.....
Zuerst wird er runter getrieben und dann kurz vor dem Gipfel hochgehoben ...
|
Bond investors predictably shied away from a sale of long bonds Wednesday, following the Fed away from the long end of the curve and into shorter maturities.
A $16 million sale of the 30-year bond awarded a yield of 4.32 percent, far above expectations of about 4.275 as anemic demand weighed on the auction. There was just $2.31 bid for each dollar auctioned, a measure known as the bid-to-cover ratio that was the worst for the long bond in a year.
Foreign demand as measured through indirect bidding also was weak, coming in at 38 percent of the total sale.
Treasury prices plunged after the auction results at 1 pm ET, sending yields on the 30-year to 4.32 percent, their highest since May 18 as prices fell 1-3/32.
Several factors made the 30-year sale grim. The Federal Reserve is not planning to buy 30-year bonds as part of its $600 billion Treasury purchasing program. The Treasury Department recently said it has no plans to cut 30-year issuance. And inflation worries have made the 30-year look unattractive to investors.
Trading volume Wednesday was 170 percent of the 10-day average according to Ian Lyngen, senior government bond strategist at CRT Capital Group in Stamford, Conn.
"You can think of it as a confirmation of yesterday's back-up in yields," Lyngen said. "It brought up enough people who wanted to be on either side of that trade."
Tuesday's sell-off gained momentum after a $24 billion sale of 10-year Treasury notes drew fewer bids than normal, although the high yield at the auction was still lower than the yield at which 10-year notes were trading in the open market.
"What dealers are trying to determine right now is to see what yield level in long-end rates is going to start to attract the domestic fund manager buyers that tend to be the biggest bidders in long-bond auctions," said William O'Donnell, head of U.S. rates strategy at RBS Securities in Stamford, Conn.
Lyngen noted corporate bond issuance could push prices higher again as issuers began unwinding hedges and buying back government securities.
"The pipeline is building—we have a five-year JPMorgan benchmark-sized deal out there, we have a Russian Development Bank almost-$2 billion deal out there," Lyngen said.
The causes of Tuesday's selling were still being debated.
"It was both a bad 10-year auction and also the prospect of having another auction to deal with," said David Coard, head of fixed income sales and trading at Williams Capital.
Tuesday's selling served to erase much of the market's price gains since August, when the Federal Reserve began debating a new Treasury purchase program to stimulate growth.
The Fed announced its $600 billion quantitative easing program a week ago. Traders were waiting Wednesday for another detail: the buying schedule for the Fed's purchases.
Data Wednesday showed weekly jobless claims of 435,000, lower than expectations of 450,000. While the market saw some selling immediately after the number, the declines vanished later in the morning.
Precious metals markets continued to be chaotic Wednesday—with both silver and gold futures down sharply—after the main commodities exchange moved to tighten margin requirements on silver to cool speculation in metals. #0000ff">Regulatorische Eingriffe sind selten von langfristigem Erfolg gekrönt!
“It’s like trying to pick strawberries out of a blender,” said one Comex trader of the volatility as speculatiors scrambled to rebalance their positions in anticipation of the new margin requirements.
On Tuesday the Chicago Mercantile Exchange informed traders that it was raising the amount of margin—how much cash an investor has to put up front to cover trades—on Comex silver futures contracts. That prompted speculation that the CME would impose similar increases on gold.
The new requirements make it more expensive for speculators and investors to hold positions in these hot commodity markets.
Silver futures prices fell sharply after the announcement, recovered overnight and then declined further on Wednesday. US gold futures also bounced around but were down sharply.
After the close of trading on Wednesday, investors seeking to put on an initial position in the silver futures market will be required to post $8,775 per 5,000 ounce silver contract versus the previous $6,500. And investors with existing positions that are losing money will be asked to post $6,500 instead of $5000 for ongoing “maintenance” margins.
While the new margin requirements make it riskier for traders to make highly speculative bets, it could actually end up being bullish for the markets, says Kevin Grady, a trader for MF Global.
That's because traders with "long" positions—who bet prices will rise—aren't affected while "short" traders—who bet prices will fall—will get squeezed out because they have to put up more money to maintain their bets, he says.
