Die Pleite des Hedgefonds LTCM und die Asienkrise hatten im Herbst 1998 die Märkte stark einbrechen lassen. Einen ähnlichen Credit Crunch, ausgehend von BBB-Junk-Bonds, die weitere Bonität verlieren, sieht BoA aktuell kommen. Dabei spielen auch die global rückläufigen QE-Aktivitäten der Zentralbanken (Chart unten) eine Rolle.
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-29/...tcm-and-1998-asia-crisis
In recent weeks, Bank of America's strategists have turned decidedly gloomy on the market and the economy, warning on one hand that Europe simply can not be allowed to enter a recession as some €800BN in BBB-rated debt risks becoming a "falling angel" and flooding the junk bond market, while at the same time also warning that the global liquidity ushered in by QE has already turned negative.
Now, in the latest "scare piece" by the bank's Chief Investment Strategist, Michael Hartnett - who correctly predicted the February market tumble to the dot - puts together all the recent events that have troubled markets, namely: Fed tightening, US decoupling, flattening yield curve, collapsing EM, outperforming levered quant funds, and says that these are "all echoes of 20 years ago."
He is, of course, referring to the 1998 Asia/LTCM crisis, which he defines as a perfect example late-cycle global credit event inducing deleveraging/crash. ....
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