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Well, apparently it was just time. Bear market rallies are vicious, and tend to last 3-6 weeks. They are designed to suck all the bulls back in and force the bears to cover their shorts so that market insiders can get short in size for the next leg down.

 

As Granville said so well, the rally that fools the majority.

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One of the biggest factors was simply time. As of yesterday the 13 week cycle low was 6 days overdue. That was one of the reasons I was so aggressive about covering shorts over the past few days. By Monday AM we were down to just one, and I will stick with that one unless it violates trend resistance.

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Someone's been reading the Stool... ;)

 

Libor feels strain as year-end looms

 

By Michael Mackenzie in London

 

Published: November 28 2007 16:42 | Last updated: November 28 2007 16:42

 

The baton of tension in the money market will pass to one-month paper on Thursday as the countdown to year-end funding pressures enters its final four weeks.

 

Starting Thursday, one-month dollar and euro London Interbank Offered Rates, will cover the year-end turn that occurs on December 31, and as such, Libor is expected to surge.

 

Libor is an offered rate, a level at which banks lend to each other. In the present situation, traders report a distinct reluctance among banks to lend beyond a one-week period and say conditions are approaching the levels of stress seen back in September when the credit squeeze initially flared.

 

?People are waiting for the day of reckoning,? said George Goncalves, anal cyst at Morgan Stanley.

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8447b5b4-9dd0-11...00779fd2ac.html

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E-mail update i get from a CDO/Securitization research firm:

 

London-based asset manager Cheyne Capital is planning to transfer assets from its troubled $7 billion Cheyne Finance structured investment vehicle into a new vehicle as part of a deal to stave off realizing substantial losses in the short term.

 

This was one of the players Wells holds (or maybe held, now) paper from in their Master Trust for their MMF's.

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``Commercial real estate is a full-blown bubble that feels very much at a bursting point,'' said Christian Stracke, an anal cyst in London at CreditSights Inc., a fixed-income research firm. ``There's a fairly toxic mix of factors at work.''

 

The cost of derivatives protecting investors from defaults on the highest-rated bonds backed by properties more than doubled in the past month, according to Markit Group Ltd. Prices suggest traders anticipate defaults rising to the highest level since the Great Depression, according to anal cysts at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut.

 

The seven-year rally in offices and retail properties ended in September when prices fell an average of 1.2 percent, according to Moody's Investors Service. Banks worldwide are holding $54 billion of unsold commercial mortgages, according to data compiled by New York-based Citigroup Inc. that includes fixed and floating-rate debt.

Glumberg

 

It's not the unsold paper I'd be worried about, but the the stuff that's been spun into CDOs and then leveraged to the hilt. As this stuff goes bad, credit will only get crunchier. :ph34r:

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