B_B schreef op 8 juli 2016 08:03:
6 things Australian traders will be talking about this morning
JUL 8, 2016, 8:41 AM
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2. Here’s a little German bank which might soon become the next flashpoint as fears grow of another global banking crisis. We’ve talked about the banking crisis in Italy this past week, and the troubles in the UK property fund sector are now well known. Seven British investment firms suspended trading in their property funds , freezing £15 billion ($US19.4 billion) of assets since Monday.
That has many folks worried about contagion.
Overnight Deutsche Bank, which was the subject of Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi’s ire earlier this week, hit a fresh all time low. But it is another German bank which might actually be the one to watch. The FT reports that “a bond sold by Bremer Landesbank lost a quarter of its value on Thursday, after signs that state support for the struggling lender may be weaker than expected”.
Citing Handelsblatt the FT says Bremer, which is part owned by the government of Lower Saxony, is weighed down by non-performing shipping loans. But Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephen Weil said the bank can’t be recapitalised because (via google translate) “the classic way, namely that both partners provide the necessary capital does not seem to work”.
It doesn’t work because he’s not allowed to kick the tin. Jens Weidmann and Wolfgang Schäuble would be apoplectic.
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6. US non-farm payrolls tonight has never been more important. Everything changed for the Fed when the May non-farm payrolls were released a month ago. That print of 38,000 looked aberrant. But it was so low that the Fed, and many other commentators, had to scratch their heads and worry about the uncertainty in the US jobs market.
Tonight we’ll know the truth. Or at least the latest statistical version of it when the jobs report for June is released. The market is looking for an increase of 180,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.8%. But in many ways it is the revision to last month’s number – and I’m guessing hopes of a big writeback of job creation – which is going to be the big story
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