Jim Steel, HSBC chief commodity analyst, says history shows that reaction to such margin adjustments are “sharp but short”. The last time margins were increased was after close of business June 7, 2010 when the price of silver was roughly 50% lower than it is today.
One question being asked is whether the increase in silver margins portends an increase in margins on gold or futures in other commodites. While always a possibility, traders note the reaction following the increase in silver margins may have taken some of the froth out of the market already.
“Traditionally, changes in margin don’t alter the fundamentals of the market”, says Steel, a bull market in gold is still a bull market. But what he is watching are yields creeping up in the 10-year. More relevant than margin rates, higher interest rates increase the cost of holding gold and that makes it a less attractive investment.
Gold remains the bigger focus, bigger market and more important global story. But silver is certainly a trader’s market for now.
Leaders of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission on Wednesday proposed reducing the annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security, part of a bold plan to control $1 trillion-plus budget deficits.
The proposal also would set a tough target for curbing the growth of Medicare and recommends looking at eliminating popular tax breaks, such as mortgage interest deduction.
As proposed, the plan by Chairman Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., doesn't look like it can win support from 14 of the commission's 18 members to force a debate in Congress. Bowles is a Democrat and was former President Bill Clinton's White House chief of staff.
Cuts to Social Security and Medicare are making some liberals on the panel recoil. And conservative Republicans are having difficulty with options on how to raise tax revenue. The plan also calls for cuts in farm subsidies, foreign aid and the Pentagon's budget.
"This is not a proposal I could support," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. "On Medicare and Social Security in particular, there are proposals that I could not support."
The Social Security proposal would change the inflation measurement used to calculate cost of living adjustments for program benefits, reducing annual cost-of-living increases. It will almost certainly draw opposition from advocates for seniors, who are already upset that there will be no increase for 2011, the second straight year without a raise.
The plan released by Bowles is only a proposal put forth by him and Simpson. Members of the commission will resume debate on it later Wednesday and next week in a long-shot bid to reach a compromise.
The release of the proposal comes just a week after midterm elections that gave Republicans the House majority and increased their numbers in the Senate. During the campaign, neither political party talked of spending cuts of the magnitude proposed by Bowles, with Republicans simply proposing $100 million in cuts to domestic programs passed each year by Congress.
"It's a very provocative proposal," said GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas. "Some of it I like. Some of it disturbs me. And some of it I've got to study."
FTD-Das Kapital
10.11.2010
Der Dollar auf Abwegen
Im Euroraum rumst es, in Japan laufen die Staatsschulden auf 250 Prozent des BIP zu. Und dennoch notiert der Dollar weit unter der Kaufkraftparität zu Euro und Yen. Wie kann das sein?
Wenn die Angelsachsen eines nicht mögen, dann ist es Selbstgefälligkeit. Dennoch sind sie sich sicher, dass ihre Staaten niemals pleitegehen können, weil sie ja, anders als Griechenland, Spanien, Portugal oder Irland, eigenes Geld drucken können. Dass es einem Gläubiger lieber sein könnte, einen Abschlag auf die Schulden Griechenlands von 50 Prozent zu erleiden, als mit Dollars bedient zu werden, die bloß noch ein Zehntel der ursprünglichen Kaufkraft genießen, kommt den wenigsten in den Sinn.
In diesem Sinne jedoch muss man wohl die Herabstufung der Bonitätsnote Amerikas durch die chinesische Agentur Dagong von "AA" auf "A+" verstehen. Dass man die wüste Propaganda von Dagong als jene Hetze begreifen sollte, die sie ist, zeigt sich zwar schon in dem Verdacht der Agentur, wonach die US-Wirtschaft ohne ihren virtuellen Teil - was immer das auch ist - 2009 bloß ein BIP von 5000 Mrd. statt 14.000 Mrd. Dollar erzielt habe (so viel wie China).
Aber der Umstand, dass der Dollar trotz der Verwerfungen in der Euro-Peripherie weit unter der Kaufkraftparität zum Euro notiert, sollte schon zu denken geben. Ähnliches gilt ja auch für Japan, das auf Schulden von 250 Prozent des BIPs zuläuft - bei einer rapide alternden und schrumpfenden Gesellschaft.
