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    So. Many. Bailout questions

    A few, initial head-scratchers at pixel time. First, the Greek debt deal: 1) Greece’s debt will remain 120 per cent of GDP a decade hence, even under the 50 per cent bondholder haircut. (As the debt sustainability analysis by the Troika warned.) Does that look like a safe number to you...
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    Germany 55 billion Euro richer after accounting error at Hypo "bad bank"

    Germany is better off to the tune of €55.5bn after a government-backed “bad bank” set up to deal with the problem assets of Hypo Real Estate, a nationalised mortgage lender, admitted a mistake in its accounting. Correcting the error reduces Germany’s national debt by 2.6 percentage...
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    German Constitutional Court Halts EFSF Approval, Issues Temporary Injunction

    Actually, TsingTao the headline is quite misleading. The constitutional court is not halting the EFSF - it is halting the parlamentarian decision making process. The whole German parliament has to decide on the matter. So what? Do you think the Germanz want their economy being put into...
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    Americans ‘Hooked’ on Government Benefits

    Political dysfunction is often blamed for Congress’s inability to curb the U.S. budget deficit. An even bigger obstacle may be the American public. A record 49 percent of Americans live in a household where someone receives at least one type of government benefit, according to the U.S...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Strong sell 6344.50. Target below 6177.50.
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Wherever the closing price of FDAX for this developing 4 hour time frame (closing price is at 18:00 CET = sell FDAX aggressively.
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    Commerzbank CEO sells all government bonds on banks books

    Die Commerzbank will so viele ihrer verbliebenen Staatsanleihen verkaufen wie möglich. Vorstandschef Martin Blessing sagte nach einem Treffen im Club Hamburger Wirtschaftsjournalisten, das Bankhaus habe im dritten Quartal vor allem Kredite für die sogenannten PIIGS-Staaten weiterverkauft...
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    Italy Bond Yields Rise at Auction, 10-Year Bond Auction Yield at New Euro Era High

    http://www.cnbc.com/
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    EU Bank Debt Plan May Struggle to Thaw Funding Market

    European banks, which need to refinance more than $1 trillion of debt next year, may struggle to fund themselves until policy makers follow through on a pledge to guarantee their bond sales. European Union leaders promised this week to “urgently” look at ways to guarantee bank debt in a...
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    Life insurance holders to shoulder 2/3 of losses of PIGS debt

    European insurers, which hold about 8 percent of southern euro-zone sovereign debt, may survive writedowns without raising capital by passing losses onto customers. Life insurance policyholders will shoulder about two-thirds of the potential losses insurers face on their 235 billion euros...
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    George Osborne to block IMF cash for eurozone bail-out

    The Chancellor made the promise in the Commons as he faced growing pressure from his own party to repatriate powers from Europe. Mr Osborne said he would not allow the International Monetary Fund, which is partly bankrolled by British taxpayers, to provide money for the new euro bail-out...
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    Germany´s central banks warns:"rescue measure too dependent on high-risk deals"

    Hours after an all-night summit of euro governments ended, flaws began to emerge in a package that was billed as a “grand and comprehensive” solution to the European debt crisis. The concerns were led by Germany’s powerful central bank, which expressed fears that a plan to leverage a...
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    The devil is in the details and the data of the EU deal

    For many analysts combing over the three-part deal to restore confidence in the eurozone, the most important things were not what was in the agreement – but what was left out. On almost every major issue, particularly the second €130bn Greek bail-out and increasing the firepower of the...
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    MF Global announcement

    7 cents per side? Sweet. :)
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    Greece is the 1st to fall in the establishment of the 4th Reich?

    Mutti! Ha, ha, ha !!! ROFL! :D
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    MF Global announcement

    MF Said to Seek Buyer in Days for Futures Unit MF Global Holdings Inc. is seeking a buyer for its futures brokerage unit and is looking to strike a deal within days, said two people with knowledge of the matter. MF Global has been contacting large banks already in the futures business...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Gentleman, what a rally. Fabulous. Short reminder: there is a large gap today from the closing price yesterday 6077 to today´s opening price 6177.50. Although gaps do not mean that much nowadays. But just keep that in mind. Otherwise, I will have to close the 6450 leg of my strangles...
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    Dow´s best October ever....

    With a little more than two trading days left in the month, it is shaping up to be the best October ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And that is saying something, since the Dow has existed since 1896, 115 years ago. As of mid-day trading on Thursday, the Dow INDU is ahead more than...
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    FT´s commentator finds of course a fly in the ointment of Europe´s deal

    I think there is and was enormous political pressure on banks to NOT do so. Merkel and Sarkozy were actually walking across the street in Brussels "to persuade" the bank(st)ers....
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    German Dax up +4,3%

    http://index.finanztreff.de/indizes_einzelwerte.htn?i=159096 Deutsche Bank up +14%....
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