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Sweden announces emergency support for energy producersEU also considering action as rising collateral demands prompt policymakers to warn of ‘financial stability threat’Sweden will give emergency liquidity support to electricity producers as its prime minister warned that Russia’s decision to halt gas deliveries to Europe could place its financial system under severe strain.Magdalena Andersson said on Saturday that the government would offer hundreds of billions of kroner in funding to electricity producers, who have seen the amount of collateral they must post with exchanges balloon in response to soaring gas and power prices and increasing volatility.EU energy ministers will also consider taking steps to ease the lack of liquidity for energy companies across the bloc at an emergency meeting on Friday, according to two officials briefed on the discussions.Andersson warned that, left unchecked, rising collateral demands for electricity producers could ripple through the main Nasdaq Clearing market in Stockholm and, in the worst case, spark a financial crisis.Her remarks came after Russia said on Friday that it would no longer supply gas via the Nordstream 1 pipeline. That announcement came after energy markets had closed for the weekend.“Yesterday’s announcement not only risks leading to a ‘war winter’ but also threatens our financial stability,” Andersson said, standing alongside Sweden’s financial regulator, central bank governor and finance minister at an emergency press conference on Saturday.Finnish finance minister Annika Saarikko said on Twitter that her country would also act. “The concern is shared. Similar preparations are already well under way in Finland,” Saarikko tweeted.The dramatic actions underscored the seriousness of the situation facing Europe as it scrambles to secure enough energy ahead of winter and tries to avoid the spread of distress among electricity producers.After surging to an all-time high eight days ago gas and electricity prices cooled slightly this week, with the benchmark European gas and German power contracts both declining by around a third — though they remain about 10 times historical levels. But the prolonged shutdown of Nord Stream 1 could increase volatility and boost prices when trading opens again on Monday.Officials in Brussels are working on several possible ways of helping energy companies, including emergency liquidity support, the two officials said. Margin calls were becoming “far too big” for electricity producers to pay, said one.Other measures could include price caps on either electricity or gas and ways to decouple the gas and electricity markets ahead of longer term reform. “Russians will play with us and we are not well equipped to face that,” said the second official.“We are not afraid of Putin’s decisions, we ask Putin to respect their contracts, but if they don’t respect their contracts, we are ready to react,” Paolo Gentiloni, the EU’s economy commissioner, told reporters on Saturday in comments reported by newswires.Eurozone policymakers think that decisions should be made at a national level, according to one person with knowledge of their discussions.Jean Francois Lambert, founder of Lambert Commodities and former head of commodity trade finance at HSBC, said other countries were likely to intervene in their energy markets.“The crisis is moving into the next stage. If one of the large energy companies collapses there are fears there could be a domino effect,” he said. “The call for liquidity is so enormous that maybe one day we have a problem that could harm the whole market.”While the threat of contagion to the wider financial sector was limited, governments needed to act to stop energy markets from “freezing up”, he added.Andersson said that Sweden’s support would apply to all Nordic and Baltic players, and would need approval by the Swedish parliament’s finance committee on Monday.“We need to isolate this in one market so it doesn’t infect the financial sector,” said Stefan Ingves, governor of the Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank.The Swedish authorities said they saw no immediate risk to financial stability, but were worried that otherwise-solvent companies could struggle to find enough liquidity, causing potential ripple effects.