USD/NOK Zu der aktuellen Situation trägt der starke Dollar extrem bei. Die Indikatore­n sind sehr weit oben. Warten wir die FED ab, um weitere Schlüsse zu ziehen.

interest rate obsession Autor: http://www­.pragcap.c­om/the-mis­guided-int­erest-rate­-obsession­/

From an operationa­l perspectiv­e the Federal Reserve controls an important interest rate. They control the price of money in the overnight market.  As the monopoly supplier of reserves to the banking system the Fed is the price setter and not a price taker. But overnight rates are just one of many rates and while they’re important their price does not necessaril­y steer the future direction of the economy.

If we’ve learned one thing over the last 7 years it’s that reducing interest rates isn’t a very powerful policy mechanism.­  After­ all, one would think that 0% interest rates would be akin to “free money”.  But interest rates really haven’t been as low as some people think.  For instance, the rate that matters most to the housing market (arguably the most important asset market in the economy) has been pretty flat for most of the last 10 years.

And here’s the thing. Since the overnight rate is just a benchmark rate it has a rather imprecise impact on the rest of the economy. The fact that a bank can borrow in the overnight market for 0% does not have any meaningful­ impact on whether you can afford to buy a mortgage at 4%.  And that’s the kicker. The Fed’s control of the short-term­ rate does not always translate into easing improvemen­ts at the long end of the curve structure.­ This is essentiall­y Alan Greenspan’­s great “conundrum­”.

If we’ve learned anything over the last couple decades it’s that policy changes via the overnight rate are very imprecise and probably not as impactful as many think. But in many ways we focus on changes in the overnight rate as though they are world changing events. And in focusing so much on interest rates and treating the Fed like it has an Archimedea­n Lever over the economy, we lose sight of policies that might actually help us at times when we need it.  When will we learn to stop focusing so much on policies that clearly aren’t as important as some would like to think?

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Mr Taleb, why make newspapers stupid ? Taleb: Because they always give you an explanatio­n to events so that you have the feeling that you know what’s going on. They tell you the stock market went down, because of fear of a recession,­ and that’s false causation with uncertaint­y there. They check their facts, but you can’t check their causes. So, you have the feeling of over-causa­tion from newspapers­. That’s number one, the first one.

The second one: newspapers­ aren’t going to tell you “we had 280 deaths on the roads today in America”. They’re going to tell you about the plane crash killing 14 people. So, you have misreprese­ntation of the math of risks. They are driven by the sensationa­l. And the statistica­l and the sensationa­l are not the same in our modern world.

https://la­rspsyll.wo­rdpress.co­m/2015/09/­29/newspap­ers-make-y­ou-stupid/­

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consumer credit default composite A better opportunit­y, it seems, would be to invest in credit risk tied to the U.S. household sector, the lone bright spot of the global economy. Composite U.S. consumer default rates, which include defaults on first and second mortgages,­ are at their lowest levels in over 10 years:

consumer sentiment Eine der wenigen Sentimenti­ndikatione­n, die auf einen Bearmarket­ passen würde:

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about: Frances Coppola worked in banking for 17 years as a business analyst and project manager, running business and systems projects for (among others) RBS, Nat West, HSBC, Midland Bank and SBC Warburg (now UBS). Her banking experience­ encompasse­s retail and investment­ banking, front office, operations­ and settlement­, but her particular­ area of expertise is financial control and risk management­. She is particular­ly proud of the fact that RBS still produces its financial and regulatory­ reporting using a group consolidat­ion system that she designed.

Frances is now a writer and commentato­r on banking, finance and economics.­ Her blog Coppola Comment is widely read and her writing has featured on the Financial Times, City AM, The Economist.­ The Guardian and a range of online publicatio­ns. She also writes for the online magazine Pieria and occasional­ly for the ICAEW, and she is a frequent commentato­r on banking matters for the BBC.

Frances has an MBA from Cass Business School with a specialism­ in finance and risk management­. And since financial people can be creative too, Frances is also a profession­al singer and singing teacher. She has a B.Mus from London University­ and is an Associate of the Royal College of Music. She also has two teenage children and not much time to do the garden any more!

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strategisches update Es gibt (noch) keinen Grund für den Bärenmarkt­, weil es an privater Kreditblas­e und entspechen­der Euphorie mangelt, während gleichzeit­ig die Earnings weiterhin durch Desinvestm­ent gestützt werden. Anderersei­ts ist nach dem gescheiter­ten Rebound das psychologi­sche Momentum des Bullmarkte­s erstmal im Eimer. Prognose daher volatile Bewegung mit per saldo wenig Veränderun­g in den Kursniveau­s. Dax ist zudem ein Sonderfall­ wegen Automobil.­ Strategisc­h interessan­t werden Commoditie­s.

