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Sánchez anuncia que el Gobierno aprobará el aval público de hipotecas para jóvenes en el próximo Consejo de MinistrosEl presidente del Gobierno ha afirmado que esa línea de avales será de 2.000 millones de eurosMadrid El secretario general del PSOE y presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, ha anunciado este sábado que el martes, el Consejo de Ministros aprobará la línea de avales para aumentar la vivienda pública e incrementar el parque de vivienda en alquiler social o a precio asequible, así como para mejorar el ya existente.Esa línea de avales será de 2.000 millones de euros, ha señalado Sánchez en un acto electoral en el auditorio Mar de Vigo al que han asistido más de 1.500 personas para arropar al candidato socialista a la Xunta de Galicia en las elecciones del 18 de febrero, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro. Sánchez ha defendido esta medida para ayudar a “los jóvenes de nuestro país” y también a las “familias” que quieran comprar una vivienda.“Vamos a empezar a poner en marcha esta vivienda pública para que los jóvenes puedan emanciparse”, dijo Sánchez en el acto central de la campaña del PSdeG para las elecciones autonómicas del 18-F.En su intervención, alertó a los jóvenes de que el Gobierno va a impulsar una línea de financiación del denominado “banco público” que es el ICO para “cubrir esa entrada” a una vivienda que resulta “difícil a los jóvenes y familias, para poder comprar una vivienda”.https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2024/02/10/sanchez-anuncia-que-el-gobierno-aprobara-el-aval-publico-de-hipotecas-para-jovenes-en-el-proximo-consejo-de-ministros-cadena-ser/
Respecto al gran anuncio de los avales inmobiliarios, es más un truco de magia lleno de propaganda utilizado, además, en plena campaña electoral gallega (y cae en martes y trece). Mi hermana, hace cuatro años, con su pareja (los dos mileuristas e indefinidos), y con casi todo el ahorro inicial (20%), no les fue concedida la hipoteca porque "no tenían ingresos estables" y por lo tanto, no eran solventes a largo plazo. Más allá de los avales, los que no pueden ahorrar el 20 por ciento no van a poder hipotecarse si las condiciones no cambian, por mucho que el gobierno les avale. Veo esta medida más bien para familias de nueva creación, solventes por su nivel de ingresos, que se quieren hipotecar antes de tener que ahorrar para la entrada. Veo más bien esta medida como un ataque a la primera linea de flotación del rentismo, que no es otro que el alquiler de los perfiles solventes, que pagan "gustosamente" los precios que marca el casero después de tantear Idealista. Por ejemplo, una pareja de funcionarios, recién casados y que se quieren hipotecar (porque alquilar es tirar el dinero), tienen que ahorrar ese 20 por ciento (y el IVA, y el dinero de los muebles, y ..., y...) durante como mínimo dos o tres años, aplicando estrictamente el manual del buen lonchafinista, y mientras tanto, honran lo que su casero les pide con suma amabilidad. Con esta medida, se podrán hipotecar desde el primer día y no tendrán que recurrir a los precios de alquiler de catálogo, porque para Basilea III ellos sí son solventes. La puerta de entrada a una hipoteca no está restringida por ese 20 por ciento, hay muchos más factores que van a seguir cerrando la puerta a la gran mayoría.
