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Im Moment kann es nach dem Longsqueeze auch schnell wieder 100 Punkte im Dow hoch gehen, also heute abend bringt es nichts. Ich warte wohl die technische Reaktion morgen ab, das ist sicherer als nun zu zocken. Sollte es heute abend noch mal deutlich hochgehen, aber schon heute.
Die W'Rally dürfte nun aber im Eimer sein :-)))
In a report "Recession Coming" released today, the bank's US team said the credit crunch had started to inflict serious damage on US companies."Slipping sales and tightening credit are pushing companies into liquidation mode, especially in motor vehicles," it said.
"Three-month dollar Libor spreads have jumped by 60 to 80 basis points over the last month. High yield spreads have widened even more significantly. The absolute cost of borrowing is higher than in June."
"As delinquencies and defaults soar, lenders are tightening credit for commercial, credit card and auto lending, as well as for all mortgage borrowers," said the report, written by the bank's chief US economist Dick Berner. He said the foreclosure rate on residential mortgages had reached a 19-year high of 5.59pc in the third quarter while the glut of unsold properties would lead to a 40pc crash in housing construction.
"We think overall housing starts will run below one million units in each of the next two years -- a level not seen in the history of the modern data since 1959," he said.....
Like Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers, the bank no longer believes Asia and Europe will come to the rescue as America slows.
It has slashed its 2008 growth forecast for Japan from 1.9pc to 0.9pc, and warned that credit stress will weigh heavily on the eurozone.http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Ach so: Vermutlich dauert die Topbildung noch ein paar Tage (war Anfang November auch so), da bleibt noch genug Zeit um zu shorten. Umgedrehte V-Tops sind sehr sehr selten. Also Geduld!
Note that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers, have all begun to tear up the "decoupling" manual. - the pre-crunch script assuring us that the world could get along fine as the US buckled.
"What began as a U.S.-specific shock is morphing into a global shock," said Peter Berezin, a Goldman Sachs strategist."There is a clear risk that some of the hot housing markets in Europe and some emerging markets will cool dramatically," he said. The bank has begun "shorting" the Chilean peso. Is the metals boom over?
In Europe, not a single junk bond has been issued since August. Spreads on Euribor - the rate used to price mortgages in Spain, France, Italy, and Ireland - reached 93 basis points last week, a new record. This is tantamount to four rate rises for homeowners.
Thomas Mayer, Europe economist for Deutsche Bank, said the European Central Bank must cut rates immediately, regardless of the lingering inflation threat."This could go beyond just a normal recession. It could turn into a real economy-wide crunch that we cannot stop," he said
Four months after the global credit system suffered its August heart attack, nothing has been resolved.The US market for Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) shed another $23bn last week. The outstanding volume has fallen for 17 weeks in a row as lenders refuse to roll over loans, cutting off $393bn in funding since August.For now, consensus has settled on the view that subprime losses will total $500bn, and crimp lending by $2 trillion as bank multiples kick into reverse.
This assumes there are no more shoes to drop. Yet shoes are dangling precariously across the global credit system. We may soon have to add the terms HELOCs and 'monoline insurers' to our crunch lexicon.HELOCs are home equity loans, the money extracted from houses to pay bills and keep shopping. Many borrowers pushed their debt to 110pc of house values at the top of the bubble.
Moody's says 16.5pc of these loans are in arrears beyond 60 days. The HELOC market is roughly $600bn, so add another $100bn to the funeral pyre. These niches add up.
Monoliners are specialist insurers who earn fees by lending their AAA ratings to US states, counties, and cities for bond issues - the safest corner of the credit industry.
The nasty twist is that most have ventured into mortgage debt to spice returns. They now face enough losses to threaten their AAA standing.......
US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson confronts the very real danger of a credit implosion spiralling into a full-blown depression. Given the risks, he can be forgiven for pushing through a rescue plan last week that amounts to a flagrant abuse of contract law and capitalist principles.
His subprime rate freeze is undoubtedly a stinker. The reckless are bailed-out. Those who scrimped to amass a little equity get stiffed. Moral hazard runs amok. But bankruptcy settlements are always ugly. This differs only in scale.Mr Paulson's New Deal may at least reduce systemic risk. Frozen rates concentrate losses in the lower tiers of mortgage debt, but rescue the upper tiers, which is where the threat lies for the financial system. Would free marketeers rather see the whole edifice of capitalism burned to the ground to make their point?
