"How can I know what I think until I read what I write?" – Henry James


There are a few lone voices willing to utter heresy. I am an avid follower of Ilusion Monetaria, a blog by ex-Bank of Spain economist (and monetarist) Miguel Navascues here.
Dr Navascues calls a spade a spade. He exhorts Spain to break free of EMU oppression immediately. (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

jueves, 18 de agosto de 2011

Bolsas y bancos. Dólares en Europa.

bolsas en caída, mercados de bonos subiendo. El bono USA a 10 años, en el 2,05%, el más bajo en 70 años. El alemán, en el 2,10%.
¿Pour quei? por lo de siempre.
Por cierto, ¿qué pasaría si la FED hiciera como el BCE
y subiera los tipos de interés? que algún banco europeo lo iba a pasar mal.
Aquí, en el FT, datos sobre bancos europeos que circundan a su banco central, el BCE, y se nutren de dólares mediante sus filiales en USA, o a través de lo swaps entre bancos centrales que se montaron con la crisis (sistema de proporcionar liquidez en moneda no local a bancos en apuros). El BCE ha desvelado que
The European Central Bank’s disclosure that it had provided $500m to a bank – the biggest sum since May 2010 – shows that one eurozone institution is struggling to raise dollars. No wonder the Federal Reserve Bank of New York wants to check how big European banks fund their US operations. If traditional funding sources have been spooked by their eurozone debt exposure, the banks might struggle to meet their US obligations. The New York Fed’s concern should remind eurozone politicians that their failure to resolve the sovereign debt crisis is a risk to global financial stability.
Esto debería alarmar al BCE, y ya ha alarmado a la FED, pues es una señal de stress que le debería decir que algo está haciendo mal. Porque no parece que es que necesiten dólares, es que parece que coinciden sus necesidades con que se pongan en duda su solvencia:
US money market funds, although a small proportion of overall European bank funding, give an idea of the risk: they have reduced both maturities and funding lines. BBVA and Santander, Spanish banks with US retail units, had a foretaste last year when they struggled to raise dollar funds. This year, as investors fret about Italy’s sovereign risk, it is Italian lenders that are looking for alternative short-term funding as US sources hug the sidelines. In July alone, their usage of ECB repo lines increased by €40bn to compensate, Morgan Stanley notes. French banks are also big users of US money funds (perhaps €50bn for BNP Paribas and €38bn for Société Générale, the broker estimates) but their ECB usage rose by much less, suggesting they could roll over dollar funding, but perhaps only at shorter maturities. 
 O sea, dificultades financieras, por cierre de fuentes habituales, obligan a buscar fondos el dólares. Mientras, el BCE, tocando la flauta. ES como Nerón, tocando la flauta mientras arde Roma.

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