US banking profits plunged 45% in final months of 2023Industry earnings weighed down by one-off charges to replenish federal deposit insurance after regional banking crisisProfits in the US banking sector tumbled almost 45 per cent year on year in the final quarter of 2023, even as the squeeze on consumers eased and confidence grew that the US economy would avoid a near-term recession.The fall, to $38bn, was the biggest year-on-year drop in quarterly profits since the second quarter of 2020, according to BankRegData, a data provider that collates quarterly reports made by lenders to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The data is not comprehensive, but covers profits from subsidiaries with FDIC-insured deposits.Profits were dragged down by one-off charges linked to last year’s regional banking crisis. The country’s largest banks expensed $16bn to cover the government-imposed “special assessment”, which replenished a deposit insurance fund that was heavily depleted by the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature and First Republic.Quarterly earnings were also hit by a $5bn increase in provisions for bad loans, a $4bn loss on banks’ securities portfolios, and higher costs as lenders cut staff and restructured their operations, the data shows.The number of full-time workers at US bank branches fell by more than 45,000 in 2023. Wells Fargo alone said it spent more than $1bn on unexpected job cuts in the fourth quarter.“Their income is getting squeezed,” said Christopher Whalen, a veteran industry analyst, who is the head of Whalen Global Advisors. “Depositors are going to continue to want to get paid, but what banks can make on loans and investments is slowing down.”The drop in profits last quarter shows how the swift rise in interest rates — which started two years ago and led to last year’s bank failures — continues to weigh on lenders, even as America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, reported record annual profits last year.Truist, the country’s seventh-largest lender, fell more sharply than any other US bank. Formed in 2019 by a tie-up between BB&T and SunTrust, Truist lost nearly $5bn in the quarter, down from a profit of $1.6bn in the same quarter the year before.The bank realised an additional $6bn in losses tied to the merger, which has been less profitable than originally expected. The bank said that was partly because the stock market value of banks has dropped since it struck the deal.Larger banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo also saw their profits fall in the final quarter of 2023.They fared better than their smaller peers, however, boosted in part by their investment banking and trading businesses. In the final three months of 2023, JPMorgan earned 22 per cent of the industry’s profits, its highest share in more than a decade.US banks collectively increased earnings by 2 per cent to $256bn in 2023, a year that was marked by both the high-profile bank failures and significant government assistance for the industry.
Shadow Bank Loans From US Lenders Surpass $1 Trillion in Fed DataBanks’ lending to non-bank financial firms has steadily risenJanet Yellen said this week that officials are monitoring riskThe amount that US banks have loaned to so-called shadow banks surpassed the $1 trillion mark, according to Federal Reserve data, even as regulators warn of potential risks to the financial system.The Fed reported Friday that lenders crossed the threshold in loans outstanding to non-deposit-taking financial companies such as fintechs and private credit investors at the end of January. The figure was about $894 billion a year earlier, the data show.(...)
US lenders’ debt to shadow banks passes $1tnRegulators worry growing financial ties between traditional and non-bank groups could pose systemic risksThe amount US financial institutions have loaned to shadow banks such as fintechs and private credit groups has passed $1tn, as regulators warn that growing ties between traditional and alternative lenders could present systemic risks.The US Federal Reserve reported on Friday that US banks crossed the 13-figure threshold in loans outstanding to non-deposit-taking financial companies at the end of January. These hedge funds, private equity firms, direct lenders and others use the money to leverage investments and increasingly lend it out to a range of risky borrowers that regulators have discouraged banks from lending to directly.That amount is up 12 per cent in the past year, making it one of banking’s fastest-growing businesses when overall loans growth has been sluggish, up just 2 per cent.The rapid rise in loans to shadow banks concerns regulators because there is very little information or oversight regarding the risks being taken by those groups. Last month, EU regulators said they would dig deeper into the ties between traditional lenders and shadow banks.Acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu, one of the top US bank regulators, recently told the Financial Times that he thought the lightly regulated lenders were pushing banks into lower-quality and higher-risk loans.“We need to solve for the race to the bottom,” said Hsu. “And I think part of the way to solve it is to put due attention on those non-banks.”Recently, a number of banks have sought closer ties to non-bank lenders. Last month, Citigroup said it was partnering with an outside alternative investment manager, LuminArx, to provide “innovative leverage solutions” to its $2bn loan fund. Citi was also a leader on a $310mn loan to Sunbit, a buy-now, pay-later company that specialises in auto repair shops and dentist offices.Last year, Wells Fargo signed a deal to lend billions to a new credit fund run by Centerbridge, a $40bn private equity firm that led the buyouts of restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s and business technology provider Computer Sciences Inc.In 2010, when banks were first required to break out their lending to non-banks, the loans totalled just over $50bn for the entire banking sector. JPMorgan alone now has twice that in loans to non-banks.For all banks, shadow bank financing now makes up more than 6 per cent of all loans, putting it just above auto loans at 5 per cent, and just below credit cards, which crossed $1tn for the first time just last year, at 7 per cent.Late last year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed requiring banks to disclose more data on what types of shadow banks they are lending to.Rather than reporting one category of non-deposit-taking financial groups, banks could soon have to say how much in total they have lent to private equity firms, credit funds and other consumer lenders.Comments on the proposal are due at the end of this month. If enacted, banks could have to start reporting the more detailed information starting next quarter.“We need more granularity,” said Gerard Cassidy, a bank analyst at RBC Capital Markets.“There has been a lot of leveraged lending that has gone on in financial markets and this area could be one area where there is hidden exposure that investors might need to watch.”
