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Por cierto, no sé si se ha comentado ésto, pero tenemos una suspensión de pagos calentita:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/lebanon-to-default-on-debt-for-first-time-amid-financial-crisis
Lebanon state prosecutor blocks order to freeze assets of 20 banksLebanon’s state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks, warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos, according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters. Local lenders are at the heart of a financial crisis crippling Lebanon as the clock runs down on its looming debt maturities, including a $1.2 billion Eurobond due on March 9.
After Debt Default Move, Lebanon Faces Reform Challenge Lebanon's debt burden, long among the largest in the world, is now equivalent to nearly 170 percent of its gross domestic product.Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Saturday his government would suspend payment of a $1.2 billion Eurobond maturity due on Monday and seek debt restructuring because of dwindling foreign currency reserves.
Líbano anuncia el primer impago de deuda de su historia
Oil prices drop: Why Saudi Arabia has started a price war with RussiaSaudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is attempting to punish Russia, the world's second-largest producer, by slashing the price of oil. Saudi Arabia started a price war with Russia and has pledged to unleash its pent-up supply onto a market reeling from falling demand because of the coronavirus outbreak.Oil prices have plunged more than 20 per cent after Saudi Arabia slashed its official selling price, putting futures at the lowest level since 1991, at the start of the first Gulf War and the lowest since February 12, 2016.(...)Saudi Arabia plans to boost crude output above 10 million barrels per day (bpd) in April after the current supply deal between OPEC and Russia, - known as OPEC+ - expires at the end of March, two sources told Reuters on Sunday.Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other major producers last battled for market share like this between 2014 and 2016 to try to squeeze out production from the United States, now the world's biggest oil producer as flows from shale oil fields doubled the country's output during the last decade."Saudi Arabia and Russia are entering into an oil price war that is likely to be limited and tactical," Eurasia Group said in a note."The most likely outcome of this crisis is entrenchment into a painful process that lasts several weeks or months, until prices are low enough to ... some form of compromise on resumed OPEC+ production restraint."
El choque entre Arabia Saudí y Rusia derrumba hasta un 30% el precio del petróleoDesde hacía cerca de 30 años el precio del petróleo no sufría un descalabro de la magnitud de la vivida hoy. El barril de Brent se hunde hasta un 30% y toca mínimos de 2012, en 31 dólares. La negativa de Rusia a sumarse a los recortes de la OPEP ha provocado que Arabia Saudí rompa todo lo acordado y anuncie un aumento de producción.
Arabia Saudita declara la guerra de precios petrolera. Mayor caída del crudo en 1 día desde 1991 aumenta el crash en bolsa.[…]El mayor exportador de petróleo del mundo está intentando castigar a Rusia, el segundo productor mundial, por no apoyar los recortes de producción propuestos la semana pasada por la Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo (OPEP).Arabia Saudita, Rusia y otros grandes productores lucharon por última vez por una cuota de mercado como esta entre 2014 y 2016 para tratar de exprimir la producción de los Estados Unidos, que ha crecido hasta convertirse en el mayor productor de petróleo del mundo, ya que los flujos de los campos de petróleo de esquisto duplicaron su producción en la última década.[…]https://serenitymarkets.com/todos-los-comentarios/materias-primas/arabia-saudita-declara-la-guerra-de-precios-petrolera-mayor-caida-del-crudo-en-1-dia-desde-1991-aumenta-el-crash-en-bolsa/
Blackstone y Cerberus pierden dinero con los pisos comprados a la bancaLa digestión de las grandes carteras de inmuebles a la banca por parte de los fondos está resultando pesada, a tenor de los resultados que han cosechado en 2019, el primer ejercicio en el que ha estado bajo su gestión tras el cierre de las operaciones. Blackstone y Cerberus no han conseguido que estos lotes, adquiridos al Santander y BBVA, sean rentables, ya que han generado pérdidas millonarias.Según los datos públicos, la sociedad creada por Blackstone, Quasar Investments, con los pisos, suelos y créditos impagados comprados al Santander por un valor neto de 10.000 millones generó unos números rojos de 714 millones el ejercicio pasado. Un agujero que el Santander comparte, con 350 millones, ya que conserva el 49% de la firma constituida con los activos tóxicos heredados del Popular.Menos relevantes han sido las pérdidas de la empresa que comparten Cerberus y BBVA, ya que se sitúan en 48 millones. De esta manera, las consecuencia para la entidad son limitadas ya que, a diferencia del Santander, ostenta únicamente el 20% de la firma, que se denomina Divarian, y en ella no se incluye préstamos.Por contra, el también fondo Lone Star sí ha podido obtener rendimientos de su inversión con el ladrillo de CaixaBank, aunque éste es poco significativo. Coral Homes, la división constituida con los pisos y suelo adquiridos al banco de origen catalán, obtuvo un beneficio de 6,4 millones de euros.(...)Al Santander le quedan aún por deshacerse de una cartera de inmuebles de casi 9.000 millones, procedente de su actividad al margen del Popular. La entidad tuvo que posponer el ejercicio pasado la venta de dos carteras relevantes con pisos y suelos debido a la incertidumbre política y económico, que frenó la mayor parte de este tipo de operaciones.
