tommy271
Forumer storico
The €109bn second bail-out for Greece is practically dead on arrival. The dispute between Finland and other eurozone member states over its collateral deal with Athens is the latest setback. The package is already undermined by the limited scope of private sector participation, while Greece is groaning under the burden of meeting its fiscal targets. Even if the Finnish dispute is resolved, the package will not prevent a default by Greece: two-year Greek bonds now yield 46 per cent.
The bail-out package has one overriding flaw – it was designed more to help European banks maintain the fiction that their exposure to Greece was secure than to provide relief for Athens. Even bankers, however, are coming around to the view that the centre cannot hold and are starting to write down their Greek exposure. The collateral dispute may hasten that trend by driving a coach and horses through the convention that new debt does not take priority over existing debt.
It beggars belief that the Greek authorities would enter into such a potentially damaging unilateral deal, under which they have agreed to grant Finland collateral worth 20 per cent of the value of Helsinki’s contribution to the second bail-out. While there is no immediate urgency to ratify the bail-out – Athens has sufficient financing under its original €110bn bail-out from last year to finance its debts until the end of 2011, at least – the dispute is further proof of how politically difficult the crisis has become for policymakers.
The second bail-out throws good money after bad. Citigroup Global Markets estimates that Greece will have to write off at least two-thirds of its debt (other than its debt to the International Monetary Fund), probably in 2013/14, to bring its debt to gross domestic product ratio into line with the eurozone average of 80 per cent. The past few days have brought that reality closer.
in pratica citi annuncia un haircut del 65% circa sulla Grecia. Bello altino direi. Allucinante che la UE non abbia saputo gestire la sistuazione grecia. I greci sono solo il 3% del PIL europeo e invece li abbiamo lasciati fallire inesorablmente. Amen.
Cmq se l'haircut sarà del 65% bisognerebbe comprare almeno sotto i 50/100 e si rischierebbe anche lì di perdre un 15% dell'investito....
IL punto ora è capiere quando farà default. (2012? 2013? 2014? ...Di più non credo.)
Lascia perdere questi ... a sentir loro la Grecia era già defaultata nel febbraio 2010 ...