The Fed Claims the Banking System is "Sound and Resilient." The Banks' Balance Sheets Say OtherwiseThe wordsmiths at the Federal Reserve wisely omitted the line about a “sound and resilient” banking system in its statement on January 31. That same day shares of New York Community Bank plunged when the bank announced a loss of thirty-six cents per share when analysts expected earnings of twenty-seven cents a share for the fourth quarter.Internal or external auditors occasionally comb through individual loans in a bank’s portfolio and make judgments as to whether those loans are worth what the bank says they are worth due to lower appraised values and other issues either particular to an individual property or the market as a whole. Bankers then, begrudgingly, set aside earnings for potential loan losses.In the case of the real estate loans at New York Community Bank, loan examiners must have told senior management to increase the bank’s loan loss provision by 790 percent to $552 million. This balance sheet expense drove the fourth-quarter loss and caused the bank to cut its dividend.“The bank reported a near $2 billion increase in criticized multifamily loans—debt with a probability of default,” wrote Suzannah Cavanagh for the Real Deal. “Of its $37 billion multifamily loan book, which comprises 44 percent of its total portfolio, 8 percent was marked criticized in the quarter.” The bank also reported a $42 million net charge-off—debt unlikely to be paid back—for an office loan on which the borrower stopped paying interest.The bank’s chief financial officer John Pinto pooh-poohed the loan carnage, saying, “We had higher levels of substandard [loans] throughout the Financial Crisis, throughout the pandemic. The rise in substandard loans does not lead directly to specific losses.” Hope Springs EternalLike the 2008 financial crisis, what happens in the US isn’t staying in the US. Tokyo-based Aozora Bank said losses in its US office’s loan portfolio will likely lead to a net loss for the year ending in March, the Wall Street Journal reports. Also, the private Swiss bank Julius Baer took a roughly $700 million provision on loans made to Austrian property landlord Signa Group. The bank said shutting down the unit was what made the loans, and the chief executive has resigned.Jay Powell made no mention of the New York Community Bank’s news in his prepared remarks, and reporters didn’t ask him about the bank’s troubles during the Q and A. There were no questions concerning the Bank Term Funding Program that will be sunsetted March 11 despite having risen to record highs. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Ackerman, the popularity of the program was not because of new stresses on banks. But reportedly, “some banks had recently figured out a way to game the program by pocketing the difference between what they pay to borrow the funds and what they can earn from parking the funds at the central bank as overnight deposits.” On January 31, banks had borrowed more than $165 billion from the facility.It’s doubtful there are no new stresses on banks. New York Community Bank is not an anomaly.To that point, real estate investor Barry Sternlicht told a conference crowd,CitarWe have a problem in real estate. In every sector of real estate, not just office, because of the 500 basis point increase in rates that was vertical. The office market has an existential crisis right now . . . it’s a $3 trillion dollar asset class that’s probably worth $1.8 trillion [now]. There’s $1.2 trillion of losses spread somewhere, and nobody knows exactly where it all is.Sternlicht mentioned a project in New York that was purchased for $200 million that he thought was now worth just $30 million, encumbered by a $100 million loan.Harold Bordwin, a principal at Keen-Summit Capital Partners LLC in New York, which specializes in renegotiating distressed properties, told Bloomberg, “Banks’ balance sheets aren’t accounting for the fact that there’s lots of real estate on there that’s not going to pay off at maturity.”Bordwin went on to say, “Banks—community banks, regional banks—have been really slow to mark things to market because they didn’t have to, they were holding them to maturity. They are playing games with what is the real value of these assets” (emphasis added).“The percentage of loans that banks have so far been reported as delinquent are a drop in the bucket compared to the defaults that will occur throughout 2024 and 2025,” David Aviram, principal at Maverick Real Estate Partners told Bloomberg. “Banks remain exposed to these significant risks, and the potential decline in interest rates in the next year won’t solve bank problems.”The plan for the Bank Term Funding Program was hatched in haste over a weekend in March of last year in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures (Signature’s assets were purchased by New York Community Bank). To hide their embarrassment over banks using the facility for risk-free interest rate arbitrage, they say they are shutting the program down because there is no stress in the banking system.There is stress aplenty in the banking world. As Murray Rothbard wrote inThe Mystery of Banking, “Fractional reserve bank credit expansion is always shaky, for the more extensive its inflationary creation of new money, the more likely it will be to suffer contraction and subsequent deflation.”While bankers and regulators have their heads in the sand, the contraction has already begun.