Wie kann das sein, fragen sich etliche Devisenexperten. Im Gegensatz zu einigen Ländern Europas, aber auch zu China, soll in den USA sowohl die Bevölkerung als auch ihr arbeitsfähiger Teil bis 2050 schließlich nie schrumpfen, womit Amerika immerhin in einer besseren finanzpolitischen Ausgangslage sein sollte als jene Länder, die Euro oder Yen emittieren. Stimmt.
Doch ist das eben ein schwacher Trost. Im dritten Quartal haben die USA ein Außenhandelsdefizit von 3,8 Prozent des BIPs verzeichnet, obwohl die inländische Endnachfrage um ein Zehntel unter ihrem exponentiellen Trend liegt. Vielleicht rechnen die Dollar-Bullen mal aus, wohin sich die US-Handelsbilanz bei der angestrebten Normalisierung der Nachfrage bewegen würde.
www.ftd.de/finanzen/maerkte/marktberichte/...gen/50193239.html
Handelsblatt
Geschäftsmodell: Für die Banken kommt das böse Erwachen
Die hohen Verluste im dritten Quartal lassen viele Finanzhäuser ratlos zurück. Die Banken spüren, dass ihr Geschäftsmodell nicht weiter trägt. Durch den Boom nach der Finanzkrise konnten viele Institute diese Realität bisher verdrängen. Doch nun sind sie mehr denn je auf der Suche nach dem Geschäftsmodell der Zukunft.
von Torsten Riecke, Hans G. Nagl, Michael Maisch und Astrid Dörner
ZÜRICH/FRANKFURT/LONDON/NEW YORK. Oswald Grübel sagt, was andere Top-Banker nur denken. Die Schweizer Großbank müsse wieder mehr Risiken eingehen, wenn sie in alte Gewinnsphären zurückkehren wolle, lautete das Fazit des UBS-Chefs nach einem enttäuschenden dritten Quartal. Was für die UBS gilt, stimmt auch für andere. Sind doch bei den meisten Banken die Gewinne in diesem Zeitraum zweistellig eingebrochen.
Grübel steht mit seiner Position keineswegs allein da. „Einige Banken verdrängen die neue Realität und wollen zurück zu den Boomzeiten von 2006“, sagt ein anderer Top-Banker aus Zürich. Die neue Realität für die Finanzhäuser – das sind höhere Kapitalstandards, strenge Regeln für Risikogeschäfte auf eigene Rechnung und vor allem niedrigere Renditen. Statt wie früher 20 Prozent und mehr einzufahren, können die Banken froh sein, wenn sie künftig noch zweistellige Ertragsquoten schaffen.
Bislang konnten viele Institute diese Realität auch deshalb verdrängen, weil nach der Finanzkrise gleich der nächste Boom alle Sorgen vergessen ließ. Vor allem der Handel mit Anleihen, Rohstoffen und Währungen – kurz FICC genannt – sorgte für einen Geldregen. Die Agentur Bloomberg hat ausgerechnet, dass der FICC-Handel im vergangenen Jahr und im ersten Halbjahr 2010 mehr als die Hälfte der Einnahmen im weltweiten Investment-Banking ausmachte.
Doch jetzt, zwölf Monate später kommt das böse Erwachen: Die Märkte haben gedreht, der Handelsfluss versiegt, und damit sinken auch die Erträge aus dem Geschäft mit Kundentransaktionen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Geschäftsmodelle den Härtetest der neuen Realität noch nicht bestehen. Weder lassen sich damit die Aufsichtsbehörden beruhigen, noch der Renditehunger der Investoren befriedigen. Keine Bank hat bislang den goldenen Mix aus Privatkundengeschäft, Investment-Banking und Asset Management gefunden. „Die Geschäftsmodelle befinden sich angesichts der politischen, regulatorischen und ökonomischen Veränderungen in einem dramatischen Wandel“, stellt Harvard-Professor Clayton Ros fest.
