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Bloomberg calculations show Greece with a 58% participation rate for its PSI so far. Key...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 11:09 AM ETBloomberg calculations show Greece with a 58% participation rate for its PSI so far. Key levels to breach: 66% in order for any sort of debt swap (and subsequent bailout) to go through, 75% is the government's goal, 95% the level at which CACs may not have to be activated.
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Either they do not manage the 75% hurdle ( their offer specifically states, that they will not make the swap if less than 75% participate), then they don't get the bailout money -> bad news, though they are apparently liquid for some months yet,
...or they force a CAC and trigger a CDS -> bad news, should make plenty of banks nervous. CDS market lacks transparency. -> bad news
...or they somehow claim the haircut voluntary with a CAC, without CDS trigger, thereby killing the CDS as a viable financial instrument. Why hold default insurance, if their trigger is prevented by very dubious means. -> bad news.
That small sell-off hardly constitutes pricing in the possible outcomes. At least not for Europe anyway.
Why would "killing the CDS as a viable financial instrument" be a bad thing given the present form of that instrument? By encouraging massive amounts of speculation through allowing individuals and institutions to take out 'insurance' on the value of assets they don't in fact own, this mechanism encourages the worst aspects of casino capitalism to displace proper asset and risk allocation in the markets and makes these markets inherently unstable.
Does he even realize, the press is gonna use him as a model for Hedge Fund greed? I'm really sick of hearing about Greece.
Send them a message, you borrow, you pay.
You don't pay................people come knocking on doors.
This is the kick in the ass that the EU needs to wake up and force legislation upon it's member states, OR...... fold and throw the EU Model in the bin.
* EU Model should FORCE the members to give up "any and all sovereignty", and adopt ONLY EU LAW. This will eliminate any lower state courts from "intrusive and unqualified interpretation of higher EU Law", (as we see weekly in Germany.)
It would work MUCH better, especially when you consider the likes of rogue States, like Germany, who insist the rules are for EVERYONE ELSE, EXCEPT THEM.
It doesn't look good here right now, the mood is surreal.
It was reported in today's WSJ, that "European authorities may simply decide to pay them (holdouts) to be rid of the nuisance".
Please tell me there is a leaked document with this policy mentioned!