We have a problem in real estate. In every sector of real estate, not just office, because of the 500 basis point increase in rates that was vertical. The office market has an existential crisis right now . . . it’s a $3 trillion dollar asset class that’s probably worth $1.8 trillion [now]. There’s $1.2 trillion of losses spread somewhere, and nobody knows exactly where it all is.
The ‘Greatest Real Estate Crisis’ Since 2008 Starts to Hit BanksNYCB was downgraded to junk by Moody’s, PBB and Aareal saw bonds plummet on their US CRE exposureSecond ChapterThe collapse of Credit Suisse in March 2023 seemingly marked the nadir of a flash banking crisis that began only a few weeks earlier with the downfall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the US. But what looked like a momentary blip that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic had managed to contain is now increasingly looking like the opening chapter of a much longer saga.This time the focus is on commercial real estate debt. The loan books of lenders from New York to Munich are showing rising levels of stress because of a slump in property values, triggered by a mix of interest rates hikes over the last two years and the shift to remote working. (...)Notes From the BrinkAmid the turmoil in the property market, real estate investment trust Office Properties Income Trust managed to sell a $300 million bond to repay debt coming due later this year, Sri Taylor and Gowri Gurumurthy report.The move was a bold one — the firm saw its credit rating cut deeper into junk just a day before tapping the market — and it paid out to extinguish upcoming debt. It sold the new 9% bond at a discount to yield nearly 10.7%. It’s using proceeds from the sale to help repay notes with a 4.25% coupon.REITs that are heavily exposed to commercial real estate are feeling the pain of the latest property jitters. The KKR Real Estate Finance Trust earlier this week lowered its dividend by nearly half after realizing a $59 million loss on an office loan. Its shares sunk, falling by the most since March 2020 on Wednesday, and deepening losses through Friday. Amid rising interest rates, properties will have to be refinanced at higher prices when their debt comes due. More than $1 trillion in commercial mortgage loans are maturing over the next two years, at a time when valuations for assets like office buildings have dropped.The Latest on… Cevdet CanerIn a London court this week, more junior-ranking creditors opposed a planned debt restructuring of a major Berlin development of Aggregate Holdings, the real estate investment company run by Cevdet Caner. These creditors, which are considered out-of-the-money, would be all but wiped out.A footnote in the restructuring plan made them balk: the proposal includes a consultancy agreement with a firm some creditors contend is owned solely by Caner. Company filings show the firm, NIU Real Estate GmbH, is indirectly owned by an entity of which Caner was the sole shareholder when it was registered in Luxembourg in 2022.The consultancy agreement includes a €300,000 monthly fee for its services, and also instruments that entitle the firm to a cut of potential profits after debt is repaid, according to court documents.“There can be no possible justification for this payment,” lawyers for Bank J Safra Sarasin, which is representing some investors opposing the restructuring plan, said in a filing. Safra has created its own alternative arrangement, which would be undertaken in Luxembourg.The majority of senior creditors, including London-based fund Fidera, support the plan. A London judge said he would aim to provide a judgment on the case in around three weeks.High Alert*Genesis Global has settled a lawsuit brought by New York’s top law enforcement official alleging the bankrupt crypto lender defrauded customers of its now-terminated Gemini Earn program, which was run jointly with Gemini Trust.*Retail investors are pulling more than €1 billion a month from real estate funds in Europe. The redemptions meant total net assets held by European open-ended and exchange-traded property funds fell more than 10% to €180.7 billion from December 2022 through the end of last year, data compiled by Morningstar show.*KKR and Macquarie are among suitors that have been shortlisted in the bidding for French fiber company XpFibre, part of Altice France. The company’s bonds jumped on Friday.*Kenya’s eurobonds maturing in June surged after the East African nation offered to buy back its $2 billion of debt and announced plans to sell new securities.*The number of distressed charter schools rose to a record in the beginning of 2024 as the sector struggles with the end of pandemic assistance and rising costs.(...)
