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ECB At a Loss on Additional Steps as Rates Fall to Record Low

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank policy makers are at a loss for what additional steps to take as record low interest rates fail to stem the deepening recession.

 

Officials are hemmed in by European Union rules that forbid the ECB from buying bonds directly from governments and any decision to buy debt in the open market may spark a dispute over which country?s securities to purchase. Options are also limited by the lack of a single euro-region Treasury that would underwrite central bank losses incurred from any new measures.

?The problem is that they don?t know themselves what they?ll exactly have to do in the future,? said Juergen Michels, chief euro-area economist at Citigroup Inc. in London. ?They are probably very divided on the range of measures available to them.?

The danger is that the ECB, led by President Jean-Claude Trichet, slips into paralysis just as the 16-nation euro region spirals deeper into recession and other central banks get permission from their governments to create money or buy securities.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home

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corpo bonds wins with equity

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=bond

 

Corporate Bond Trading Highest Since ?07 as Credit Freeze Thaws

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Corporate bond trading in the U.S. is rising to the highest in two years, adding to evidence that credit markets are thawing even with stocks off to their worst start since the 1920s as the recession deepens.

 

An average $17.1 billion of corporate bonds traded daily this month, compared with $17.7 billion in January, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The business is up from last year?s low of $9.4 billion in August and reached the highest level since February 2007, Finra data show.

 

?We saw just dramatic increases in our corporate business,? said Dan Leland, head of taxable capital markets at Dallas-based Southwest Securities, a unit of SWS Group Inc. ?One of the last places you can get an attractive yield with relative safety is in the corporate arena. The equity markets just continue to deteriorate.?

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on my day-off today (having not to commute to work 90 min in public transportation is really a relief, cause thats one giant pain in the ass!) im playing around with some charts and found the following:

 

BAE Systems weekly

 

MASSIVE overhead res by tunnel, SMA 200, EMA 50 and 50 fibo. So thats a short short setup like in the textbook. Go short here at 400, target 100. Why not? Why should it not go back to 100? Any british stools can comment on this?

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Gold 993

The next $50 will be a gift to anyone/everyone buying a pullback - if one occurs.

 

Rarely is any result been so "baked in".

 

However, its OPEX Friday; 't might not happen untill next week. A timid push from here(today) to the old highs could be a good intraday short.

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I really thought that the Pigman 'opex victims of the month' play would come in the financials this month with a face melting spike after some DC bailout.

 

Instead, it looks like it's tech and anyone that got stopped out of gold or the miners yesterday.

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