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| LD (M. Llamas) El tiempo da y quita la razón. Los salvavidas de los bancos centrales para inyectar liquidez en el mercado no han servido absolutamente de nada para recuperar la estabilidad financiera, tal y como avanzó Libertad Digital. Así, se confirma que lo peor del credit crunch (restricción del crédito o falta de liquidez) aún estaba por llegar, pese al optimismo mostrado por algunos de los grandes gurús económicos. Es más, tal y como adelantó este diario, la Fed se encuentra en estos momentos ante una disyuntiva histórica: Acudir al rescate de nuevas entidades financieras y grandes compañías que cotizan en Bolsa, ante la amenaza masiva de quiebras en el mercado estadounidense. De hecho, ya ha tenido lugar un proceso similar, puesto que la Reserva Federal ha puesto en marcha en los últimos meses diversos mecanismos en un intento desesperado por nacionalizar la mala deuda que acumulan los bancos norteamericanos. Sobre todo, los gigantes hipotecarios de EEUU, cuyo riesgo de quiebra se ha disparado en el mercado de derivados (credit-default swaps), tal y como advierte LD. Ante este negro panorama, el presidente de la Reserva Federal Ben Bernanke, y el secretario del Tesoro, Henry Paulson, han reiterado este jueves que los reguladores públicos del mercado financiero necesitan competencias adicionales para proteger a la economía de un posible colapso de una importante compañía de Wall Street. Y ello, apenas dos días después de anunciar la extensión de su programa de créditos de emergencia para apoyar a las empresas que cotizan en la Bolsa estadounidense. Estas recomendaciones forman parte de un debate ante el Comité de Servicios Financieros de la Cámara de Representantes sobre la manera de modernizar el sistema regulador del país, para responder mejor a crisis como las actuales del mercado inmobiliario o de crédito. Según Bernanke, múltilpes firmas están casi en la "bancarrota" Tanto Bernanke como Paulson abogan, así, por nuevas medidas y procedimientos con los que el Gobierno pueda efectuar una liquidación "ordenada" de un banco de inversión en crisis, con el fin de evitar un posible contagio al sistema financiero y la economía en general. Precisamente, Fortis advertía hace escasas fechas del riesgo real de que el sistema financiero de EEUU se viera inmerso en el colapso en apenas unas semanas. Tales procedimientos existen para la banca comercial, pero no para la de inversión, y unas normas claras habrían facilitado la disolución de la firma Bear Stearns, que fue adquirida finalmente por JPMorgan Chase. "A la luz del episodio de Bear Stearns, el Congreso podría analizar si se necesitan nuevas herramientas para asegurar una liquidación ordenada de firmas importantes que se encuentran en el abismo de la bancarrota", según Bernanke. En concreto, Bernanke opina que las reformas en materia reguladora de bancos de inversión deben tener en cuenta la particularidad de este negocio y establecer una "supervisión consolidada" de esas entidades. La Reserva ha abierto un debate con otras agencias federales para reformar la regulación de las instituciones financieras a raíz del colapso de Bear Stearns y las turbulencias financieras provocadas por la crisis de las hipotecas de alto riesgo. El Tesoro de EEUU estudia rescatar a Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac Bernanke no se ha referido en sus declaraciones ante el Comité de Servicios Financieros sobre qué agencia federal debería tener más poder para proteger a la economía de las crisis financieras. El secretario del Tesoro, por su parte, que fue quien recientemente propuso esa reforma, afirma ante el Congreso que "está claro que algunas instituciones, si colapsan, pueden tener un impacto" en la economía y otras empresas, alerta. De hecho, no se trata de ninguna posibilidad remota. El Tesoro de EEUU estudia ya la aplicación de diversos planes de contingencia para acudir al rescate de Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac (los gigantes hipotecarios de EEUU) en caso de que ambas entidades acaben en quiebra, según recoge el diario Wall Street Journal. Según esta información, los reguladores llevan estudiando esta posibilidad desde hace meses, dada la necesidad de capitalización que presentan los balances de ambas entidades, de cuya salud depende además directamente el mercado inmobiliario del país (copan el 80 por ciento de las hipotecas), y una parte sustancial del sector bancario. Las rebajas en las anotaciones ascienden a 1,6 billones de dólares Según un reciente estudio de la entidad de inversión Bridgewater Associates, las pérdidas y la necesidad de ampliar capital aumento apenas ha dado comienzo. Así, según este informe, las entidades financieras retienen en