Me sorprende la insolencia con la que los falsoliberales liberalistas españoles se regodean con las estrecheces que está atravesando Alemania y, en general, la eurozona. Les restregaría por su cara los euros con los que les pagan sus salarios.]
New Australian Law Will Give Workers 'Right to Disconnect'Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday February 11, 2024 @07:34AM from the do-not-call dept.An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York TimesCitarWhen it's after hours, and the boss is on the line, Australian workers — already among the world's best-rested and most personally fulfilled employees — can soon press "decline" in favor of the seductive call of the beach. In yet another buttress against the scourge of overwork, Australia's Senate on Thursday passed a bill giving workers the right to ignore calls and messages outside of working hours without fear of repercussion. It will now return to the House of Representatives for final approval.The bill, expected to pass in the House with ease, will let Australian workers refuse "unreasonable" professional communication outside of the workday. Workplaces that punish employees for not responding to such demands could be fined. "Someone who is not being paid 24 hours a day shouldn't be penalized if they're not online and available 24 hours a day," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a news conference Wednesday...Australia follows in the footsteps of European nations such as France, which in 2017 introduced the right of workers to disconnect from employers while off duty, a move later emulated by Germany, Italy and Belgium. The European Parliament has also called for a law across the European Union that would alleviate the pressure on workers to answer communications off the clock...Australians already enjoy a host of standardized benefits, including 20 days of paid annual leave, mandatory paid sick leave, "long service" leave of six weeks for those who have remained at an employer for at least seven years, 18 weeks of paid maternity leave and a nationwide minimum wage of about $15 an hour.
When it's after hours, and the boss is on the line, Australian workers — already among the world's best-rested and most personally fulfilled employees — can soon press "decline" in favor of the seductive call of the beach. In yet another buttress against the scourge of overwork, Australia's Senate on Thursday passed a bill giving workers the right to ignore calls and messages outside of working hours without fear of repercussion. It will now return to the House of Representatives for final approval.The bill, expected to pass in the House with ease, will let Australian workers refuse "unreasonable" professional communication outside of the workday. Workplaces that punish employees for not responding to such demands could be fined. "Someone who is not being paid 24 hours a day shouldn't be penalized if they're not online and available 24 hours a day," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a news conference Wednesday...Australia follows in the footsteps of European nations such as France, which in 2017 introduced the right of workers to disconnect from employers while off duty, a move later emulated by Germany, Italy and Belgium. The European Parliament has also called for a law across the European Union that would alleviate the pressure on workers to answer communications off the clock...Australians already enjoy a host of standardized benefits, including 20 days of paid annual leave, mandatory paid sick leave, "long service" leave of six weeks for those who have remained at an employer for at least seven years, 18 weeks of paid maternity leave and a nationwide minimum wage of about $15 an hour.
CitarNew Australian Law Will Give Workers 'Right to Disconnect'Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday February 11, 2024 @07:34AM from the do-not-call dept.An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York TimesCitarWhen it's after hours, and the boss is on the line, Australian workers — already among the world's best-rested and most personally fulfilled employees — can soon press "decline" in favor of the seductive call of the beach. In yet another buttress against the scourge of overwork, Australia's Senate on Thursday passed a bill giving workers the right to ignore calls and messages outside of working hours without fear of repercussion. It will now return to the House of Representatives for final approval.The bill, expected to pass in the House with ease, will let Australian workers refuse "unreasonable" professional communication outside of the workday. Workplaces that punish employees for not responding to such demands could be fined. "Someone who is not being paid 24 hours a day shouldn't be penalized if they're not online and available 24 hours a day," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a news conference Wednesday...Australia follows in the footsteps of European nations such as France, which in 2017 introduced the right of workers to disconnect from employers while off duty, a move later emulated by Germany, Italy and Belgium. The European Parliament has also called for a law across the European Union that would alleviate the pressure on workers to answer communications off the clock...Australians already enjoy a host of standardized benefits, including 20 days of paid annual leave, mandatory paid sick leave, "long service" leave of six weeks for those who have remained at an employer for at least seven years, 18 weeks of paid maternity leave and a nationwide minimum wage of about $15 an hour.Saludos.