Derivati USA: CME-CBOT-NYMEX-ICE T-Bond,Bund,Gold: The pirates of deflinflation island (4 lettori)

Sharnin 2

Forumer storico
Il petrolio come metafora
12 Dec 2008
A cura di Rocki Gialanella

Si denomina contango una situazione del mercato petrolifero in cui il prezzo del barile aumenta sulla scia dell’allungamento dei tempi di consegna della merce

Attualmente il mercato del petrolio sta vivendo una fase di contango simile a quelle sperimentate dieci anni fa: il prezzo per la consegna a dicembre è di 44 Usd nel mercato Nymex e quello di consegna a dicembre del prossimo anno (2009) è a quota 62 Usd.

In siffatto contesto, acquistare un barile di petrolio oggi e conservarlo per i prossimi dodici mesi offre un rendimento del 40%. Secondo l’agenzia Bloomberg, le grandi società petrolifere stanno optando per l’adozione di questa modalità per guadagnare denaro in tempi stretti. Sempre secondo le agenzie di stampa, sarebbero state contattate ben 16 superpetroliere per convincerle a rimanere ferme nei porti con il loro prezioso carico di oro nero. Nel complesso, sedici petroliere sono in grado di accogliere 26 milioni di barili, valutati circa 1.000 milioni di Usd. Tuttavia, in questo modo le navi verrebbero utilizzate per scopi ben diversi da quelli per cui sono state costruite.

Il potenziale taglio alla produzione che dovrebbe essere apportato nella prossima riunione dell’OPEC potrebbe fornire un’ulteriore accelerazione del contango. Questa situazione si scontra con i pronostici di numerosi analisti, che continuano a credere in un’accelerazione del trend discendente dei prezzi del greggio: stando alle ultime ipotesi potrebbe raggiungere i 25 Usd al barile se la Cina dovesse entrare in recessione.

La metafora delle petroliere cariche di greggio e ancorate alle coste, serve per illustrare la situazione economica generale: non si muove foglia, in attesa di tempi migliori. Le compagnie petrolifere hanno il vantaggio di conoscere le modalità di quotazione delle aspettative sul prezzo della commodity. Il resto del mondo non può beneficiare di tale vantaggio. Nel frattempo, le Banche Centrali stanno cercando di rimettere in moto l’economia con forti iniezioni di liquidità nel mercato del credito, ma finora le entità finanziarie hanno mostrato ritardi enormi nel percepire lo stimolo e ‘girarlo’ al mercato. E la forte caduta del consumo non è imputabile solo alla sensibile crescita della disoccupazione. La riduzione dei consumi è contemporaneamente conseguenza e causa della disoccupazione.

Una volta che i mercati finanziari saranno riusciti a ricomporsi, il problema principale delle economie potrà essere risolto solo agendo sulle aspettative. Si possono tagliare i tassi di interesse, si può lanciare un nuovo piano di investimenti nelle infrastrutture, ma non si possono obbligare le imprese ad assumere i lavoratori o i consumatori ad aumentare i propri consumi.

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gipa69

collegio dei patafisici
12/12/2008 1:39:43 PM Eastern Time


NEW YORK, NY So the United Auto Workers union (UAW), which spent money to get votes out against Republicans, says if President Bush gets TARP money to the US automakers, he could go out on a positive note. This is just ridiculous. Making this whole thing boil down to what happens in the next few hours or days insults the intelligence of everyone that has A) bought a Japanese car in the last five years, B) bought a US car in the last five years and felt robbed by poor service and exorbitant repair expenses or C) just believes it is unfair to pour hard earned money into this situation when there aren't enough concessions being offered. Of course there is also the group that falls under D) just don't like government bailouts especially when their personal world is coming under immense pressure. I think a deal will be cut over the weekend but the unions simply have to give up more. The notion they should have assurances until 2011 or later is preposterous when most Americans are worried about job security for the next few weeks or months.

