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Gilts sell off as Bank of England reiterates plan to end bond-buying schemeCentral bank says programme will end on October 14 following mixed signalsA sell-off in UK government bonds accelerated on Wednesday, sending long-term borrowing costs higher after the Bank of England reiterated its plans to halt its emergency gilt-buying scheme as scheduled on Friday.The central bank said on Wednesday morning that it “has made clear from the outset, its temporary and targeted purchases of gilts will end on 14 October”.The BoE added that it had “made absolutely clear in contact with the banks at senior levels” that it would end its scheme this week. The Financial Times reported earlier on Wednesday that BoE officials had briefed lenders in private that it was prepared to extend the programme beyond Friday’s deadline if market volatility flares up again.The UK 30-year yield rose 0.2 percentage points to 5 per cent, as selling gathered pace after the BoE’s announcement. Long-term yields are now closing in on levels that prompted the central bank to launch its initial intervention in the gilt market on September 28. Bond yields rise as their prices fall.The latest bout of selling comes after BoE governor Andrew Bailey warned pension funds late on Tuesday that they had “three days left” before support ended.“The lack of certainty is creating real challenges [for trustees],” said Andrew Coles, chief executive of Isio, a pension advisory firm. “On the one hand we have an official line which is the deadline is Friday, then stories leak through that if the markets react we might step in. This does not give certainty for trustees and schemes trying to prepare.”The bank’s chief economist Huw Pill followed up Bailey’s message on Wednesday by insisting that the BoE should remain focused on its principal goal of fighting inflation.“Were monetary policy to be reoriented towards serving financial stability ends . . . it would also be distracted from its central task of maintaining price stability and returning inflation to the 2 per cent target,” Pill said in a speech in Scotland. He signalled the BoE is likely to make a big increase to interest rates next month in response to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s package of unfunded tax cuts in September.The pound steadied on Wednesday, having dropped sharply after Bailey spoke in Washington on Tuesday evening. Sterling was 0.8 per cent higher against the dollar at $1.105 in London morning trading.The BoE has been rushing to contain the fallout from Kwarteng’s tax cut package, which sent sterling and the gilt market into a tailspin, triggering a liquidity crisis among pension funds.The central bank staged two further emergency interventions earlier this week, increasing the maximum size of its purchases and widening them to include inflation-linked bonds. With three days of buying left before Friday, the central bank has purchased £8.8bn of bonds, far below the potential size of the £65bn programme.“Everybody appears to be building the boat while they are sailing it,” said Richard McGuire, a fixed-income strategist at Rabobank.He added that the lack of clarity over the BoE’s intentions had compounded the information vacuum over how the government planned to get borrowing on a sustainable footing.McGuire said: “All this uncertainty and U-turns are bad from a market perspective. The BoE is desperately attempting to obscure the symptoms of the problem because it can’t address the root cause: a credibility problem after the government’s “mini” Budget.”Kwarteng will publish a medium-term plan on how to cut debt on October 31 but prime minister Liz Truss said in parliament on Wednesday that the government would not reduce expenditure — leaving open the question of how it plans to finance the £43bn in tax cuts.“What we will make sure is that over the medium term the debt is falling,” Truss said. “But we will do that not by cutting public spending but by making sure we spend public money well.”Speaking to the BBC, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the UK’s business secretary, suggested the blame for the market turmoil lay with the BoE rather than the government.“What has caused the effect in pension funds, because of some quite high risk but low probability investment strategies, is not necessarily the mini budget,” the minister said. “It could just as easily be the fact that the day before the Bank of England did not raise interest rates as much as the Federal Reserve did.”The Bank of England increased rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25 per cent on September 22, a day after the Fed put in place a third consecutive 0.75 per cent rise in the US.
Credit Default Swaps Surge As Investors Fear Global Economic Meltdown(...) Credit default swaps, which are insurance contracts that pay out in the event a bond borrower quits paying, are the most expensive they’ve been since the spring of 2020. Excluding Italy, which routinely accounts for 50% of the G7’s insurance cost, the total is nearing a six-year high.To get more specific, the current total cost for 5-year CDS contracts to insure the sovereign debt issued by members of the G7 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. — stands at nearly 400 basis points. That means a lender would have to pay $4 for every $100 they loaned out to protect themselves against the countries’ default.One factor is rising interest rates. The cost of insuring debt tends to increase with higher borrowing costs. The more interest a borrower has to pay, the more likely they are to struggle to make payments. However, the sudden rise for the G7 nations is attributable to more than just the cost of borrowing.That’s because lenders, as reflected by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s comments on Monday, are now expecting an increased risk of a U.S. recession over the next six to nine months. But there’s something else to consider: buying this insurance remains relatively cheap at the moment, but could lead to big payoffs if conditions continue to deteriorate.(...)