The root cause of this staggering debacle lies in errors made long ago by the Federal Reserve and fellow sinners. It was they who inflated the credit bubble by holding interest rates too low for too long. It was they who lulled their nations into suicidal levels of debt.
The strategic failure of a whole generation of economists, bankers, and policy-makers has been so enormous that it may now take a strong draught of socialism to save the Western democracies. We start - but may not end - with the nationalization of Northern Rock.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/...ILC-mostviewedbox
Der Grund ist wohl folgender: Viele Trader (erkennbar an der schnellen Reaktion) haben Longposis aufgebaut, obwohl sie der Rally nicht trauten. In der Erwartung, sie nach der Senkung an einen anderen Trottel weiterverkaufen zu können. Doch da alle dieselbe Idee hatten, funktionierte es nicht. Typisches "sell the news", nur extremer Hardcore diesmal.
Festzuhalten bleibt, dass die Bullen schwächer/unsicherer sind als sie glaubten. Die W'Rally dürfte sich damit in Kürze ins Gegenteil verkehren.
Nach fast 5 Jahren Bullenmarkt sind die Margen im ober(sten) Bereich - von daher gibt keinen grossen Spielraum andere negative Effekte durch eine Verbesserung der Margen "abzufedern". Gegenteil - die Margen drohen zu fallen, wenn die Konjunktur (Nachfrage) etwas nachlässt.
Weiter hoch gefragt wird mM aber Öl und alle Formen der Energie bleiben - und damit auch der Inflationsdruck erhalten bleiben. Ich bleibe daher bei meiner Strategie treu, weiter in Energie & Edelmetall(aktien) zu bleiben - und gelegentlicher Absicherung durch Shorts - und kleineren Zocks wie SHORTS auf VW und Böhler Uddeholm.
Will the Commercial Real Estate Market Fall? Of course it will.
by Reggie Middleton
Required reading for this article: The very first paragraph of the very first post I made on this blog and "the Great Global Macro Experiment".
Of course commercial real estate is going to fall. Why? For the exact same reason residential real estate is falling. But, there hasn't been an oversupply of commercial real estate, you say. Well, the oversupply is not the core reason why residential is falling right now. Residential RE's problem is that easy, cheap money brought upon wreckless, imprudent speculation from players who were not well versed in the real estate game - and even those who should have known better. The current oversupply is a byproduct of that liquidity induced speculation. Why split hairs? Because the devil is in the details. The downfall of CRE is the rampant speculation that caused many to significantly overpay for assets that are quite illiquid and take significant expertise and time to improve (or even sell), even incrementally. Not only did they overpay, but they applied significant leverage as well, much more than the industry norm.
A Quick Commercial Real Estate Primer: Pricing Commercial Real Estate
There are several ways to price and value CRE, but the simplest and most straight forward is the capitalization rate (cap rate).
The cap rate is simply net operating income/price. The result is a yield that you can use to compare to other investments in order guage relative price/return - such as the the 10 yr. note yielding 4.114%. For instance, I buy a building for $100,000 and it throws off $10,000 after all operating expenses. $10,000/$100,000 = .10 or 10% = the cap rate. Thus this building is priced at a 10% cap rate, or priced by the seller to give the buyer a 10% return, unleveraged. This 10% return priced into the building allows a 589 basis point risk premia over the 10 yr treasury. Why, you ask? Because the office building is much riskier, being very illiquid, taking many months or years to close on and sell. The office building inherently has risk of litigation, operational risk, and market risk. It also requires a modicum of operational expertise, and in addition there is credit risk (through your lessees(?) So, as you can see, the risk premia is well deserved.
Now, many (in order to juice the return a bit) apply leverage through mortgages, bank loans, etc. to spice up the return, albeit at the risk of higher volatility of cash flows and the possiblity of running negative cash flow in tight years. Assume, I used 30% of my own monies ($30,000) to buy this building and borrowed $70,000 for the rest. I now get that same $10,000 net operating income off of a $30,000 cash outlay, vs a $10,000 cash outlay. So now I yield 33% return instead of a 10% return due to leverage. Of course my astute readers realize that the cost of this leverage was not factored in. Let's assume the debt service for this loan is $4,900 per year. I must deduct that interest and principal repayment from my operating profit. This is reality. Thus, my leveraged yield is really somthing akin to 17%. Still not bad, and still better than 10%.
