“(Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers are to agree on Tuesday the details of bolstering their bailout fund to help prevent contagion in bond markets, under pressure from the United States and ratings agencies to staunch a two-year-old debt crisis.”
“The world's major central banks unleashed coordinated action Wednesday to ease the increasing strains on the global financial system, a move that sent stock markets up sharply.
The European Central Bank, U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland are all taking part in the operation, which is designed to "enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system." ”
“ S&P 500 Index 。。。So again, everything is pointing towards a bottom no earlier than the end of December (Orthodox low (higher low)) and no later than mid-February...it all depends how everything pans out.”
“ When the %K in stochastic 2 crosses above the %D in 3, it will generate a buy signal on the weekly chart...this is not likely to occur before mid to late January.”
“a top is not likely to be put in place until late 2012/early 2013”
“This would take the S&P into late January/early February before bottoming.”
“Once wave (XX) completes, then wave (Z) should carry the S&P 500 Index up to at least the 1500-1550 level, potentially even to 1600-1650 in late 2012/early 2013...all based on the US Dollar Index set to decline for most of 2012 and into early 2013. Once a top is put in place for the broad stock market indices, the correction from 2013 into early/mid 2014 will be brutal, with a MINIMUM of a 40-50% correction. The Contracting Fibonacci Spiral the markets are trapped in at the moment has had every signature date have at least a 40-50% correction...the length of corrections that follow are not determined by this Cycle ”
“ a top of 1700 would see a low near 800-850 at some point in late 2013/early 2014.”
“a true bottom will not be put in place until at least the 2nd or 3rd week of December. Note that the lows may have been put in place, but sideways price action should persist until at least mid-December, potentially until near the end of the month.”
David Petch认为至少本月SP500牛不起来,可能明年1月/2月才见底,之后可以大涨到15XX甚至1700于2012年底,2013再跌去40-50%。作者: 何鸿燊 时间: 2011-12-5 11:30
“It is critical for the welfare of billions around the world that Europe get its act together now. The continent faces an increasing probability of having to navigate a fourth potential morphing in the next few months. Should it materialize, this would take one of two forms: either a disorderly and highly disruptive fragmentation of the eurozone, or the establishment of a smaller and less imperfect eurozone that has a different relationship with the rest of the EU.
Both possibilities involve yet another set of immediate disruptions for Europe and the global economy. As such, the temptation among politicians will be to avoid making any active choices. But that would constitute a huge mistake. It would further reduce their future degrees of freedom due to an even narrower set of possibilities and, with that, erode their ability to influence outcomes.
As time passes, the option of a smaller and less imperfect eurozone is becoming the only way to "refound" a union that would have the chance to stand the test of time and, thus, constitute a key component of medium-term efforts to restore global financial stability, meaningful economic growth, and plentiful jobs. It is not an absolute best, and it would be a messy process involving the risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences. Yet, when judged in terms of feasibility and desirability, it sure dominates the alternative of a full fragmentation.”
Sorting Out the Euro Mess - John Mauldin's Outside the Box E-Letter
“...And Now for the Good News
Now let us turn to the good news, at least for the Eurocrats and perhaps, in the short-term, for the European markets. The potential support from the ECB is the one part of the summit deal that could turn out to be much stronger than it seemed at first sight. While Mario Draghi's public statements were less than helpful, they were presumably directed at a German audience, as was Bundesbank president Jens Weidman's astonishing decision on Thursday to vote against even a -25bp rate cut. This seemed to confirm our longstanding view that, whatever the preferences of Angela Merkel and other politicians, the Bundesbank would like to sabotage the Euro if it can. Behind this macho posturing, however, the ECB may be moving towards a programme of sovereign debt monetisation and quantitative easing on a scale that even Ben Bernanke and Mervyn King would never contemplate.
The three-year unlimited liquidity operations announced last Thursday could provide infinite monetary support for European banks and through them, their sovereign debt markets. Once these three-year repos get started, banks in the Club Med countries will be able to borrow as much as they want from the ECB at 1% and use this money to buy government bonds now yielding 6% or more. Because of the unprecedented maturity of these repo-operations, banks will now be able to theoretically acquire unlimited government bond portfolios without exposing themselves to rollover or maturity risks. Banks will therefore be able to pick up 500bp of carry, with zero risk-weightings, by hoovering up all the debt their governments can throw at the markets. Of course there would be risks—we cannot say banks will want to jump on this deal, but in theory they can.
This Ponzi scheme could potentially result in an even bigger money-printing operation than anything the US, British and Swiss central banks have done on their own accounts. It would allow the banks to rebuild their equity with no dilution to shareholders. And if the banks in Italy or Greece became too "profitable" by using cheap ECB funding to buy up their entire sovereign debt markets, then the Italian or Greek governments could always recover the "excess" profits with special taxes. The governments could thus effectively reduce their own cost of funds to the 1% rate offered to banks by the ECB. Of course if the Italian government defaulted on its debts, Italian banks would go spectacularly bust. But these banks would go bust anyway if the Italian government ever defaulted. All the incentives for Italian bank management will therefore be to go for broke in their sovereign debt markets, making maximum use of the new ECB credit lines.
That said, however, the European Banking Authority's recent stress tests forced banks to assume mark-to-market losses in the stressed scenarios. These demands from the EBA may inhibit banks from adding more sovereign risk—unless the EBA uses the "fiscal compact" as an excuse to ease up on the stress tests.
And it is crucial to remember that banks are likely to use the ECB credit lines only to buy the bonds of their own national governments, partly in response to political pressures but also for prudential reasons. If the Euro were ever to break up, Unicredit would not want to own any Greek or Spanish debt, since this would entail unpredictable currency risks. An Italian bond, by contrast, would be redenominated into the new Lira and would be matched perfectly against Unicredit's borrowings from the Bank of Italy, which would also be redenominated into Lira.
Thus, the result of the ECB's covert QE via the banks will be gradually to re-nationalise the banking systems and the sovereign debt structures in Europe. This process will help Club Med countries avoid sovereign debt defaults, but it will make eventual breakup of the euro much less painful– and therefore more likely.”
“At 48.5%, scenario #1 calls for a deluge in January, as part of collapse toward Dow 9500 in the first quarter.
At 47.5%, scenario #2 calls for a drubbing through March, concluding in April in the upper 9000's.
At 4%, the bull scenario includes a reverse-shoulder-head-shoulder breakout and acceleration from levels just overhead (see charts). The Dow would trade essentially flat around 13,000 through the year.”