ECB helps stop the rot in Europe at the moment, but the crisis is far from complete

The negative sense means Mediterranean markets have suffered their worst single day in the life of monetary union so far, with the euro hit a minimum of two months against the dollar at just over $ 1.30.

While bonds battered the Ireland Portugal and the Spain remained under pressure, other countries responsible for debt found themselves focused, with spreads in Italian pasta and Belgium bonds reached their highest level since the euro began.

Predatory continued Tuesday, while the euro falling under the mark of $1.30 for the first time since mid-September. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of the Portugal warned the sector banking deal "at risk" intolerable if Lisbon not consolidate public finances.

"The European credit market is in panic mode due to fears of insolvency," Boris Schlossberg, Director of research at GFT FX in New York, said the day. "Irish refloating effort was not enough and therefore the construction of pressure."

However, the situation is on Wednesday as investors bet that the European Central Bank (ECB) would announce plans to increase its purchases of government bonds to support more weak members of the euro area.

FTSE enjoyed the largest gathering of a day in three months, up to 2 1pc, while yields on eurozone sous - nations debt falling pressure, improved signage feeling on the conduct of their duties.

Markets seized the harmless-sounding observations Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, late Tuesday boards that officials of the Central Bank could accelerate massively purchasing obligations.

"We see that we decide in the future," he said. "This is the decision of the Board of Directors fully." But this program is underway. ?

Some hoped that the ECB would unveil plans for as much as EUR 1 billion (£ 850bn) purchases of debt on Thursday when it announced its monthly decision on rates.

They were disappointed when Mr Trichet made any concrete commitments to strengthen the bond purchases, instead of it he has simply promised to extend the installation of liquidity of emergency of the Bank for the Bank until the end of the month of March.

The euro has plunged at the outset, but retailers reported as soon as the ECB had begun its sovereign bonds more aggressive purchases since may, taken move as an attempt to show the markets that the authorities were willing to act.

"That said the ECB and that they are two very different things, Kathleen Brooks, an analyst at Forex.com, pointed out."

After negotiation volatile, the euro has reduced its losses and yields on Spanish, Portuguese and other obligations decreased sharply, demonstrating that action the ECB was able to reassure.

"The crisis in Europe is still strong", Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Director General of the international monetary fund has warned however, adding that the Greece and Ireland - two countries which have received bail - are "at the edge of the cliff" but other nations are not far behind.

Friday, at the edge of the euro and that the ECB has continued to buy bonds in the euro area and the austerity of Spanish Government approved measures, easing fears about its debt.

However, the most dramatic is imminent, Irish politicians to vote Tuesday on austerity budget the deeply unpopular government, on which she IMF-deal hinges.

The main opposition parties likely to win the power at the beginning of next year, said Friday that they want to renegotiate the agreement.

On a broader level, do not think that bond purchases the ECB will solve the problems of debt of the euro area, the message of RBS.

"They are very alive and it is just a temporary fix," Andrew Roberts, head of European interest rate strategy the Bank, warned in a note.


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