“Russia is waging an energy war against Europe to divide us. But we will not let Putin succeed,” Andersson said.Andersson’s comments come a week before parliamentary elections in Sweden with polls pointing to a tight outcome. She said her centre-left government stood ready to act, just as it did over the Covid-19 pandemic.Erik Thedéen, head of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority, said power prices in Sweden had risen 11-fold in the past year, leading to a jump in collateral demands.He added that without liquidity support electricity producers could face bankruptcies and large losses that could “rock” the clearing house. “It is under very severe stress,” he said.Lambert said the situation was not yet a financial crisis. “The large banks in Germany, France, Italy and Spain should be able to stomach this. But if one of their large customers traps them in a liquidity squeeze then you could see all the banks pulling back,” he said.In July, the German government agreed a €15bn rescue package for Uniper, Europe’s largest buyer of Russian gas, and said it would take a 30 per cent stake in the company. It had been losing tens of millions of euros a day since Gazprom first cut supplies of gas to Germany through Nord Stream earlier this year.Late last month Uniper requested €4bn more, as soaring gas prices burnt up its cash reserves. Uniper, majority-owned by Fortum of Finland, said it had already drawn down a €9bn credit line from state development bank KfW.Fortum warned on Monday that its collateral requirements had risen by €1bn to €5bn in the previous week, and that a default by a smaller player would cause “severe disturbances to the Nordic power system”.CitarThe European energy market’s big problemMany European energy companies are profiting from the rise in prices, but there are large discrepancies across the industry.Those which produce gas or generate electricity using renewables or nuclear — where input costs have not risen — should be making large profits. But those reliant on burning gas for electricity generation are more likely to struggle — especially if they have been cut off from Russian supplies.Companies’ need to post additional collateral does not mean trades or hedges are unprofitable, but their positions — often linked to providing gas or power to households and businesses — have rapidly become much more expensive to fund.Companies are struggling to increase their short-term borrowing facilities quickly enough, risking a cash squeeze.Jakob Magnussen, chief credit analyst at Danske Bank, said the big issue for electricity generators was the need for additional short-term funding.To hedge their sales generators will normally short electricity futures contracts until the point they actually produce and sell the power into the market, helping guarantee the price they will receive. But power prices have risen so rapidly in recent weeks that paper losses on the futures contracts have soared, requiring huge amounts of additional collateral to be posted with the exchanges. “Margin calls are really exploding right now, it’s particularly an issue for smaller utilities,” said Magnussen. “Once the contracts mature and the utilities sell the power they will get their money back, but there’s a huge need for additional short-term funding in the meantime and many banks could be reluctant to increase their exposure so rapidly to the sector.”
The European energy market’s big problemMany European energy companies are profiting from the rise in prices, but there are large discrepancies across the industry.Those which produce gas or generate electricity using renewables or nuclear — where input costs have not risen — should be making large profits. But those reliant on burning gas for electricity generation are more likely to struggle — especially if they have been cut off from Russian supplies.Companies’ need to post additional collateral does not mean trades or hedges are unprofitable, but their positions — often linked to providing gas or power to households and businesses — have rapidly become much more expensive to fund.Companies are struggling to increase their short-term borrowing facilities quickly enough, risking a cash squeeze.Jakob Magnussen, chief credit analyst at Danske Bank, said the big issue for electricity generators was the need for additional short-term funding.To hedge their sales generators will normally short electricity futures contracts until the point they actually produce and sell the power into the market, helping guarantee the price they will receive. But power prices have risen so rapidly in recent weeks that paper losses on the futures contracts have soared, requiring huge amounts of additional collateral to be posted with the exchanges. “Margin calls are really exploding right now, it’s particularly an issue for smaller utilities,” said Magnussen. “Once the contracts mature and the utilities sell the power they will get their money back, but there’s a huge need for additional short-term funding in the meantime and many banks could be reluctant to increase their exposure so rapidly to the sector.”