Central banks in emerging markets face a ‘dilemma’ after oil prices plunge, says analystThe plunge in oil prices has hit many emerging market currencies — and their central banks now face a “policy dilemma” of how to support their respective economies amid an expected slowdown in growth, an analyst said on Monday.Central banks across emerging markets are, on the one hand, facing huge sell-offs in their currencies; and on the other hand, a slowdown in growth,” Cedric Chehab, head of country risk and global strategy at Fitch Solutions, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”“So what do they do? Do they cut interest rates to stimulate growth or do they raise interest rates to support their currencies? I think a lot of central banks are going to be squeezed by this policy dilemma now,” he added.(...)That hit to oil demand, coupled with an expected increase in supply, is dealing a “double whammy” to oil markets, said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData.“Going forward, it doesn’t seem as if we’re going to get much better news unless this (price fall) actually draws Russia back or it gets Saudi back to ... the negotiating table,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday.Some analysts added that the lower oil prices could spur oil importers such as China and India to stock up. But Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy at Mizuho, warned that given all the challenges facing the global economy now, lower oil prices is “a far cry from a panacea” for anyone.Varathan cited India as an example. He pointed out that a fall in oil prices would typically lead to a “high-performing rupee and a lot of relief in the equity markets,” but the same trend wouldn’t happen this time when “everyone is concerned about a demand shock.”“That’s going to be bad all around,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday.
Es tiempo de tenerlo todo vendido y en euros. Se empezará a salir de esto a mediados de los 2020, siempre y cuando Occidente incorpore los elementos de economía de planificación central cuya falta tanto lo debilita. Con el modelito popularcapitalista muere su ideología de acompañamiento, ese falsoliberalismo que es el neoliberalismo, que nosotros llamamos Pensamiento Merchero.
A Fake Recovery Is Worse Than a Healthy RecessionAs I write this article early in the morning of March 9th, 2020, S&P 500 futures are limited down after crashing 5%, WTI crude has fallen by $13 a barrel, and the 10-Year treasury is now yielding just 0.34%. The proximate cause of today’s historic selloff is the worsening Coronavirus outbreak. As a point of unfortunate irony, it is not China’s widely ridiculed authoritarian response to the outbreak that now appears to be the biggest risk, it is the apathetic response in many Western countries. Despite months of forewarning, testing is only now being adequately scaled up, travel restrictions have not been placed on countries and regions with thousands of cases, and travelers coming from virus hot spots are still not being screened at airports. Nonetheless, it would be a great loss if history remembers this selloff and whatever follows it as having been a result of the Coronavirus. While the Coronavirus was the match, the kindling was provided by the horribly misguided monetary and economic policies that central banks and governments have maintained since the Global Financial Crisis.[/color] Those policies have created enormous systemic fragility that now threatens to turn a transitory economic shock into something much more destructive. It need not have been this way. The original sin at the core of it all is the “Wealth Effect.” It is the idea that endless accommodation and hand-holding by central banks around the world could launder artificial gains in financial assets into some sort of self-sustaining expansion. Although the gains in financial assets have been astounding, the transfer to the real economy has always been pyrrhic. Debt levels have exploded higher, capital misallocation has been rampant, and investors hypnotized. Most Western governments never addressed the structural problems eroding their economic competitiveness, relying instead on the crutches of endless accommodative monetary policy and deficit spending. In short, it has been a matter of policy to disconnect risk assets from their risks. For years, critics have been tediously warning that something would eventually come along that central banks couldn’t paper over. I, for one, thought it would be the eventual rise of inflation. At the moment, it appears that the Coronavirus outbreak may be ‘it.’ It is certainly something that central banks have no control over. Remember, however, that even if the Coronavirus outbreak passes, or markets somehow learn to ignore it, eventually something will come along and end this charade. A recession is what the global economy needs and sooner or later it is going to get one. [/i]