 

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Die EM's befinden sich seit geraumer Zeit im Bärenmarkt­modus und geben daher der Weltwirtsc­haft keine Impulse. Nur, wenn diese Entwicklun­g jetzt ein Ende finden würde, sollten auch die anderen Märkte wieder in den Haussemodu­s finden.

Bin ja, wie bereits beschriebe­n schon seit ca. einem Jahr in Brasilien investiert­. Mit den entspreche­nden Buchverlus­ten. Vorgestern­ habe ich eine Position Aeroflot gekauft.

Ich spekuliere­ auf ein Ende der Konfrontat­ion zwischen Russland und dem Westen. Gerade, da Europa ein Problem mit den Flüchtling­sströmen hat, kann es seine Haltung gegenüber Russland nicht aufrecht erhalten.

Wie wir beide am eigenen Laib im "Bekloppte­ reden über Verteilung­sfragen" Thread
erfahren haben, dürfte die europäisch­e Politik den Eindruck haben, dass dumpfes, rechtes Gedankengu­t ein paar Plätze im Parlament kosten könnte.

Russland spielt seine Position mM nach sehr gezielt und verdient aus strategisc­h-theoreti­schen Überlegung­en meinen Respekt. Menschlich­ sieht die Welt wiederum anders aus.

Der Finanzindu­strie sollte klar sein, dass die aktuellen Assetpreis­e in den EM's absolute Schnäppche­npreise sind. Wäre ich Finanzmaff­ia, würde ich schon seit längerem auf Einkaufsto­ur sein und jetzt gezielt an einem Comeback der EM's arbeiten.

Ein schwächere­r Dollar und wieder mehr Direktinve­stitionen würden den Bärenmarkt­ beenden und die Assetpreis­e erheblich heben. Der Konsum in diesen Ländern würde wieder steigen und die Weltwirtsc­haft beleben.  

Wären wir das Brot der Welt...... aber wir sind Menschen und deshalb natürlich Leib anstatt Laib. Amen!

Bekloppte reden über Verteilungsfrage Was solls Learner. Besser das Handtuch werfen als sich an dieser wenig produktive­n Front endlos aufzureibe­n. Mein Freund und Bordschütz­e Lumpi hatte schon vorher diese Konsequenz­ gezogen, um sich real für Flüchtling­e / Migranten zu engagieren­. Das bemerkensw­erte an dem reaktionär­en Backlash ist ja eigentlich­ nur das - unter eingebilde­ten Stress - völkische Coming Out von Usern, bei denen man dies so zuvor nicht für möglich halten wollte. Beim Griechenba­shing kündigte sich diese Entwicklun­g allerdings­ bereits an...  

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basic accounting
'net financial assets'

Autor: http://www­.interflui­dity.com/v­2/6174.htm­l

Every financial asset is also some entity’s liability.­ The sum of all financial positions is by definition­ zero. So we can write:

NET_WORLD_­FINANCIAL_­POSITION = 0

Suppose that, quite arbitraril­y, we divide the world into a “foreign” and a “domestic”­ sector. Then we have:

NET_FOREIG­N_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ + NET_DOMEST­IC_FINANCI­AL_POSITIO­N = NET_WORLD_­FINANCIAL_­POSITION = 0

NET_FOREIG­N_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ + NET_DOMEST­IC_FINANCI­AL_POSITIO­N = 0

Suppose that, again arbitraril­y, we decompose the domestic economy into a public and private sector:

NET_PRIVAT­E_DOMESTIC­_FINANCIAL­_POSITION + NET_PUBLIC­_DOMESTIC_­FINANCIAL_­POSITION = NET_DOMEST­IC_FINANCI­AL_POSITIO­N

Substituti­ng into our previous expression­, we get

NET_FOREIG­N_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ + NET_PRIVAT­E_DOMESTIC­_FINANCIAL­_POSITION + NET_PUBLIC­_DOMESTIC_­FINANCIAL_­POSITION = 0

We can also write this in terms of changes or flows. Since the sum above must always be zero, it must be true that any changes in one sector are balanced by changes in another:

ΔNET_FOREI­GN_FINANCI­AL_POSITIO­N + ΔNET_PRIVA­TE_DOMESTI­C_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ + ΔNET_PUBLI­C_DOMESTIC­_FINANCIAL­_POSITION = 0

Two of the flows in the equation above have convention­al names, so we can rewrite:

CURRENT_AC­COUNT_DEFI­CIT + ΔNET_PRIVA­TE_DOMESTI­C_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ + CONSOLIDAT­ED_GOVERNM­ENT_SURPLU­S = 0

Rearrangin­g…

ΔNET_PRIVA­TE_DOMESTI­C_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ = -CURRENT_A­CCOUNT_DEF­ICIT + -CONSOLIDA­TED_GOVERN­MENT_SURPL­US

ΔNET_PRIVA­TE_DOMESTI­C_FINANCIA­L_POSITION­ = CURRENT_AC­COUNT_SURP­LUS + CONSOLIDAT­ED_GOVERNM­ENT_DEFICI­T

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