By the way, management is more at fault than the unions but executives at these companies have already said they are willing to take major haircuts including working for a buck for the next year. I'm sure the American public is confused by all of this drama but it didn't happen overnight and blaming politicians is simply disingenuous at this point. For a plan to truly work, the industry needs to get concessions from all sides including debt holders and suppliers. Speaking of Americans there was a slight surprise in today's consumer confidence report from the University of Michigan. The longer trend is still intact and the expectations figure declined to a reading o 52.4 from 53.9 underscoring the continued anxiety that things are going to get worse before they get better.


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Flight to Safety
David Urani, Analyst


For the past few days, yields on Treasury bills have fallen to record lows. The Treasury auctioned 3-month, 6-month and 12-month treasuries with 0% yields today as demand continues to pile up forcing prices higher (yields move lower as prices move higher and vice versa). In fact, there has been excessively large demand during treasury auctions, despite the extremely low yields. At one point, yields turned slightly negative in the secondary market, meaning that businesses were willing to actually pay to put their money into the safe hands of the Treasury, in other words, companies were willing to pay $1 today to get $0.99 back when the bond matures. There is so little faith that equities will perform that taking zero return is widely seen as a better alternative to taking any sort of risk. At the end of the year, it makes sense that treasuries would see more activity, considering many funds have extra cash that they need to invest, a form of window dressing. However, it may also be a sign that a continued bear market looms ahead as these funds pull their resources out of the stock and corporate bond markets. Furthermore, the fact that at a point in time investors were actually willing to book a loss on treasuries with negative yields may signify that these investors believe further deflation is ahead, and that even if they receive less money at maturity than they put in, each dollar will be worth more, relatively.


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Business Inventories
Carlos Guillen, Analyst


Earlier today the U.S. Census Bureau revealed its monthly data results for Manufacturing and Trade (includes retail, wholesale, and manufacturing) inventories and revenues. According to the results, revenues totaled $1.119 trillion, representing a 3.5% decline from the September level. The October sales contraction is the worse in 2.5 years and clearly reflects the effect financial crisis is having on consumer spending. In essence consumers have slammed on the breaks with regards to spending. While we expect the holiday shopping season to attenuate this decline, we believe that in the beginning of 2009 consumer spending will slow dramatically as unemployment rises and benefits expire.


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Inventory, on the other hand, decreased slightly to $1.497 trillion, down 0.6% from the September result. However, these inventories should have decreased faster in order to alleviate inventory accumulations.


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The October inventory to sales ratio ticked up to 1.34 from 1.26 reported in the prior month.


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Final Thoughts
David Silver, Analyst


So the market is actually in the green as we enter the final three hours of trading on this Friday afternoon. After the gloomy start following the collapse of the auto bailout in the Senate, and Asian markets being sharply lower, the markets have turned around and that bullish midday charge has taken hold; however, the volume is again unconvincing. In a strange twist of fate, after being down double digit percentages earlier this morning, the two US. automakers, Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) are actually trading in the green as hopes of a White House or Treasury led bailout will save the struggling automakers. There is enough blame to go around for everyone involved in the mess; it shouldn't be placed on the shoulders of only the UAW or only the Republicans in the Senate. Everyone is not going to get everything they want if the automakers are going to last through the end of the year.
 

Fleursdumal

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altra giornata di ordinaria follia sui bonds, nuovi max in apertura con rendimenti 10y e 30y andati sotto 2,5 e 3% poi un bel OPS giù a rompicollo e ualà ritorno con cucù trionfale a chiudere sui max
in più aggiungiamo che l'Ecuador ha annunciato che darà default
 

Fleursdumal

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Fleurs al tg24 dicevano che a londra agli sportelli dei cambiavaluta la sterlina ormai è scambiata 1:1
ma è vero?

nein, però ci siamo quasi:D il gioco dei tg di oggi è stato quello di andare da cambiavalute più ladrones e vedere quanti centesimi di euro in più davano oltre la pari
 

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