The realities of the liquity boom generated leverage, the absence of risk premia & how the combination of the two will bring down commercial real estate
There are additional caveats to the use of leverage. For one, it greatly reduces operating flexibility. If you paid all cash in the deal above, and two out four of tenants move out or go bankrupt, your (variable) cashflows are not as hindered by your debt service (fixed) which offers you the flexiblity to pay more bills until you replace your income. If you took on debt, you have less room to manuever since the debt service is a fixed cost. Of course, the more debt you take on, the less room you have.
Now, over the last year or two, I have witnessed market participants purchase apartment and office buildings at cap rates of,,,, hold your breath now,,,,, 1.5% -4.5%. That's right. These are supposed professionals, acquiring multi-million or even multi-billion dollar risky assets yield less than a 10 yr treasury or your local money market fund - much less. There are only way two ways to justify paying a low cap rate:
A clear path towards increasing net operating income, such as doubling rents (this ain't gonna in this economic downturn with corporate earnings disappointing and the residential housing stock at all time highs), or reducing expenses, or -
selling to an even greater fool at an even lower cap rate. With the easy money drying up and CMBS market looking rather scary, fools that are easily departed with thier money are increasinly hard to come by. Now, we can find fools, still - but the money part is the kicker these days - And even if you find a fool who still has some of his money, how do you convince even him to pay between 0% to 1% return on his money for your risky asset when treasuries are currently yielding ove 4%. This is not even taking into consideration leverage - which would assuredely drive this asset into negative cash flow, with NO MARGIN for ERROR in operating. Trust me, you will need a margin for error. Everyone makes mistakes, even me. I made one back in the early '90s... :-)
Sam Zell, one of the most successful real estate investors of our time, sold his Equity Office Properties Trust of Class A and B buildings to Blackrock for what I assuredely thought was a fools price. When I saw the numbers, I said easy money or not, there is an ass for every seat. Well, little do I know. Blackrock found someone to pass the cherry on to, and in near real time at that - and they paid even lower cap rates than Blackrock did. Hats off to the Blackrock folk. You found the guys at the very tip top of the market to drop those cap rates off on.
Now, the problem for the last guys to buy these properties (as Sam Zell sits there smiling on his $21 billion pile of cash) is that it is going to be nigh impossilbe to find someone who will pay a ZERO cap rate, and try as you might it will be damn hard to raise lease rates amongst an economic hard landing and negative trending earnings... And thus, this is the fate of commercial real estate. The many guys who overpaid, will get burnt as values tumble from their peak bubble highs. Old school real estate guys email me and say they never even heard of 5, 6 and 7 percent cap rates until recently (after 30 years in the biz). Well, some of these guys are pushing zero (literally 1.5% to 3 and 4%).
So I told my team to find the low cap rate buyers so we can short 'em. We, of course, started looking at the profile of those who bought from Blackrock (I mean, who wouldn't?) and then moved on when we saw that their were some entities that were in some real (and I mean real) trouble. Here are a couple of companies that we passed on because they weren't bad enough off:
Vornado - implied cap rate of 4.2% (currently about that of a risk free note, but fraught with risk), and debt to equity of 163%. This means $1.63 of debt to every dollar of equity or in terms of residential real estate, like a 163 LTV loan.
Equity Residental - implied cap rate of 5% (currently about that of a risk free note, but fraught with risk), and debt to equity of 193%. This means $1.93 of debt to every dollar of equity or in terms of residential real estate, a near 200 LTV loan. Could you imagine going to a bank (like Countrywide, with mortgage backed structured products insured by Ambac) and saying, "Hey, I'd like to borrow twice what my house is apprasing for, and I want to do it now, Dammit!" :-) Alas, this is what "The Great Global Macro Experiment" has wrought.
If you think these numbers might look just a little hairy, just wait and see the numbers of the companies that I am actually shorting. The one's above were actually cut off of the short's short list, so to say. Once you see, you will be a believer just like me - commercial real estate is on its way down.