Miles de checos protestan contra las sanciones a Rusia y contra la OTANhttps://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/ucrania-guerra_miles-de-checos-protestan-contra-las-sanciones-a-rusia-y-contra-la-otan/47874200Praga, 3 sep (EFE).- Unas 70.000 personas, según la Policía, exigieron este sábado en Praga la dimisión del Gobierno conservador checo, al que acusan de sumisión a la Unión Europea, y protestaron contra la OTAN y las sanciones impuestas a Rusia por su invasión de Ucrania.Los manifestantes, convocados por partidos opositores y otras organizaciones, han exigido la neutralidad en la guerra de Ucrania, donde el Ejecutivo de Praga ha adoptado una clara posición de apoyo político y militar a Kiev.República Checa ha concedido visados a unos 410.000 ucranianos que han huido de la guerra, de los que más de 100.000 están integrados en el mercado laboral, según indicó este viernes el primer ministro, Petr Fiala, durante una moción de censura a su Gobierno que no prosperó.Representantes de formaciones extraparlamentarias comunistas, euroescépticas y ultranacionalistas se han turnado hoy en el podio de la Plaza Venceslao, centro de la protesta.Algunos de los oradores solicitaron "liberarse de la sumisión política a la UE, la Organización Mundial de la Salud y la ONU".Los manifestantes, reunidos para el eslogan "Chequia primero", protestaron también contra la OTAN, de la que el país es miembro, y pidieron el fin de las sanciones dictadas por la UE contra Rusia por su agresión a Ucrania.También exigieron suministros baratos de gas desde Rusia y protestaron contra los elevados precios de la energía.Fiala calificó la manifestación de "prorrusa" y afirmó que es parte de una campaña de desinformación.Según el político conservador, cuyo país desempeña este semestre la presidencia del turno de la UE, el acto de este sábado fue organizado por fuerzas "de orientación prorrusa, que están cercanas al extremismo y son contrarias a los intereses de la República Checa"."Esos eslóganes y la interpretación de los hechos coinciden con la postura rusa y, en mi opinión, no se corresponden con los intereses de la República Checa", declaró el primer ministro, según informa Radio Praga. EFE
Cita de: dmar en Agosto 28, 2022, 15:55:36 pmEn cuanto a la vivienda, yo creo que el único camino es que el estado construya vivienda básica masivamente en competición con la iniciativa privada.¿Construir más? Sobra vivienda. El congelador Sareb se encarga de ello. Y con la población empezando su declive, con más razón hay más vivienda de lo necesario.
En cuanto a la vivienda, yo creo que el único camino es que el estado construya vivienda básica masivamente en competición con la iniciativa privada.
Germany announces €65bn package to curb soaring energy costsGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a €65bn (£56.2bn) package of measures to combat the threat of rising energy costs in the coming months.The package, much bigger than two previous ones, will include one-off payments to the most vulnerable and tax breaks to energy-intensive businesses.Countries across Europe are considering similar measures.Energy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Europe is trying to wean itself off Russian energy.Two days ago, Russia said it was suspending gas exports to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely.But the stand-off with Russia has forced countries like Germany to find supplies elsewhere, and its stores have increased from less than half full in June to 84% full today.The latest measures come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia is trying to destroy the normal life of every European citizen.Mr Scholz told journalists Germany would get through the winter, adding that Russia was "no longer a reliable energy partner".He said the government would make one-off payments to pensioners, people on benefits and students. There would also be caps on energy bills.Some 9,000 energy-intensive businesses would receive tax breaks to the tune of €1.7bn.A windfall tax on energy company profits would also be used to mitigate bills, Mr Scholz said.The latest package brings the total spent on relief from the energy crisis to almost €100bn, which compares to about €300bn spent on interventions to keep the German economy afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic.Meanwhile UK Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has said she will announce a plan to deal with energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.And EU energy ministers are due to meet on 9 September to discuss how to ease the burden of energy prices across the bloc.