sus balances un importante volumen de activos cuyo valor no es real. En concreto, dicha firma estima que la rebaja (writedowns) en la valoración de activos podría alcanzar una cifra astronómica: 1,6 billones de dólares. De momento, tan sólo ha salido a la luz una parte de estas devaluaciones. Es más, anotaciones por valor de otros 26,6 billones de dólares podrían también estar en riesgo, en caso de aplicar el valor actual de mercado. Según dicho documento, “tenemos grandes dudas de que las instituciones financieras sean capaces de obtener suficiente capital para cubrir las pérdidas. Lo cual empeorará la falta de liquidez o restricción del crédito”, según recoge en un reciente artículo el diario Sonntagszeitung. Bridgewater Associates es el segundo mayor fondo de cobertura crediticia del mundo. Nueva subprime: Tarjetas de crédito, préstamos comerciales... Las pérdidas esperadas se extienden a una amplia gama de productos crediticios, tales como hipotecas, tarjetas de crédito o meros préstamos comerciales, tal y como adelantó LD. La mayoría de estas pérdidas se concentrarían en EEUU. Bridgewater considera que, hasta el momento, las entidades financieras tan sólo han reconocido rebajas de activos por valor de 400.000 millones de dólares (la mayoría por parte de UBS). De este modo, la compañía prevé que las mayores pérdidas en el futuro se concentrarán en EEUU, pudiendo afectar a entidades tales como Citigroup, Bank of America o JP Morgan Chase, entre muchas otras de menor tamaño. EEUU estudia un amplio rescate financiero para evitar el "colapso" de Wall Street - Libertad Digital - Economia
__________________ El Gobierno tiene dos opciones: reducir su abultado gasto o robar al ciudadano. Evidentemente, la segunda opción siempre es la preferida de cualquier Gobierno |
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| Yo lo llevo de firma desde que me registré en este foro. Yalodeciayoismo.
__________________ (Firma desde mayo de 2007) El capitalismo es una gran burbuja que la crisis energética comienza a pinchar. PEAK OIL => escasez crudo => inflación => subida tipos => crisis => guerras y hambre Sólo una economía priorizada podrá crear un sistema sostenible sin el 99% de la población esclavizada. La versión oficial de la caída de los TRES rascacielos del 11S viola las leyes de la física. |
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Menudo artículo, demoledor. 10 estrellas.
__________________ Última edición por Tupper; 10-jul-2008 a las 21:45 |
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| Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Fannie, Freddie Tumble on Bailout Concern, UBS Cut (Update4) By Dawn Kopecki and Shannon D. Harrington July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two biggest providers of financing for U.S. home loans, fell to the lowest levels in 17 years in New York trading after a former Federal Reserve president said the companies may need a government rescue. Fannie Mae tumbled 14 percent and Freddie Mac slumped 22 percent in New York Stock Exchange composite trading after UBS AG analysts said in a report that Freddie Mac's decline creates ``challenges'' for the company's plan to raise $5.5 billion. Chances are increasing that the U.S. will bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they don't have enough capital to weather the worst housing slump since the Great Depression, former St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said in an interview. Freddie Mac owed $5.2 billion more than its assets were worth in the first quarter, making it insolvent under fair value accounting rules. The fair value of Fannie Mae assets fell 66 percent to $12.2 billion, data provided by the Washington- based company show, and may be negative next quarter, Poole said. ``Congress ought to recognize that these firms are insolvent, that it is allowing these firms to continue to exist as bastions of privilege, financed by the taxpayer,'' Poole, 71, who left the Fed in March, said in the interview yesterday. Poole roiled markets in 2003 when he said the government should consider severing its implied backing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the companies lack the capital to weather financial market disruptions. In 2006 and 2007 he called for lawmakers to strip Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of their charters. McCain The companies, created to boost homeownership and promote market stability, own or guarantee about half the $12 trillion in U.S. home loans outstanding. In addition to those obligations, Fannie Mae has $831 billion in company bonds outstanding, while Freddie Mac has $644 billion, according to Bloomberg data. Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said the federal government can't allow them to fail. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ``are vital to Americans' ability to own their own homes,'' McCain said in response to a reporter's question during a campaign stop at a diner in Livonia, Michigan. ``They will not fail; we cannot allow them to fail.'' Fair value accounting measures a company's net worth if it had to liquidate all of its assets to repay liabilities. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which have the implicit backing of the government, make money by borrowing in the bond market and reinvesting the proceeds in higher-yielding mortgages and securities backed by home loans. Stock Price Target Fannie Mae slumped $2.11 to $13.20 today, extending declines for the year to 67 percent. Freddie Mac tumbled $2.26 to $8, taking its 2008 slide to 77 percent. UBS AG analysts led by Eric Wasserstrom in New York increased their estimates for losses at Freddie Mac and cut their price target for the stock to $10 from $28 after meeting with Freddie Mac's chief financial officer Anthony Piszel and controller David Kellerman, according to a report today. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have raised a combined $20 billion since December to cover losses of more than $11 billion generated since the credit crisis began last year. Freddie Mac has yet to raise a planned $5.5 billion, scheduled for mid-year. Paulson, Bernanke U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told lawmakers in Washington today that he's been assured by the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that the companies have enough capital. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight ``has made clear that they are adequately capitalized,'' Paulson said in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke also appeared. The Treasury has been discussing what to do if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fail for months as part of its contingency planning, the Wall Street Journal reported today, citing three people familiar with the matter. The government doesn't expect the companies to fail and it doesn't have a rescue plan in place, the Journal said. ``At some point we're going to reach that inflection, where the government is going to have to either guarantee explicitly or Fannie and Freddie are going to have be left to fend for themselves,'' Peter Boockvar, an equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television yesterday. ``We're getting to that point where a decision has to be made by Washington.'' `Well-Capitalized' The government is counting on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which own or guarantee about half the $12 trillion in home loans outstanding, to help revive the housing market. Congress lifted growth restrictions on the companies, eased their capital requirements and allowed them to buy bigger ``jumbo mortgages'' to spur demand for home loans as competitors fled the market. ``We are managing our business and maintaining a capital position that will allow us to fulfill our congressionally chartered mission now and in the future,'' Brian Faith, a spokesman for Fannie Mae, said. Poole is ``a long-time critic,'' said Sharon McHale, a spokeswoman for McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac. ``Freddie Mac is doing exactly what Congress intended when it chartered the company and, more recently, when it passed the Economic Stimulus Act,'' McHale said. ``We are well capitalized and positioned to continue to serve our vital housing mission.'' Government Ties Congress created Freddie Mac and expanded Fannie Mae in 1970 to promote home buying in the U.S. The companies' charters give the Treasury the authority to buy as much as $2.25 billion in each of their securities in the event of possible default. The government will likely be forced to take over the companies because of the mortgage meltdown, Poole said. ``We know in a crisis the Federal Reserve tap would be open,'' said Poole, now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. The bailout of Bear Stearns Cos. by JPMorgan Chase & Co., arranged by the Fed, demonstrates the government's unwillingness to allow ``large, systemically important'' financial institutions to fail, he said. Bear Stearns collapsed after customers fled amid speculation the company faced a cash shortage. ``I worry about those institutions,'' retired Richmond Fed President Alfred Broaddus said. ``They are huge. They dwarf the Bear Stearns issue. In the very worst case scenario, I don't know how you do it other than extend money and the public takes the loss.'' $20 Billion Raised The companies have access to the Fed's so-called Fedwire payments system allowing them to access funding if needed, said Vincent