Fed officials expect higher rates to stay in place, meeting minutes showFederal Reserve officials have been surprised at the pace of inflation and indicated at their last meeting that they expect higher interest rates to remain in place until prices come down, according to minutes released Wednesday from the central bank’s September meeting.In discussions leading up to a 0.75 percentage point rate hike, policymakers noted that inflation is especially taking its toll on lower-income Americans.They reiterated rate hikes are likely to continue and higher rates prevail until the problem is showing signs of resolving.“Participants judged that the Committee needed to move to, and then maintain, a more restrictive policy stance in order to meet the Committee’s legislative mandate to promote maximum employment and price stability,” the meeting summary stated.Officials further noted that with inflation “showing little sign so far of abating … they had raised their assessment of the path of the federal funds rate that would likely be needed to achieve the Committee’s goals.”[/i][/color](...)
Fed fearful of doing ‘too little’ to stamp out soaring US inflationCentral bankers signal intention to press ahead with aggressive campaign to tighten monetary policy
Several participants commented that while households across the income distribution were burdened by elevated inflation, those at the lower end of the income distribution were particularly harmed, as a larger share of their income was spent on housing and other necessities.
La OTAN amenaza a Putin con aplicarle el 'Artículo 5' si sabotea objetivos de Occidentehttps://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5068120/0/directo-guerra-ucrania-rusia-duma-amenaza-nuclear-putin-anexion-zelenski/Los ministros de Defensa de la OTAN inician este miércoles una reunión de dos días en la que van a tratar la necesidad de reforzar las defensas aliadas y la protección de sus infraestructuras críticas, tras los recientes ataques al Nord Stream 1 y 2, al tiempo que continúan su apoyo a Ucrania."Revisaremos nuestros avances en el fortalecimiento de la disuasión y la defensa de la OTAN. Aumentaremos aún más la protección de nuestras infraestructuras críticas, a la luz del sabotaje de los oleoductos Nord Stream", indicó la víspera en una rueda de prensa previa a la reunión el secretario general aliado, Jens Stoltenberg (*). El noruego recordó que la Alianza Atlántica ya ha doblado su presencia en el mar Báltico y el mar del Norte con más de 30 barcos, que están apoyados por aviones de patrulla marítima y submarinos. Stoltenberg afirmó que siguen "de cerca todos los incidentes que puedan constituir un ataque híbrido o cibernético contra los aliados de la OTAN" y que están "preparados para tomar las medidas necesarias si es necesario", que dependerían de "la naturaleza del ataque" y que "pueden activar el artículo 5" para la defensa colectiva.
Que ya nadie cree en los mercaos...
U.S. Treasury's Yellen: Markets are functioning wellWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday said she has not seen signs of financial instability in U.S. financial markets even as they have experienced high volatility amid rising interest rates and concerns about strains on liquidity. (...)
News in Charts: Could China suffer a banking crisis soon?China has a housing problem. In some urban areas, house price to household income ratios are now as high as 18:1. In contrast, the house price-to-income ratio across the US is around 3:1. The answer to China’s housing problem should be simple (build more houses) — and yet it is not. Bizarrely, while there are plenty of construction projects in China, not enough of them are being completed. Indeed, Fathom estimates that the stock of housing currently under construction or paused (including those demolished) would ensure sufficient accommodation to house more than 200 million people. This is roughly equivalent to the population of Brazil. Why not finish them and declare them vacant and ready for sale? The answer is simple — if they released these additional homes on to the market, the boost to supply would crash house prices and place significant stress upon developers, mortgage holders and banks.Policymakers are aware of the issues in the housing market but, fearing the impact on the wider economy, have traditionally been reluctant to address them. That low key stance on the housing market appeared to change in the run-up to Xi Jinping’s expected third term as President. Regulations such as the ‘three red lines’, and Beijing’s decision to let the troubled property developer Evergrande fail, reflect this new, tougher stance. Even so, the plan is not to burst the housing bubble (which would undermine the government’s implicit guarantee, both for that sector and the wider economy), but simply to slow the rate at which it continues to expand. Managing this successfully was always going to be a difficult juggling act. Given the recent steep decline in new construction projects, with housing starts down 37% year-to-date, it is easy to draw comparisons between the current situation and the onset of previous housing market crashes in the US and Spain.Where China stands apart from those previous crises is in terms of house prices, which remain broadly flat. This has partly been achieved by reducing the number of residential construction projects that reach completion (they are down more than 20% in the year to date). Whether this will be sufficient to prevent prices falling more dramatically remains to be seen.The big question now is whether the issues in China’s housing sector will spill over into other sectors of the economy, especially banking. So far, recent debt defaults among the nation’s largest companies have remained highly concentrated in the construction sector — even more so than normal — with little suggestion that trouble may spread. But that does not mean that contagion can be ruled out. Indeed, consumer confidence and spending plans have collapsed at a remarkable rate, as elevated house prices mean households are highly exposed to adverse outcomes in the real estate sector.So, what are the odds that these troubles will spill over into the banking sector? Banking FVI scores are elevated globally, and the picture in China is no different — the odds of a crisis are at their highest since before 2010. Indeed, given the malign international backdrop, the attempted clampdown on the housing sector looks somewhat akin to poking a bear in the eye with a pointy stick. As a result, Fathom’s latest quarterly outlook[1] assumes a 15% likelihood of a banking crisis erupting in China.The economic costs of banking crises tend to be large, with recessions typically L-shaped (that is to say, there is a deep initial negative shock, followed by persistently lower growth rates for many years after the initial shock has passed). Consequently, the impact of a banking crisis in China is likely to be very large — Fathom estimates that the typical loss in output following a banking crisis reaches as much as 10% after three years. This is responsible for the very pronounced downside skew to Fathom’s fan chart for Chinese GDP.[2]
