting of the Financial Services Commission will make a final ruling on whether to penalize Deutsche Bank units on Feb. 23.
Last year, Deutsche Bank made a 16.7 trillion yen ($202.8 billion) mistrade at the Osaka Securities Exchange, raising questions about the lender's risk management systems and prompting a regulatory probe.
In recent times, Korea has seen a few other cases of investigations by financial regulators.
Last year, the head of JPMorgan Chase's Korean unit, Steve Lim, was investigated by financial regulators and prosecutors over alleged unfair trading.
He was later cleared of such charges and the investment bank earned mandates in recent deals including sale of medical equipment firm Medison to Samsung Electronics and the government's $6 billion stake sale in Woori Finance Holdings, which was subsequently suspended.
South Korean regulators also issued a warning to the local branch of British bank Barclays in December for breaching banking and currency trade regulations.
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