S&P Futures Open on Friday’s Lows, Italy Pulls a Hank Paulson Bailout

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*ITALY SAID TO WEIGH $44 BILLION INJECTION IN BANKS AFTER BREXIT

Italy’s banks we’re substantial under-performers Friday, off nearly 20% over the last 3 trading sessions.  As we stressed last year to subscribers, zombie banks in Europe hold over $1T of bad debts, Italy’s stake of smelly loans is near $400B.

Italy is considering a 40 billion euros ($44 billion) bailout of it’s banking system. 

Fresh capital for the country’s banks, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported Monday, citing government and financial sources it doesn’t identify. – Bloomberg

The government would sell debt to fund the capital injections and is talks with the European Commission, Il Fatto said. Governments can provide funds directly to banks in exceptional circumstances of systemic stress, which Italy would cite as a reason for its intervention in the aftermath of Brexit, the Italian daily newspaper reported.

Italy’s lenders are over-loaded with 360 billion euros of bad debt, while profit is also squeezed by record-low interest rates and sluggish economic growth.

 

The plunging in financial markets continued Monday.

The pound extending its record one-day selloff after the U.K.’s vote to exit the European Union threw British politics into turmoil, fueling anxiety over the decision’s impact on the wider global economy.

– Wall St has gone from entirely Yen Bears to Bulls: the Yen Brexit Surge is Seen Testing 95 in Threat to BOJ Stimulus Goals.
– Brexit vote was like a ‘Black Swan event,’ PineBridge
– In panic mode, HSBC changes their year-end dollar-yen target to 95 from 115, Goldman had a 125 dollar yen target in December, she touched 100 on Friday.

 

Every 1 handle move in the yen’s stronger currency, costs companies in Japan nearly $15m, the Bank of Japan will be forced to act, yet again.

China weakened its currency fixing by the most since last August as global market turmoil spurred by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent the dollar surging.

The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate 0.9 percent weaker at 6.6375 a dollar. A gauge of the greenback’s strength jumped 2.4 percent in the past two days, the most since 2011, as the British pound and the euro tumbled. The yuan dropped 0.3 percent to 6.6473 as of 6:44 p.m. in Shanghai, heading for its weakest close since December 2010. – Bloomberg

LEVERAGE

Central Bank Bal Sheets

After levering up for 8 years, central banks have brought the world on the brink of recession.

Bank of Japan sets emergency meeting tonight.

Hillary Clinton, speaking in Indianopolis at Conference of Mayors, said U.S. will also recover “from all the other shocks that are in the system” after saying Americans lost about $100b from their 401ks following the U.K.’s Brexit vote.

Front Month VIX Futures surged up to 22.50 while 8 months out stand at 22.67, the curve is nearly inverted, a classic sign of severe panic.

S&P Futures

The rout in riskier assets picked up where it left off Friday, with the Australian dollar slipping with the euro as as U.S. and Japanese index futures fell with New Zealand shares. The Norwegian krone tumbled more than 2 percent as oil dropped a second day. Sterling sank beyond $1.35, extending losses near weakest level since 1985 as investors face months of uncertainty over Britain’s future amid turmoil within the two major political parties and Scotland agitating anew for independence. Angst boosted the yen and gold, amid demand for havens following the worst day for global stocks in almost five years.

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One thought on “S&P Futures Open on Friday’s Lows, Italy Pulls a Hank Paulson Bailout”

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