Economists predict home prices will fall, even if the US avoids a recession*Soaring inflation has led to a slowdown in the US economy, though some measures stay strong.*The Feds fight against inflationary pressure has greatly weakened housing activity. *It means US home prices are now on a downward trajectory even if the economy avoids a recession.There's a strange dynamic happening in the housing market. It could mean home prices will fall in the coming months, even if the US avoids a recession.That's because as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, mortgages are getting more expensive. This is causing buyers to pause purchase plans, and home prices are falling as a result.It's led Cris deRitis, the deputy chief economist at financial services firm Moody's Analytics to project, "Even without a recession and just a slowing of the economy, we already expect home prices to moderate."His colleague, Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's says price moderation could escalate as the fight against inflation rages on."The housing market is the most interest-rate-sensitive sector of the economy," Zandi said in a housing report. "It's on the front lines of the fallout from the Fed's efforts to bring down inflation."For now, however, even as some cities see price declines, housing costs are still high compared to what most Americans can afford because they are facing mortgage rates that have nearly doubled in the past year. Some economists believe overall costs are at peak and will decline as spring approaches, even as the US job market stays strong and President Joe Biden remains optimistic the country will avoid a recession."There's going to be a coast-to-coast downturn in the housing market. It's going to be brutal," Zandi said. "No part of the market is immune."While the "brutal" downturn might be bad news for real estate investors and people looking to sell, it could be welcome relief for would-be buyers who have been shut out of the market.Home prices and rents seesawWith more buyers sitting on the sidelines for now, data published from the S&P Dow Jones Indices shows that price growth turned negative in six major metropolitan areas from April through July, representing a stark shift from last year's home buying frenzy.During those months, California was home to three of the six cities that saw lower home prices in July compared to just a few months earlier in April. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego all experienced negative price growth during this period, as well as Seattle, Denver and Portland. Inflationary pressures have had the opposite impact on rental prices, which continue to climb — although growth is now moderating.According to rent.com, the US median rental price for a one-bedroom unit came in at $1,721 in August, falling 2.77% from the previous month but up 27.13% from just one year prior. The price of a two-bedroom unit also climbed 23.43% year-over-year to $2,054. The uptick in rents is helping to worsen economic volatility. Bloomberg reported that the consumer price index — an inflation measure that excludes food and energy — is projected to return to a four-decade high when numbers for September are released on Thursday, partially due to rising rents.Michael Feroli, the chief US economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co told Bloomberg that although core inflation has likely peaked, housing is helping to keep inflation elevated. "We're probably near a peak, but that being said, I don't think we're gonna have a speedy return to lower numbers in part because of the persistence of rental inflation," Feroli said. As rental inflation surges it may result in another large interest-rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month, which could drive up mortgage rates even higher and further escalate the housing downturn — with or without an economic recession. "The uncertainty and volatility in financial markets is heavily impacting mortgage rates," Sam Khater, the chief economist at Freddie Mac told Insider. In a separate statement, Khater said that "impacted by higher rates, house prices are softening," and home sales are falling.
Toronto picked as UBS’s bubbliest housing market as prices dropToronto’s housing market is looking like the world’s biggest real estate bubble, with Frankfurt not far behind in a UBS Group AG study of cities with the greatest potential for home-price declines in the coming months.Canada’s financial capital rose to the top position in the Swiss bank’s annual ranking of real estate markets most in danger of correcting. Cities from Amsterdam to Tokyo also saw their risk levels increase, according to a report released Wednesday. Home values in many cities are looking shakier than they have in years as central banks race to tame inflation by jacking up interest rates, suddenly making it far more expensive to get a mortgage. In some places, notably Toronto, that’s already resulted in price declines. But with odds rising that higher borrowing costs will cause a global economic slowdown and job losses, the downturn in real estate may just be getting started, UBS said. “We are witnessing the global owner-occupied housing boom finally under pressure,” the bank wrote in its report. “In a majority of the highly-valued cities, significant price corrections are to be expected in the coming quarters.”Record-low interest rates deployed by policy makers through the pandemic, along with the demand for larger living spaces that lockdowns provoked, drove housing markets around the world into a buying frenzy for much of the past two years. That’s now starting to reverse as rates rise. In Toronto, benchmark home prices jumped 71 per cent in the three years through February, data from the Canadian Real Estate Association show. Since then, they’ve fallen 8.6 per cent.The bank warned other cities may face the same pressure as homeowners start to get squeezed by higher mortgage costs on one side, and job losses on the other. Toronto, and Canada, may be leading the way.“Recent rate hikes by the Bank of Canada could be the last straw that broke the camel’s back,” according to the UBS report. “New buyers and owners during mortgage renegotiations not only need to pay higher interest rates but are also required to provide more income to qualify for a mortgage. Price correction is already in the making.”