Details of transactions for sale of properties by Blackstone Group
Date Particulars of transaction Purchaser Amount
12th June, 2007 Sold Extended Stay Hotels The Lightstone Group LLC $8 billion
9th August, 2007 Sold 38 assets comprised of 106 office buildings and 5.9 million square feet in San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Salt Lake City. The properties are from the CarrAmerica West Coast Collection that Blackstone Group purchased last year as part of a national portfolio. GE Real Estate-owned Arden Realty NA
17th July, 2007 Merlin Entertainments Group, the leisure park operator owned by Blackstone, sold its property assets to London property firm Prestbury Group plc owned by real estate investor Nick Leslau. Prestbury Group plc $1.27 billion
27th August, 2007 Sold 9 suburban Chicago office complexes to GE Real Estate. Blackstone acquired these properties when it bought Equity Office Properties Trust. GE Real Estate $1.05 billion
27th August, 2007 Sold a portfolio of downtown Chicago properties to Tishman Speyer. Blackstone acquired these properties when it bought Equity Office Properties Trust Tishman Speyer $1.72 billion
9th February, 2007 Sold 6.5 million square feet of Manhattan office space Macklowe Properties. Blackstone acquired these properties when it bought Equity Office Properties Trust. Macklowe Properties $7 billion
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9001.htm
das es heute so stark runter geht hätte ich nicht gedacht. was ist passiert. die 25p zinssenkung war seit der andeutung vor ein paar tagen bereits in die kurse eingepreist. lediglich eine 50p senkung hätte heute für neue hochs gesorgt.
immerhin lag ich mit einer vermutung richtig, denn im gestriegen beitrag schrieb ich dass der nächste draw-down heftiger ausfallen würde als die bisherigen. nur dass er ausgerechnet heute kommen würde....!?
hm,
ich denke eher dass meherere Zinssenkungen, vielleicht auch 2x50Bp. im Markt eingerechnet sind. Kleines Zögern, und schon zeigt sich wie fragil der Anstieg von 800 Punkten in den letzten Tagen ist.
In der Tat, die Bücher dürften geschlossen sein. Es war ein gutes Jahr für die Börsianer. Im Januar geht es wieder weiter.
11.12.2007 - 19:50 Uhr (von finanztreff.de) |
FTD: Banken reißen sich um EZB-Geld |
Die Banken der Eurozone haben für Notenbankgeld so hohe Aufschläge wie noch nie geboten. Die Institute kamen bei der Auktion von Dreimonatsgeld der Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) im Durchschnitt bei einem Zinssatz von 4,88 Prozent zum Zuge. |
Das war das höchste Niveau seit November 2000 und deutlich mehr als Marktteilnehmer erwartet hatten. Deren Prognose lag laut einer Reuters-Umfrage bei 4,79 Prozent. Händler machten für die hohe Nachfrage die durch die Kreditkrise bedingte Nervosität sowie das nahende Jahresende verantwortlich. Langfristige Mittel sind bei den Banken derzeit gefragt, weil das Jahresende naht, zu dem sie ein bestimmtes Liquiditätspolster benötigen. Wie gefragt die Mittel sind zeigen die hohen Renditeabstände zwischen Geldern, die noch in diesem Jahr fällig sind und Mitteln, die erst im Januar zurückgezahlt werden müssen: Die Spanne beträgt 0,85 Prozentpunkte.
Insgesamt teilte die EZB langfristige Liquidität im Volumen von 60 Mrd. Euro zu
- Banken hatten Bietungen im Umfang von 105,1 Mrd. Euro eingereicht. Zugleich entzog sie 21 Mrd. Euro überschüssige Mittel am Tagesgeldmarkt. Beim regulären Wochentender verlieh die EZB rund 35 Mrd. Euro mehr als benötigt wurde. Der Satz für dreimonatige Euro-Ausleihungen unter Banken (Euribor) kletterte den 20. Tag in Folge auf 4,93 Prozent. Die Differenz zum Leitzins liegt damit auf Rekordniveau. Mit Spannung schaut der Markt nun nächste Woche auf den Zwei-Wochen-Tender der EZB, der ebenfalls über den Jahresschluss hinausreicht. "Es wird eine breite Bietungsspanne erwartet", sagte Jochen Teichmann, Geldhändler bei der DZ Bank. (...)
