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European Equities Underperforming Credit As Sovereigns Stable

Overnight excitement from the RBA (no rate cut) and concerns at China's GDP growth given a European recession did nothing to initially slow risk markets early on as they reached up to yesterday's highs...

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TWiSTeD DiCKeNS DaY 2012

The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into...

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Fed's Record Setting Money Supply Splurge Spurs Gold's Rally

From Gold Core Fed's Record Setting Money Supply Splurge Spurs Gold's Rally Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,720.00, EUR 1,308.98, and GBP 1,087.56 per ounce. Yesterday's AM fix was USD...

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Frontrunning: February 7

Please - we beg you, help us - IMF Urges Beijing to Prepare Stimulus (WSJ) Stalemate in talks on Greek austerity measures (Telegraph) U.S. Sets Money-Market Plan (WSJ) Forty States Sign On to...

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Daily US Opening News And Market Re-Cap: February 7

From RanSquawk Greek PM due to meet with party leaders some time after 1600GMT, according to Greek press. SNB says it will not tolerate EUR/CHF breaching the 1.2000 level. RBA unexpectedly hold base...

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Today's Events: Bernanke Testimony, JOLTs, Consumer Credit

All day today - Greek political leaders met to discuss detailed spending cuts, as unions called their first general strike of the year. 10 am - Fed Chairman Benjamin Bernanke will testify before the...

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European Nash Equilibrium Collapses - Bank Bailout Stigma Is Back At The...

In all the excitement over the December 21 LTRO, Europe forgot one small thing: since it is the functional equivalent of banks using the Discount Window (and at 3 years at that, not overnight), it...

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European FX Swap Line Usage With NY Fed Rises To Fresh Multi-Year High As...

While the disclosure of New York Fed's FX swap line usage with the ECB continues to be between 1 and 2 weeks delayed, courtesy of our ECB friends/Goldman alumni, who post swap line usage in real time,...

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Risk Off As ECB Says Rumor Is Actually Not Fact

But, but, but... ECB NOT YET DECIDED ON WHETHER TO CONTRIBUTE TO GREEK DEBT RESTRUCTURING - EURO ZONE SOURCES The V-Fib pattern formerly known as the EURUSD not happy. EURUSD on the news: More from...

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Guest Post: Why Our Currency Will Fail

Submitted by ChrisMartenson.com Why Our Currency Will Fail The idea that the very same economic forces that are currently plaguing Greece, et al., are somehow not relevant to the United States'...

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Goldman Conducts Poll On Latest European Deus Ex, Finds Respondents Expect...

We have discussed forecasts for the second (and certainly not last ) February 29 3 Year LTRO in the past, with expectations for its size ranging from €1 trillion all the way up to a mindboggling €10...

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S&P Threatens US With Another Downgrade In As Little As 6 Months

Will A be the new AA+? Perhaps, if the S&P follows through with its latest threat. Bloomberg reports that, "the U.S., lacking a plan to contain $1 trillion deficits, faces the prospect of another...

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New York Fed Is Back To Transacting Opaquely, Sells AIG Holdings To Goldman

The last time the Fed tried to dump Maiden Lane 2 assets via a public auction in a BWIC manner, it nearly crashed the credit market. This time, the FRBNY, headed by one ex-Goldman Sachs alum Bill...

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Treasury Market About Face - Just a Blip or Sign of Things To Come?

Treasury Market About Face - Just a Blip or Sign of Things To Come? Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner In my last email to you I mentioned that the bulge in withholding tax collections...

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$24 Billion 10 Year USTs Sold In Unremarkable Auction

The Treasury just sold $24 billion 10 Years in a completely unremarkable bond auction, which was virtually a carbon copy of the January sale of 10 Year, except with a slight drop in the Bid To Cover,...

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(Broke) Monkey See, (Broke) Monkey Do

From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors Monkey See, Monkey Do Irish Finance Minister saying that whatever the ECB does with Greece would be of interest to Ireland.  So if ECB forgives Greek debt...

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Bill Gross Explains The European Ponzi

Not like it is news, but... Out of one pocket, into another, and in the mean time "things get better" as Gross explains below. That said, we hope Bill knows where Allianz of A&G fame (which just...

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Bernanke Talks His Book

Bernanke Talks His Book By Bruce Krasting  Bernanke’s testimony to the House last week and to the Senate yesterday held no surprises. Ben has promised to maintain monetary policy at DEFCON 4 levels for...

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Summary Of Greek Reform "Pledges"

At this point everyone is so habituated to worthless updates from Greece that we are shocked Bloomberg even noticed. Either way, here is latest Greek headline tape bomb, via BBG, which looks at a...

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Guest Post: Consumer Credit And The American Conundrum

Submitted by Lance Roberts of StreetTalk Advisors Consumer Credit And The American Conundrum What to do?  This is not as an innocuous question as one might think.  For most American families, who have...

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