“A Financial Canary in a Coal Mine”

John Authers widmet sich bei Bloomberg den Finanzwerten – als klare Indikatoren für die Richtung, in die es geht. Zurzeit also nach unten:

• “Financial stocks are often regarded as a canary in a coalmine. When they are in trouble, it can be a warning for the rest of us to leave. (…) The S&P 500 Financials Index closed (…) more than 20 per cent below its high from January – thus satisfying the popular definition of a bear market. (…) More worrying still, this is a global phenomenon. (…) banks in Japan and the euro zone have their own serious local problems. The way their shares have all tanked in the latter half of the year is both unusual and unsettling:” – bto: Es liegt einfach daran, dass Insolvenz zwar geleugnet und verschleppt werden kann, aber mit Nullzins alleine auch nicht bereinigt:

Quelle: Bloomberg

• “(…) this chart, on a log scale for clarity, shows that world banks as a whole have this year shed all the very small gains they had made since the weekend before Lehman. U.S. banks still have gains of 24 percent (not great for a decade); and the banks of the euro zone, convulsed by the sovereign debt crisis and still unable to right themselves, are now approaching their worst levels since the crisis. As far as shareholders are concerned, the global banking system is no healthier now than it was immediately before Lehman went down.” – bto: Ja, und es ist auch nicht gesünder, weil die Krisenursachen nie bereinigt, nur verschleppt wurden!

Quelle: Bloomberg

• The “(…) SIFIs (systemically important financial institutions) (…) are required to have a strong buffer of capital and to be run in a relatively conservative manner. As their failure is regarded as unconscionable by regulators, they should also be regarded as safe bets not to fail. But this, in a chart provided by Absolute Strategy Research of London, is how their shares have performed over the last two years.” – bto: Ja, warum haben sie es denn? Weil wir wissen, dass sie eben nicht solide dastehen. Damit verbunden ist die Gefahr für Aktionäre und Kreditgeber, morgen bei einer “Rekapitalisierung” zur Kasse gebeten zu werden.

Quelle: Bloomberg

• “Financials have been bumpy ever since the crisis, and previous sell-offs have provided great buying opportunities for U.S. banks – even if it would have been better to stay away from banks in the euro zone. (…) this is about a squeeze on liquidity, and in particular a shortage of dollars. Even if central banks don’t believe that there is a credit crisis, because spreads aren’t widening, he argues that financials are nevertheless in crisis. Until central banks start to add liquidity, or the dollar falls, investors should stay cautious (…).” – bto: Es zeigt aber nur, auf welch schwachem Fundament das ganze Bank- und Finanzwesen steht.
• “The following chart compares sell-offs in the SIFIs with the Krippner Rate. (…) this is an effective shadow rate, showing the interest rates implied from longer-maturity yields and the shape of the yield curve once the lower bound for interest rates has been reached. In other words, it takes into account the effect of unconventional measures such as forward guidance and quantitative-easing effects, now being replaced by quantitative tightening.” – bto: Weil die Liquidität knapper wird, geraten die Banken unter Druck.