Beispiel Deutsche Bank. Die Verluste....
www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...das-boese-erwachen;2689581
Nervöse Anleger
Des Schuldendramas nächster Akt
Die Schuldenkrise hat Europa wieder fest im Griff. Die Märkte sehen Irland am Abgrund. Ausgerechnet der Zentralbankchef der Insel gießt Öl ins Feuer. Und die Regierung Griechenlands hat offenbar mal wieder beim Rechnen geschummelt.
von Barbara Schäder, Frankfurt
www.ftd.de/finanzen/...uldendramas-naechster-akt/50193061.html
Kurz vor dem Start des Gipfels der 20 größten Industrienationen stehen die Chancen auf einen Erfolg schlecht. Im seit Wochen schwelenden Währungsstreit sind die Fronten verhärtet. Ein Treffen von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel mit US-Präsident Obama soll den Weg für einen Kompromiss ebnen. Die USA hoffen "unverbindliche Leitlinien" für den internationalen Handel. Merkel lehnt politische Eingriffe ab.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/...ionskurs;2690568
Die Vereinigten Staaten wollen von ihrem riesigen Haushaltsdefizit runter. Eine überparteiliche Sonderkommission verlangt von Präsident Obama massive Einschnitte. Davon soll auch der Verteidigungssektor nicht verschont bleiben. Das US-Etatdefizit beträgt derzeit 8,9 Prozent; bis 2015 soll es auf 2,2 Prozent sinken.
Eine überparteiliche Sonderkommission hat US-Präsident Barack Obama erste Empfehlungen für eine Sanierung des Staatshaushaltes vorgelegt. Die aus Demokraten und Republikanern zusammengesetzte Kommission erklärte, es seien "schmerzhafte Einschnitte" bei den Staatsausgaben für Verteidigung, Inneres und Soziales nötig.
Unabdingbar sei auch eine tiefgehende Reform des Steuersystems, hieß es weiter. "Amerika kann nicht groß sein, wenn wir pleite sind", warnten die Kommissionsvorsitzenden, der Demokrat Erskine Bowles und der Republikaner Alan Simpson.
So sollen bei Verteidigung und Inneres in den kommenden fünf Jahren 200 Milliarden Dollar eingespart werden. Die Pläne sehen unter anderem die Streichung von Rüstungsprojekten und einen Abbau von zehn Prozent der Stellen bei Bundesbehörden vor. Zu den drastischsten Vorschlägen zählen eine Begrenzung der Rentensteigerungen und langfristig eine Anhebung des Rentenalters von 65 auf 67 Jahre.
Das Haushaltsdefizit der USA beträgt derzeit 8,9 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes (BIP), es soll nach dem Willen Obamas bis 2015 auf drei Prozent sinken. Die Kommission will dieses Ziel noch übertreffen und Vorschläge unterbreiten, wie das Defizit bis 2015 auf 2,2 Prozent gebracht werden kann. Ihren Abschlussbericht soll die Kommission Anfang Dezember vorstellen.
Quelle: AFP/dpa
Chinese inflation sped to a 25-month high in October and bank lending blew past expectations, highlighting the mounting challenge faced by Beijing to keep a grip on price pressures.
The data left little doubt about why the central bank raised reserve requirements this week and pointed to further tightening steps, from interest rate increases to yuan appreciation, in the coming months.
A stabilization of key growth indicators, notably industrial output and capital spending, should give the government the confidence to take more steps to mop up liquidity, knowing that the economy is on solid ground, analysts said.
"The authorities are giving up the thought that inflation is going to peak soon," said Dong Tao, an economist with Credit Suisse in Hong Kong.
"I think the tune has changed. That's very big. It means that what we are seeing now is not just a one-off but the beginning of probably a long normalization process," he said.
China's headline inflation rose to 4.4 percent in the year to October from 3.6 percent in September, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday, the highest since September 2008.
Industrial output remained strong with 13.1 percent year-on-year growth, down a touch from 13.3 percent in September. Urban fixed-asset investment rose 24.4 percent in the first 10 months of the year from the same period a year earlier.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 4.0 percent consumer price inflation, a 13.5 percent rise in industrial output and a 24.3 percent increase in investment.
"The data showed very strong economic growth. Combined with high inflationary risk, the data will trigger policy tightening," said Dong Xian'an, chief macro economist with Industrial Securities in Beijing.
In the balance of factors, Chinese investors seemed more excited at the evidence of abundant liquidity than worried at the prospect of more tightening.
The main stock index in Shanghai , down before the data, was up 0.7 percent.
Moody's Investor Service also delivered a positive verdict about the health of the economy. It upgraded the Chinese government's bond rating on Thursday, citing the economy's resilient performance through the global financial crisis.
