The first quarter was hot across the Eurozone. The euro has gotten purposefully crushed by the ECB’s currency war. QE, first promised then implemented, became all the rage. And stocks surged: the Stoxx Europe 600 was up 16%; Italy’s FTSE MIB index up 22%; and Germany’s DAX also up 22%, the sharpest quarterly gain since Q2 2003. Since January 2012, in a little over three years, the DAX has nearly doubled. Only Greece couldn’t get it together.
And bonds have soared to ludicrous levels, with yields turning negative on €2.2 trillion in Eurozone government debt, according to Societe Generale. German government debt is now sporting negative yields up to a 7.5-year maturity, while 10-year yield – at 0.14% as I’m writing this – is on its way to negative as well.
So on March 31, Hans-Jörg Vetter, CEO of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Germany, spoke at the bank’s annual press conference – and fired a warning shot across the bow of investors.......
He talked about how solid the bank was, and he talked about opening new offices…. It was that sort of press conference.
But then, maybe he got off script. That’s when the mundane bank press conference, designed for the taxpayers who own the bank but don’t care and certainly wouldn’t pay attention to it, turned into something that the major German paper FAZ decided to report......
wolfstreet.com/2015/04/01/...les-stocks-bonds-lbbw-ceo-vetter/
Die Landesbank Baden-Württemberg hat vor gravierenden Folgen der dauerhaft niedrigen Zinsen im Euro-Raum gewarnt. Banken, Versicherungen und Fonds gingen hohe Risiken ein. „Es wird kein Risiko mehr bepreist“, sagte LBBW-Chef Hans-Jörg Vetter. Das gelte für alle Vermögensklassen. Am Aktien- und Rentenmarkt entstehe gerade „die Mutter aller Blasen“, warnte Vetter: „Ich kann ihnen nicht sagen, wann es rumpelt, aber irgendwann rumpelt es wieder“.
Die größte deutsche Landesbank, die in der Bankenkrise mit Milliardenhilfen gestützt werden musste, wolle sich an solchen riskanten Geschäften nicht beteiligen und nehme lieber einen niedrigeren Gewinn in Kauf......www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/fonds-mehr/...blase-13515620.html
And bonds have soared to ludicrous levels, with yields turning negative on €2.2 trillion in Eurozone government debt, according to Societe Generale. German government debt is now sporting negative yields up to a 7.5-year maturity, while 10-year yield – at 0.14% as I’m writing this – is on its way to negative as well.
So on March 31, Hans-Jörg Vetter, CEO of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Germany, spoke at the bank’s annual press conference – and fired a warning shot across the bow of investors.......
He talked about how solid the bank was, and he talked about opening new offices…. It was that sort of press conference.
But then, maybe he got off script. That’s when the mundane bank press conference, designed for the taxpayers who own the bank but don’t care and certainly wouldn’t pay attention to it, turned into something that the major German paper FAZ decided to report......
wolfstreet.com/2015/04/01/...les-stocks-bonds-lbbw-ceo-vetter/
Die Landesbank Baden-Württemberg hat vor gravierenden Folgen der dauerhaft niedrigen Zinsen im Euro-Raum gewarnt. Banken, Versicherungen und Fonds gingen hohe Risiken ein. „Es wird kein Risiko mehr bepreist“, sagte LBBW-Chef Hans-Jörg Vetter. Das gelte für alle Vermögensklassen. Am Aktien- und Rentenmarkt entstehe gerade „die Mutter aller Blasen“, warnte Vetter: „Ich kann ihnen nicht sagen, wann es rumpelt, aber irgendwann rumpelt es wieder“.
Die größte deutsche Landesbank, die in der Bankenkrise mit Milliardenhilfen gestützt werden musste, wolle sich an solchen riskanten Geschäften nicht beteiligen und nehme lieber einen niedrigeren Gewinn in Kauf......www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/fonds-mehr/...blase-13515620.html
