Posts tagged 'EUR'

The dollar-euro repo arb?… Not yet

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Jul 09 2012 20:35 | Comment |

Well, here’s one answer to a question we’d been wondering about since last week, when the ECB lowered the deposit rate from 0.25 per cent to zero.

We were curious to know whether some EUR-denominated investors would switch into USD short-term markets in a search for yield. Read more

The euro and the “hope” trade

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Jun 06 2012 21:54 | Comment |

One other thing from Wednesday’s SocGen Hedge Fund Watch that’s worth noting, especially given the ECB’s decision to hold rates steady earlier today:

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Euro-mysticism

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Aug 02 2010 16:05 | Comment |

Fibonacci analysis alert — the euro punched through $1.3125 on Monday:

The faithful have apparently been waiting for this level to be reached, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. It’s, err, the magic Fibonacci 38.2 per cent retracement from a recent trough against the dollar in June to a previous peak in November — presaging a leap towards $1.50. Read more

Dollar signs and European bank stress

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Jun 28 2010 15:36 | Comment |

Whatever happened to the dollar funding crisis?

If you’ll remember — central banks restarted dollar swap lines in May, after fears of banks’ exposure to bad sovereign debt dried up liquidity in the market. There wasn’t exactly a stampede to use the facilities when they opened, though. Read more