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2011-08-15
source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/08/ecb-goes-shopping

The ECB goes shopping
The reluctant rescuer

Aug 8th 2011, 16:16 by P.W. | LONDON


ONCE again, as the euro area appeared to teeter at the edge of an abyss, a sharp tug from the central bank has restored a margin of safety, albeit a slim one. In May 2010, as markets were panicking about Greece, it was the decision by the European Central Bank (ECB) based in Frankfurt to start buying Greek government bonds in the markets that calmed nerves as much as the euro-area governments’ decision to create a new bail-out fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). This week, the ECB has pulled off the same trick by deciding to purchase Italian and Spanish government bonds at an emergency weekend conference-call meeting of its 23-strong governing council.

The move was prompted by market pressures building on the much bigger economies of Italy and Spain, as yields on their debt threatened to reach unsustainably high levels. The jitters were all the more remarkable given that an emergency summit of European leaders on July 21st to agree upon a second rescue for Greece had also sought to reduce the risk of sovereign-debt worries spreading to other vulnerable countries by expanding the role of the EFSF, allowing it to intervene in secondary markets as well as to extend lines of credit to such economies.

The trouble is that the bail-out fund will not be able to do this until its new remit is ratified by the 17 euro-area governments this autumn. Even an emergency return by leaders from their (wrecked) summer holidays would not help unless parliaments were recalled, too; and that might stoke even greater alarm. In any case, the package due to be ratified failed to boost the size of the fund beyond the already agreed target of an effective lending capacity of (此处为欧元符号)440 billion ($620 billion). That is enough to finance the rescues of Ireland and Portugal and the second bail-out of Greece, but would be insufficient to deal with Italy, let alone Italy and Spain.
The ECB, by contrast, can act now. And, potentially, it has unlimited firepower since it can pay for any purchases by creating money. Certainly, the mere threat to intervene in Italian and Spanish markets was sufficient to cause a sharp fall in yields as the markets opened on Monday August 8th.

But the ECB is a reluctant rescuer. Indeed until this month it had not made any bond purchases since March, leaving their total book value around (此处为欧元符号)75 billion. It made some last week, but disappointed markets because they were confined to Irish and Portuguese bonds; and even these were opposed by some members of the governing council, notably Jens Weidmann, the president of the German Bundesbank. The ECB’s decision to purchase Italian and Spanish government bonds was reactive rather than pre-emptive and followed immense pressure from political leaders

The ECB has its reasons for treading cautiously. Its foray into Greek bond purchases has left it nursing big losses if they were valued at market prices. But even more than potential damage to its balance sheet, the central bank’s really big worry is about its credibility, since the purchases drag it into what is in effect fiscal rather than monetary territory.

That reluctance suggests that the bond-buying rescue will do no more than contain the latest outbreak of nerves. If Europe is to get on top of its sovereign-debt crisis, it must build a much more secure fiscal underpinning to its shaky monetary union. And that will involve winning support from voters in the creditor countries, notably Germany, who fear precisely that outcome. That is the real job that awaits European leaders when they return from their summer vacations.


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2011-8-15 22:59:14

跟帖继续

我是助理桉树熊,借用楼主的帖子解释下。
早上楼主发帖出现错误,经检查,是欧元符号不能正常显示造成文章发帖中断, 本人会向上级反映的~希望这样修改之后不影响阅读~
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2011-8-16 07:59:55
好吧 我复制下来 慢慢看

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The summary of this article: the ECB is a reluctant rescuer. Indeed until this month it had not made any bond purchases since March, leaving their total book value around

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2011-8-16 09:11:02
The ECB is buying bonds to stop the fall in stock

The ECB is buying bonds to stop the fall in stock The rumor spread like wildfire for European exchanges and WIN has given some respite to the benchmarks , reacting upward in response to evidence that the European Central Bank (ECB) is buying peripheral bonds.

This is a desperate attempt to control speculative attacks who are suffering today in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain before the auction takes place the following previews.

“There are clear signs in the market that investors are buying a powerful Italian and Greek bonds, I would say also Spanish, and can only be the ECB ,” said a trader Frankufrt to that the entity expects to confirm the operation.

In fact, the risk premium relaxed Spanish mid-session and after a peak of 375 basis points to 11.40 am stood at 343 due to the slight decline in the profitability of Spanish bond to ten years. Specifically, the Spanish debt with a maturity of ten years offers investors a yield of 6.151%.

Trichet interventions had not made like this in the markets during the past week, despite renewed tensions over the spread of the debt crisis in Italy. Specifically, the ECB had not acquired sovereign bond markets since late March , linking fifteen consecutive weeks without buying government debt.

This leaves at 74,000 million euros the amount until the date of purchase of securities program of the institution, established in May 2010 in response to the debt crisis in the euro zone.

Punishment debt in both countries suffered yesterday, however, has forced the ECB curb . The sell-off led to the returns to levels of another time when the euro was not even born.

the Spanish case, the performance of 10-year bonds jumped from 5.67% to 6.03%, where analysts say the country will undergo in touch 7% . The Italian debt were not much better things and financing rose from 5.27 to 5.68%, its highest level since 2000. In the last six days, the increase is 82 basis points.

The ECB, however, not have the support of the Eurogroup in this simple maintenance , who disapproves especially Germany. The eurozone countries will no longer exclude a partial debt default in Greece as part of the second rescue plan ready for Athens, as has been said this morning the Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager, so the trend markets is to get rid of the bonds as soon as peripherals, which will eventually weigh on accounts of the ECB and private investors .

All indications are that the agony will be long, since the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said this morning in a radio interview that “agreement to the following rescue of Greece may be postponed until September,” .

http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy/spain/the-ecb-is-buying-bonds-to-stop-the-fall-in-stock-44146.html

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2011-8-16 12:32:16
rescue needs more confidence and credit
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2011-8-16 14:15:25
In fact, the ECB was dragooned into buying bonds. Just as mentioned above, this decision was "reactive rahter than pre-emptive". The key point lies in that more effecitve and stronger measures should be taken to deal with current straits.
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