Reinhart, the Fed's chief monetary-policy strategist from 2001 until September 2007. They can withstand the slump in part because most of their investments are mortgages made before 2006 when lending standards were tighter, making them less likely to default, said Eileen Fahey, a Chicago-based analyst at Fitch Ratings. ``We do not believe they are technically insolvent,'' Fahey said. ``People seem to lose sight of the fact that a majority of the mortgages that they are holding and are guaranteeing were originated pre-2006.'' Comments by the companies' regulator this week that they are adequately capitalized also eased concern, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors in Washington. The companies have about $80 billion of regulatory capital supporting $5.2 trillion of mortgages. ``Just given the size of the two companies, surely the government would not stand aside'' and let them fail, Yun said. Record Spreads Fannie Mae sold $3 billion of two-year notes yesterday to yield 74 basis points more than Treasuries. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point. That's the widest spread since Fannie Mae first sold two-year notes in 2000 and triple what it paid in June 2006. Fannie Mae's spreads relative to two-year interest-rate swap spreads, considered a gauge of investors' perception of credit risk, remain about 12 basis points below a four-year high that was reached in March, Bloomberg data show. Fannie Mae debt was trading 13 basis points tighter than two-year swap spreads today compared with 2 basis points tighter on March 19, Bloomberg data show. Freddie Mac spreads are about 19 basis points tighter than swap spreads after trading at the same level as swaps on March 17. Swap spreads are the difference between interest-swap rates above Treasury yields. Credit-Default Swaps The price of credit-default swaps, contracts used to speculate on the creditworthiness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, doubled in the past two months to more than 80 basis points for the senior debt, according to London-based CMA Datavision. The median credit-default swap on debt rated Aaa by Moody's was 36 basis points as of yesterday, data from the rating firm's strategy group show. It was 87 basis points for debt rated A3. Credit-default swaps are financial instruments based on bonds and loans that are used to speculate on a company's ability to repay debt. They pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a borrower fail to adhere to its debt agreements. A basis point on a contract protecting $10 million of debt from default for five years is equivalent to $1,000 a year. To contact the reporter on this story: Dawn Kopecki in Washington at dkopecki@bloomberg.net; Shannon D. Harrington in New York at sharrington6@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: July 10, 2008 16:23 EDT
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| bah, un 90% de bajada anual no es nada ![]() mejor que caiga al 90% y se la ayude estando mas barata aun ,que se ayude estando arriba no?? que opinais? menos dinero de los impuestos
__________________ ojito con las inmobiliarios ultimas tablas de cajas actualizadas 2006: First, they ignore you (phase 1) 2007: Then, they laugh at you (phase 2) 200 Then, they fight you (phase 3)2009: Then, you win (phase 4) 2010: Now, capitulación |
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| Es un aterricismo suave hombre, lo que pasa es que los de burbuja.info somos un poco alarmistas, eh.
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| Nada, yo sigo en mis trece... |
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| Podrían tomar las medidas que ha propuesto el PP para España, por ejemplo liberalizar el mercado de las telecomunicaciones. Espera, si eso ya está liberalizado en EEUU desde hace años, entonces... ¿por qué tienen problemas si llevan años aplicando las recetas mágicas?. Este Bush va a pasar de ser el peor presidente de EEUU desde la segunda guerra mundial a serlo en toda su historia y eso que según parece ser amigo de este era muy importante para Ejpaña, según decían algunos. |
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LD (M. Llamas) El tiempo da y quita la razón. Los salvavidas de los bancos centrales para inyectar liquidez en el mercado no han servido absolutamente de nada para recuperar la estabilidad financiera, tal y como avanzó Libertad Digital. Así, se confirma que lo peor del credit crunch (restricción del crédito o falta de liquidez) aún estaba por llegar, pese al optimismo mostrado por algunos de los grandes gurús económicos. Es muy simple: ES IMPOSIBLE SALVAR NADA. La propia medida provocará la detonación de lo podrido y lo que aún fuera salvable. Provocará que el Dollar se vaya a CERO.
