Bund, TBond e i Dannati del carry trade. (VM 91)

L'economia americana sta attraversando una fase di transizione. A sostenerlo è Giovanna Mossetti, economista di Intesa Sanpaolo, sulla base delle informazioni economiche contrastanti relative a prezzi e attività che stanno arrivando negli ultimi periodi. Per la riunione di mercoledì prossimo del Fomc, il braccio operativo della Federal Reserve, si avrà uno scenario in miglioramento sia sulla crescita sia sull'inflazione, ma solo due mesi fa la situazione era opposta. "La previsione per il comunicato di maggio è quindi che rimanga invariato rispetto a quello di marzo per quanto riguarda il messaggio di fondo, pur con il riconoscimento che i dati di inflazione stanno migliorando e che la debolezza degli investimenti fissi non residenziali potrebbe ridursi alla luce dei dati più recenti", afferma l'esperta in un report.


L'incertezza sullo scenario economico e sul modello appropriato per valutare l'economia in questa fase a fronte di un mercato del lavoro ancora in piena occupazione è uno dei principali motivi per non fare mosse di politica monetaria, osserva la Mossetti, secondo la quale, in definitiva, "i tassi resteranno fermi ancora a lungo, perché nelle condizioni attuali un errore di valutazione può costare molto caro alla Banca centrale. I costi di rimanere fermi sono invece relativamente limitati". Il Fomc potrebbe intervenire tagliando i tassi solo di fronte a segnali non ambigui di decisa debolezza del mercato del lavoro: "per qualunque trend occorrono diversi mesi e pertanto è difficile immaginare un intervento prima del quarto trimestre", precisa l'analista di Intesa Sanpaolo. La risoluzione di questo nuovo "enigma" macroeconomico, quindi, potrebbe richiedere molto tempo, più di quanto possa concedersi una Banca centrale in una fase di transizione.
 
NO IL DOW verde anche oggi...nun me lo fate vedere....please...

:look: almeno un -0,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000012 lo dovrebbe perdere...forse
 
dan24 ha scritto:
il Daxxxshe...dovrebbe essere pronto...per aprire le danze in questa settimana...ad uno storno tecnico.....che dovrebbe andare da 130 punti ad un max di 330...(difficile)....ma il toro è difficile da abbattere......

poi questo inizio mese con le chiusure un giorno dei mercati europeii..più giorni degli asiatici...ha sconbussolato il tutto..ovvio che il nikkey oggi doveva salire.....vedremo oggi il close...soprattutto del Dow che oramai è al ridicolo
si, ma chi glielo spiega al dow che è ridicolo? lui non se n'è accorto evidentemente... :D
 
leo-kondor ha scritto:
si, ma chi glielo spiega al dow che è ridicolo? lui non se n'è accorto evidentemente... :D

sssssssss nun ti far beccare...che sei short...lo sai che la Sec...potrebbe punirti con 7 anni ..di long contro trend :)
 
volumi...che neanche a ferragosto si vedono...6500 contratti sul fib...231K sull'eurostox...uhmmmm qui gatta ci cova...son tutti in attesa...di vedere che fa la Cina domani? impressionante sbatacchiamento di cogliones....su tutti i mercati...

cmq o stanno per tirare la catenella..visto anche l'OI del fib...salito in questi giorni di movimento laterale...o ci apprestiamo a vedere l'esplosione della vola al rialzo con panic buying...e giornate da +3%
 
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DJ INDU AVERAGE (NYSE) 13285.5000 16:38:00 +0.16% 13310.7000 13260.8000

DJ Transportation average (NYSE) 5170.3800 16:38:00 -0.01% 5194.9900 5168.1300

DJ Utilities average (NYSE) 529.6400 16:38:00 +0.65% 530.8100 526.0900

NASDAQ 100 (Nasdaq) 1900.1100 16:38:00 +0.23% 1901.4200 1896.1000

NASDAQ COMPOSITE (New York) 2576.2800 16:38:00 +0.16% 2580.0600 2572.6400

NYSE Composite (NYSE) 9819.4000 16:38:00 +0.27% 9831.9900 9793.0100

Nasdaq Banks (Nasdaq) 3284.5900 16:38:00 +0.10% 3287.8400 3280.9900

Nasdaq Biotech (Nasdaq) 854.4200 16:38:00 +0.14% 856.0500 853.3300

Nasdaq Computer (Nasdaq) 1120.4600 16:38:00 +0.17% 1121.8200 1117.4700

Nasdaq Financial (Nasdaq) 5415.7300 16:38:00 -0.44% 5447.7600 5406.1600

Nasdaq Financial 100 (Nasdaq) 3191.1700 16:38:00 +0.27% 3198.4400 3187.4100

Nasdaq Industrial (Nasdaq) 2265.2000 16:38:00 +0.09% 2269.8300 2262.2200

Nasdaq Insurance (Nasdaq) 4288.8100 16:38:00 +1.55% 4291.7900 4270.4500

Nasdaq Telecom (Nasdaq) 252.4500 16:38:00 +0.21% 252.7800 252.1100

Nasdaq Transport (Nasdaq) 2907.7900 16:38:00 +0.36% 2916.9300 2903.2600

S&P 500 INDEX (NYSE) 1509.0600 16:37:00 +0.23% 1510.8300 1505.5700


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Weak Dollar? Currency, at 10-Year Low, May Fall More (Update1)

By Bo Nielsen

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who says the dollar is weak after it fetched a record-low $1.3681 against the euro and the fewest pence against the pound in 25 years is expressing a euphemism.

