Aggiungo un contributo interessante da un blog della rete del WSJ online. Il debito pubblico greco a scadenza 6 mesi (ottobre 2010) rende circa il 6,4% lordo (fonte riportata RBS Research) mentre mercoledì della scorsa settimana rendeva fra il 5,2% ed il 5,6% nel corso della giornata.
Il decennale rende poco sopra il 7% lordo.
La tesi che si sostiene, assumendosi che la Grecia andrà dall'UE/FMI presto o tardi per farsi aiutare, piuttosto che defaultare, è che questa possa essere una opportunità almeno sul debito cortissimo.
Il punto è che più tempo passa, più il mercato credo voglia "vedere le carte", temendo magari che la Grecia possa nascondere situazioni ancora incognite e che acuirebbero la gravità della crisi (però, mi viene da dire, non lo avrebbe fatto anche all'UE, altrimenti sarebbe un caso di banditismo allo stato puro, roba da farsi buttare fuori da tutto).
Is Greece About to Default? - MarketBeat - WSJ
Is Greece About to Default?
By Dave Kansas
There’s lots of attention on the long-end of the Greek debt curve, and rightfully so. That’s where the government needs to get a lot of funding work done in the next couple of months, and yields remain high, surpassing 7.1% at one point Tuesday.
But action on the short-end is also gaining a lot of attention. Amid reports of Greek bank selling, short-term Greek bond yields have soared in the past two days. On Wednesday Greek treasury bills with a rough six-month equivalence yielded as much as 6.4%, according to RBS Research. That would be about double what T-bills yielded the morning before and almost six percentage points (or six hundred basis points in Wall Street lingo) more than similar German debt.
Later on Wednesday, October 2010 T-bills sported a yield between 5.2% and 5.6%, underscoring the volatility at the short-end of Greece’s government debt market.
These are giant yields for short-term government debt, especially in the euro-zone. They are signaling one of two things: A looming default or a great buying opportunity.
In anticipation of a default, the yield curve flattens abruptly with short-term yields rising rapidly to match the higher yields for long-term bonds. Long-term bonds already reflect, at least in part, the default debate. It’s when that debate moves closer to reality that the short-term debt suddenly transforms from relatively safe to very risky, driving yields sharply higher as prices, which move in the opposite direction of the yield, plunge.
Is Greece about to default? Hard to say, but it seems more and more likely that Athens will have to tap the EU-IMF aid package sometime soon.
If that happens, then short-term Greek debt might be a bargain. “Greece is not a standalone country,” says Havinder Sian, bond strategist at RBS in London. He says the EU-IMF package means sovereign debt risk is “very muted” over the next year or so.
Longer term, Mr. Sian is less upbeat about Greece funding its obligations. But he doesn’t think the current very high short-term yields make a lot of sense.