__________________ La Matriz de la VIDA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Mgl...eature=related 2012 Desde la Exociencia:Cambios para la Humanidad. Mad Max: http://www.syti.net/ES/Targets.html http://www.syti.net/ES/Revolution.html |
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| estamos hablando de tales cantidades de dinero que es para ponerse a temblar, madre mía la que va a caer Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Fannie, Freddie Are Too Big to Fail, Lawmakers Say (Update1) By Dawn Kopecki July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest buyers of U.S. home loans, are too big for the government to let them fail, leading Republican and Democratic lawmakers said. The government-chartered companies, which own or guarantee about half the $12 trillion of U.S. mortgages, can count on a federal lifeline, said Republican Senator John McCain, of Arizona, and Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, of New York. The remarks by the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and the head of the congressional Joint Economic Committee followed a slide in the firms' shares to the lowest level since 1991. They indicate Congress would push the administration to use government funds to prevent the companies from failing and threatening a deeper housing recession. ``They must not fail,'' McCain said today during a campaign stop in Belleville, Michigan. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ``are vital to Americans' ability to own their own homes,'' he said at an earlier stop in the state, one of the worst affected by the surge in foreclosures. Central banks, pension funds and other investors hold $5.2 trillion in debt sold by the companies. While bondholders can count on a backstop, equity investors can't expect the government to halt a tumble in the companies' shares, Representative Spencer Bachus, the senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said today. Fannie Mae slid 14 percent today to close at $13.20 in New York, down 67 percent this year. Freddie Mac declined 22 percent to close at $8, bringing its slump since the end of December to 77 percent. `Continued Woes' Stockholders should be prepared for more ``difficulties,'' said Kevin Flanagan, a fixed-income strategist in Purchase, New York, for Morgan Stanley's individual investor clients. ``Continued woes, continued difficulties are the expectation, and this is going to take a while to play itself out.'' Freddie Mac owed $5.2 billion more than its assets were worth in the first quarter, making it insolvent under fair-value accounting rules. The fair value of Fannie Mae assets fell 66 percent to $12.2 billion, data provided by the Washington-based company show, and may be negative next quarter, former St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said. ``Markets should be assured that the federal government will stand by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,'' Schumer said in a statement today. They ``are too important to go under,'' and Congress ``will act quickly'' if necessary, he said. Central Role Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, while noting the central role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in ending the mortgage-finance crisis, today refrained from endorsing any extra federal backing for the companies. The companies ``are playing a very important and vital role right now,'' Paulson said in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee. They ``need to continue to play an important role in the future,'' he said. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ``are well capitalized now'' in ``a regulatory sense,'' Bernanke told the panel. Still, the companies, like all financial institutions, need ``to expand their capital bases so that they can be even more proactive in providing credit and support for the economy,'' the Fed chief said. The federal government can't afford to take over all of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's operations, because such a move would more than double federal government debt outstanding and ``have disastrous consequences for the dollar,'' said Joshua Rosner, an analyst with Graham Fisher & Co. Inc. in New York. Limited Liability Instead, the government could move the companies' combined $1.5 trillion investment portfolios into a separate limited liability corporation that would gradually liquidate the assets, Rosner said. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would still be able to support the U.S. housing market by packaging home loans into securities they guarantee. The U.S. Treasury, which analysts said would play a central role in any rescue of the firms, currently has the authority to buy $2.25 billion in each of the companies' debt. Congress created Fannie Mae during the Great Depression to revive the housing market and formed Freddie Mac in 1970. While a federal rescue is ``premature,'' Representative Paul Kanjorski said lawmakers should prepare for more trouble. ``I don't think any of us could anticipate all the contingencies that can happen,'' said Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. ``We recognize that we're in very dangerous waters, very stormy. We should have contingencies.'' Rescue Option A rescue shouldn't be an option, said Representative Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the fiscally conservative Republican Study Committee. ``The government should not be supporting the system as is,'' said Hensarling, of Texas. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a ``government-sanctioned duopoly'' that ``no longer helps the market in the way that it once did'' while posing ``a huge systemic risk'' to the economy. In a sign that bondholder confidence is firm, the difference in yields between Fannie Mae's 10-year notes and 10- year U.S. Treasury bonds narrowed by 2.2 basis points today from a four-month high of 89.9 basis points Monday. Freddie Mac's yield narrowed 2 basis points relative to 10-year Treasuries from a four-month high Wednesday of 96 basis points. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the companies' regulator, said today it deemed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ``adequately capitalized.'' Investors should heed Ofheo's comments, said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``I would hope that people would not react to a sense of panic or whatever and would look at the reality and that we'll be okay,'' Frank told reporters. To contact the reporter on this story: Dawn Kopecki in Washington at dkopecki@bloomberg.net Last Updated: July 10, 2008 1 52 EDT |
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