Autor/Autoren: Yasmin Osman und Doris Grass (Frankfurt)
(c) FTD
... nachdem die postings von Kicky und Wawidu an doomsday-Stimmung kaum noch zu überbieten sind
(# 11721 729, 733, 737 - unbedingt lesen, auch wenn's etwas dauert !!)
11.12.2007 - 20:10 Uhr (von finanztreff.de) |
FTD: Neues Kreditloch von Freddie Mac |
Der zweitgrößte US-Hypothekenfinanzierer Freddie Mac erwartet Zahlungsausfälle in Höhe von 10 bis 12 Mrd. $ auf laufende Kredite. Das Schlimmste auf dem Immobilienmarkt stehe erst noch bevor. |
Das sagte Freddie-Mac-Chef Richard Syron am Dienstag auf einer Investorenkonferenz. Er glaube, dass die Preise auf dem US-Immobilienmarkt um zehn Prozent fallen würden, im Vergleich zu den Boomzeiten der Branche. In den kommenden Monaten werde die Öffentlichkeit immer mehr die Auswirkungen der Zahlungsausfälle sehen. Dies könne die gesamte Wirtschaft gefährden. Freddie Mac hatte bereits zuvor Abschreibungen in Milliardenhöhe angekündigt. Für das dritte Quartal hatte das Institut im November einen Verlust von zwei Mrd. $ gemeldet. Zum Ausblick sagte Syron: "Unser Ergebnis im vierten Quartal wird nicht besser ausfallen als im dritten". Er könne keine schnelle Lösung der Lage versprechen. Die Ausfallrate für Kredite würde zwischen 3 und 3,5 Prozent liegen gegenüber der bisherigen Rekordausfallrate von 2,4 Prozent aus dem Jahr 1991. Freddie-Mac-Aktien rutschten nach den Äußerungen Syrons fast 4,8 Prozent ab, auch die Papiere des Rivalen Fannie Mae fielen um 2,8 Prozent. (c) FTD
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Ich bleibe bei meiner These, dass die Nachfrage nach Öl, Rohstoffen und Gold (und damit indirekt auch nach EUR/USD) in Erwartung der kommenden weltweiten Rezession [siehe dazu auch den Thread von Permanent], die von den USA ausgeht, nachlassen wird. Dies dürfte zum Platzen auch der übrigen Asset-Blasen nach Housing führen. Roubini hat das in einem Interview, das hier kürzlich gepostet wurde, sehr schön und schlüssig dargelegt.
Insofern kann der heutige 2,7-%-Anstieg beim Öl auch nur eine Shortcover-Rallye gewesen sein - wegen der Ungewissheit, wie die Fed-Entscheidung ausgeht. Wenn man ab dem ATH fast 13 % im Plus mit Öl-Shorts ist, sind Gewinnmitnahmen keine Überraschung. Der Anstieg könnte daher gut als technische Erholung im beginnenden Downtrend seit dem ATH firmieren (außer es passieren noch Überraschungen im Iran...).
Was ist passiert?
Mal abgesehen davon konnte man zumindest schon mal short traden. Mehr wollte ich ja nie sagen. Ich gehe aber genauso wie AL davon aus, dass sich Öl mit beginnender Wirtschaftsflaute weiter abschwächt auf einen Bereich von 78-80 Dollar.
Zusammenfassung: Es droht von USA ausgehend ein globaler Credit Crunch, der weit über den Rahmen einer "normalen Rezession" hinausgeht. Darauf fußt die Erwartung von Thomas Mayer von der Deutschen Bank (siehe Auszug unten), dass auch die EZB das hehre Inflationsziel zur Rettung des globalen Finanzsystems aufgeben - sprich: die Zinsen senken - muss.
Da dies im Daily Telegraph, einer britischen Zeitung, erschien, musste der Autor weniger "Blätter" vor den Mund nehmen als seine US-Kollegen, die solche harten Fakten lieber nicht so klar aussprechen.
AUSZUG: In Europe, not a single junk bond has been issued since August. Spreads on Euribor - the rate used to price mortgages in Spain, France, Italy, and Ireland - reached 93 basis points last week, a new record. This is tantamount to four rate rises for homeowners.
Thomas Mayer, Europe economist for Deutsche Bank, said the European Central Bank must cut rates immediately, regardless of the lingering inflation threat. "This could go beyond just a normal recession. It could turn into a real economy-wide crunch that we cannot stop," he said.