The currency may decline at least another 10 percent by the end of 2008, say Jay Bryson, an economist at Wachovia Corp., and Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. The dollar has only fallen 3.4 percent in the past two years to a 10-year low, according to a Federal Reserve index that weighs trade with 38 countries including China, Mexico, Canada and countries in Europe. It tumbled 30 percent in the three years ended 1988.

``Dollar weakness will be broad-based and could last for years,'' said Bryson, a global economist at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia who previously analyzed currencies at the Federal Reserve.

Investors are dumping dollars, lured by higher returns elsewhere. The U.S. will grow more slowly than Europe for the first time since 2001 and Japan for the first time in 16 years, the IMF forecasts. The difference in yield between 10-year German bonds and Treasuries has shrunk to the smallest since 2004.

The Fed's U.S. Trade Weighted Real Broad Dollar index, a monthly inflation-adjusted gauge of the dollar, has fallen 16 percent since 2002 to 94.27, near the lowest in 10 years. Bryson said it may drop 15 percent by the end of 2008, spurred by a drop of more than 9 percent against China's yuan. Rogoff expects a 10 percent decline.

Growth Lags

The U.S. will expand 2.2 percent this year, compared with 2.3 percent in the euro region and Japan, according to the IMF. The U.S. grew 3.3 percent in 2006. Growth slowed to an annualized 1.3 percent last quarter, the slowest in four years. The global economy is growing at its fastest in a quarter century.

``We are in a situation where Europe and Japan are going to outperform for a couple of years,'' said Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ``There's a depreciation bias in the dollar.''

Central banks and investors are helping spur the dollar's drop. U.S. investors bought 43 percent more foreign stocks and bonds last year than in 2005, Treasury Department data show.

The yield advantage Treasuries have enjoyed over European debt is narrowing. The 4 5/8 percent U.S. Treasury note maturing in February 2017 yields 4.64 percent, about 0.45 percentage point more than the 3 3/4 percent German bund due in January 2017, close to the smallest gap since November 2004.

`Europe Gets Nervous'

Central banks are paring holdings of U.S. assets. The dollar accounted for 64.7 percent of global currency reserves in the fourth quarter, down from 65.8 percent in the prior three months, IMF data show. The euro's share was 25.8 percent, the highest since the currency's 1999 debut. It will rise to 40 percent by 2010, Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, forecasts.

The dollar's depreciation has boosted overseas sales at U.S. exporters including St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M Co., the maker of Post-it Notes, while hurting non-U.S. companies. 3M said currency fluctuations boosted sales 2.5 percent last quarter. Clermont-Ferrand, France-based Michelin & Cie., the world's second-largest tiremaker, said the swings caused a 3.6 percent decline.

``When the euro gains, people in Europe get nervous that it's going to hurt employment,'' said Robert Mundell, an economics professor at Columbia University in New York and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics. ``I don't see the euro in the $1.40s for long.''

Record Low

The dollar fell 3 percent against the euro and 1.7 percent compared with the pound this year. The euro is worth $1.3603 and the pound buys $1.9963 at 8:40 a.m. in London from $1.3591 and $1.9922, respectively, on May 4. The dollar touched $2.0133 per pound last month, the weakest since June 1981.

Many analysts forecast the dollar will rebound next year along with the U.S. economy. The dollar will strengthen to $1.30 by the end of 2008, according to the median forecast of 47 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News through May 4. The U.S. economy will accelerate to a 3 percent growth rate in the first half of 2008, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey on April 10.

The decline in the dollar has helped trim the U.S. trade deficit. The shortfall in the current account, the broadest measure of trade, has shrunk to $195.8 billion in the fourth quarter, equivalent to about 6 percent of the economy, from a record 7 percent in 2005.

Reserves Surge

The deficit is about double the percentage of the gross domestic product that it was in 1985, when the Fed's Real Broad Dollar index began a three-year, 30 percent slide that helped push the U.S. current account into surplus in 1991.

``The main trend is averse to the dollar, not only for psychological reasons but it's because the U.S. is a high- consuming society,'' said Paul Samuelson, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1970.

Asian central banks may also begin to let their currencies appreciate at a faster pace. Dollar purchases by Asian central banks have caused the region's currency reserves to swell seven- fold in the past decade to $3.37 trillion.

The Indian rupee's 5.7 percent gain in the past month has prompted speculation the Reserve Bank of India stopped buying dollars after a record $11.9 billion of purchases in February.

``These countries continue to ratchet up foreign exchange reserves at record rates and one may begin to question the sustainability of that,'' said Lawrence Goodman, head of emerging-market currency strategy at Bank of America Corp. in New York.

To contact the reporter on this story: Bo Nielsen at [email protected] .

Last Updated: May 7, 2007 04:14 EDT
 

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