US hedge funds bet against Italian bonds

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No, this is an erroneous rumor... ECB IS NOT IN THE MKT.
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Really? Well I wonder who is collapsing those bond spreads then. Someone earned a nice buck out of that rumour.
 
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Really? Well I wonder who is collapsing those bond spreads then. Someone earned a nice buck out of that rumour.
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Not sure, but things have settled down a lot on the back of a reasonably good BOT auction and some promises out of Italy. Nobody has actually seen the ECB buying.
 
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Not sure, but things have settled down a lot on the back of a reasonably good BOT auction and some promises out of Italy. Nobody has actually seen the ECB buying.
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I suppose it's not really a bad thing they're calling for an end to Bunga Bunga in Italy with some resigny business. Of course the opposition but I think that his own party may be getting fed up too.
 
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I suppose it's not really a bad thing they're calling for an end to Bunga Bunga in Italy with some resigny business. Of course the opposition but I think that his own party may be getting fed up too.
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Well, he's weathered worse, so who knows...
 
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I think the latest Italian problems are entirely of their own creation. The whole Berlusconi/Tremonti saga is a total disgrace. If Tremonti goes, I think there's really not much hope for Italy, with Bunga-Bunga Boy fully in charge.
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maybe if Obama and Congress were doing the bunga bunga the US would be better in shape.
"the only time the country is safe when Congress is not in session."
 
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322bps to bunds now; 10y yield at 5.84%

This is now getting downright fugly.
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All change... BTPS now tighter on the day.

296bps to bunds; 10y yield at 5.64%
 
Yes. Bless those rosy-coloured glasses US hedge funds after all! :D

This looks a bit opportunistic while the issues still largely stand. The main issue being that instead of saying "OK we'll fix this" the party line is "Damn those dasterdly hedgefunds!".

It's not really the sort of stuff crisis reversals are made of although the bank stocks are really loving it to bits right now.
 
Quote from Martinghoul:

I think the latest Italian problems are entirely of their own creation. The whole Berlusconi/Tremonti saga is a total disgrace. If Tremonti goes, I think there's really not much hope for Italy, with Bunga-Bunga Boy fully in charge.
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He actually resisted some colleagues calls for stepping down...Thank God, he didn´t....
 
Can anyone with a bloomie tell me what the (inverse) correlation between the equity markets and the IT-DE bond spread is now? A graph would be nice if it's not too much trouble :p
 
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