Liquidity Headache
The rise in inflation was dominated by increases in food prices, with core inflationary pressure more muted. But that will give little relief to policymakers looking at a pick-up in monetary and credit growth.
Chinese banks extended 588 billion yuan ($88.6 billion) of new local-currency loans in October, blowing past forecasts of 450 billion yuan. And the broad M2 measure of money growth climbed to 19.3 percent year on year, the highest in five months.
"The strong credit expansion and the M2 rebound suggest that, after QE2 (quantitative easing in the United States), there will be a massive amount of liquidity compounding the excessive liquidity here," said Isaac Meng, an economist with BNP Paribas in Beijing.
"It is very dangerous," he said.
China raised banks' reserve requirements on Wednesday to lock up some of the cash that is coursing through the economy. It targeted a select number of banks with an extra reserve increase on top of the industry-wide move to mop up even more cash.
Although Chinese officials have directed their ire at U.S. monetary easing as a cause of unwanted speculative inflows, data on Wednesday provided a reminder that a whopping trade surplus is the main source of Beijing's liquidity headache.
China has officially raised banks' reserve requirements four times this year, while also clamping down on their credit issuance to control money growth after an unprecedented lending spree last year.
The central bank raised interest rates last month for the first time in nearly three years, and many analysts believe that another increase could come before the end of the year.
Japanese manufacturing confidence worsened in November and machinery orders tumbled more than expected in September, reinforcing worries that the country's fragile economic recovery may stall in the coming months.
A global economic slowdown and the expiration of government stimulus steps are adding to the woes of many companies which worry that persistent yen strength and deflation will dent their profits.
In a sign such anxiety is starting to weigh on capital spending, core machinery orders fell 10.3 percent in September, the biggest decline since March 2008, government data showed.
Manufacturers surveyed by the government expect core orders in October-December to mark their biggest decline since 2009.
"The Bank of Japan currently predicts that the economy's recovery will see only a temporary pause and will soon resume on strength in capital spending. But manufacturers' weak machinery order forecast for October-December suggests that the BOJ will need to ease its policy further in the coming months," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norinchukin Research
Institute.
A Reuters Tankan survey for November showed manufacturers will turn pessimistic in the next three months, while the service sector will turn even gloomier.
The poll showed the manufacturers' sentiment index fell 3 points from October to plus 16, its lowest reading since July. Service sector sentiment tumbled 7 points to minus 13, its worst reading since May, staying negative since June 2008.
Sentiment is seen dropping further to minus 3 in manufacturing in the three months to February next year, matching the biggest-ever decline hit in the previous month and marking the first negative reading since March.
The 95 percent correlation between the monthly Reuters Tankan and the BOJ's closely watched quarterly tankan survey means that the central bank's next survey, in December, will likely show that big manufacturer sentiment worsened for the first time in two years and turned negative.
Manufacturers surveyed by the Cabinet Office forecast that core machinery orders, a highly volatile data series regarded as a leading indicator of capital spending, will fall 9.8 percent in October-December from the previous quarter.
Separate data by the BOJ showed wholesale prices rose 0.9 percent in the year to October, marking the biggest annual climb in nearly two years on gains in the costs of commodities.
But final goods prices continued to fall in a sign weak domestic demand was keeping Japan in grinding deflation.
Japan's growth probably picked up in July-September mainly because of a last-minute boost from expiring stimulus steps, but analysts expect a steep slowdown in the ensuing quarter as exports lose momentum and consumption cools.
|
| Wertung | Antworten | Thema | Verfasser | letzter Verfasser | letzter Beitrag | |
| 29 | 3.789 | Banken & Finanzen in unserer Weltzone | lars_3 | youmake222 | 10.12.25 11:19 | |
| 469 | 156.440 | Der USA Bären-Thread | Anti Lemming | ARIVA.DE | 08.12.25 18:00 | |
| 55 | PROLOGIS SBI (WKN: 892900) / NYSE | 0815ax | ARIVA.DE | 19.10.25 10:00 | ||
| Daytrading 15.05.2024 | ARIVA.DE | 15.05.24 00:02 | ||||
| Daytrading 14.05.2024 | ARIVA.DE | 14.05.24 00:02 |