Earlier today in “Bank Blood Letting” I wrote, Bank of America has lost lost $33 billion of its market value in a single week. Unless these losses are magically erased by spectacular gains, and soon, we will see forced selling of assets as banks try to raise capital. A few hours later this from Reuters, …
RBS has lost a quater of its share value in the last two weeks. Not far off 10% in the last two days. The British tax payer has so far lost 50% of the money, our taxes, that the government invested in it. Commerzbank in Germany just announced a 93% drop in profts due to …
Heeere we go! What looks like a bank run-style exit by investors in SocGen in France and Intesa in Italy. There have been fairly massive outflows of money from Italy to Switzerland for a few days. Now it seems its the turn of the investors and Bond holders to run for the exits. They’ve been …
Intesa in Italy and Soc Gen in France – investors run for the exits – bank run style. Read More »
Two headlines which when put together tell the story that the financial press has not seen fit to point out. Headline one from The Wall Street Journal – BofA Sells Part of Mortgage Portfolio to Fannie Mae Headline two from The Washington Post – Fannie and Freddie ask for $7 billion more The first article …
Pillaging the American Tax Payer – how it’s done. Read More »
So just a quick round up on the day for all those who thought that the authorities had everything back in hand. In the UK, Wolverhampton and Manchester are alight. I have little experience of Wolverhampton. But Manchester is a central pocket based around Market Street, basically rebuilt with Russian mafia money..sorry investment, which brought …
Brits riot, Iranians crack a joke and the FED argue among themselves Read More »
Governments and markets bleat on so wetly like slack jawed drunkards, about restoring confidence. Well here is an idea. Not a big idea, but an achievable one. Take one bank, just one will do, one mostly publicly owned and audit it for its debt. Audit it in public. A debt commission for a public bank. Brush …
A Debt Commision for the publically owned Banks like RBS. Read More »
Today after opening way down yet again, Europe’s exchanges have clawed their way up. London is positive, Paris is 0.5% down with only Frankfurt still down 2,5%. While in America futures have been up and down faster than a whore’s draws. Which is most un-pc but chosen advisedly. Because that is how the markets see …
Just a few quick observations on the day. I find it interesting that when you look at the European exchanges they stack up like this – London -3.39Paris -4.68Frankfurt -5.02Milan(MIB) -2.35Madrid(IBEX) -2.44 While in the …
According to Bloomberg, The Euribor, the European equivalent of the Libor (remember that from 2008?) is locking up as banks decline to lend to each other. Those European banks that do have money are putting it in the ECB overnight in preference to lending it to the European banks that desperately need it – such …
On this morning’s Today Programme (Radio 4) there was a spokesperson for one of the UK banks (Stephen Hester of RBS), discussing the current economic turmoil in Europe and the US. Essentially the message from the contributor was that the banks are just innocent victims in all this! The gist of the claim is that …
Guest Post by Hawkeye – Banks: victims or perpetrators? Read More »