The Housing Market Appears To Be In Free FallHousing market update – The Homebuyer Affordability Fixed Mortgage Index from the National Association of Realtors has plunged to its lowest level since 1989:The late 1980’s experienced what was back then considered a housing bubble, though it was much smaller in scale than the two housing bubbles this century. But here’s the kicker: back then the average rate for a 30-yr fixed-rate agency mortgage was nearly 10%. Price inflation and deteriorating household conditions has turbo-charged the prospective homebuyer’s sensitivity to small changes in interest rates relative to 33 years ago.This explains why the July new home sales report was a complete disaster. The headline SAAR (seasonally adjusted annualized rate) was down 12.6% from June. The SAAR of 511k homes sold was below Wall Street’s forecast of 520k. The YoY SAAR plunged 29.6% and the rate of home sales is at its lowest since January 2016.However, the YoY unadjusted monthly sales showed July new home sales collapsed 32.2% from July 2021. The unadjusted number is much “cleaner” statistically than the SAAR, as it is not subjected to seasonal adjustment modeling errors – only to data collection estimation errors. The months’ supply jumped from 9.1 months in June to 11.2 months in July. This chart should terrify anyone who recently overpaid for a new home or was thinking about buying one:The supply of new homes is nearly as high as it was at its highest after the previous housing bubble popped. The “low inventory” narrative was never completely valid but now it is preposterous. Pending home sales for July fell 1% from June and 20% YoY. On a monthly basis, pendings have dropped 8 of the last 9 months and 9 of the last 12 months. On a YoY basis, pendings have dropped every month for over a year. Not including the pandemic lockdown period, the pending home sales index is at its lowest level since October 2011. Needless to say, the July pending home sale data suggests that August will show another monthly decline in home sales.The mortgage purchase increase declined 0.5% from a week earlier. Not including the pandemic lock-down period, the mortgage purchase index dropped to its lowest level in nearly six years.In a recent issue, I mentioned that Wall Street/corporate home buyers have been rapidly pulling back from the housing market. This past week, Blackstone announced that its Home Partners of America buy-to-rent subsidiary will stop buying homes in 38 cities as of September 1st. It will stop buying in an additional 10 cities on October 1st. In addition to Blackstone, Invitation Homes (INVH), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) and My Community Homes (owned by KKR) announced that they have slowed considerably their home purchases.Up until recently, buy-to-rent or flip homebuyers represented well over 20% of all home sales over the last couple of years. Zillow (Z) shut down its home flipping operations in late 2021. It’s only a matter of time before Opendoor (OPEN) stops buying homes. One of the differences between the 2008 bubble and current bubble is that the corporate buyers largely were not prevalent until after the 2008 bubble had collapsed. However, the corporate home buyers were one of the primary drivers of the housing bubble. Removing the corporate demand from the market equation will accelerate the downward momentum of the market and it’s one of the reasons I believe this housing collapse will be worse than 2008.The chart below makes a compelling argument that home prices are going to go into free fall:The light blue line is the Case-Shiller average home price. The dark blue line is a regression metric composed of the current mortgage rate and months supply. The two lines are highly correlated going back to 1998, the start date of the study. I do not foresee a scenario which prevents the light blue line from “catching down” quickly with the dark blue line. The 60% decline YoY new orders in its FY Q3 reported by TOL (see below) is an indicator that a price collapse is coming.This chart solidifies that argument:Unfortunately, the chart from Redfin only goes back to 2015. But the chart shows the percentage of active listings nationwide with price cuts. In some of the biggest bubble cities (Boise, Austin, Denver) the number of active listings with price cuts are in excess of 50%.A long-time colleague of mine knows the CEO of a large excavating company in Colorado. They primarily do “dirt work” for new homebuilders. They are busy finishing existing projects. However, they do not have any new business on the books for 2023 or 2024. The CEO said “it’s like somebody just turned off the fountain.” If the Fed sticks to the message delivered by Jay Powell at Jackson Hole on Friday just for the next four to six months, the carnage to the housing market will be Biblical.
Bruselas quiere intervenir el mercado para garantizar bienes en caso de crisisLa CE sopesa atribuirse poderes para obligar a fabricantes a priorizar envíos de bienes estratégicos a otras empresas seleccionadas por BruselasLa Comisión Europea sopesa la posibilidad de atribuirse poderes para obligar a fabricantes a priorizar envíos de bienes estratégicos a otras empresas seleccionadas por Bruselas en situaciones de emergencia a nivel europeo, como fue el caso de la pandemia de coronavirus.Un borrador de la Comisión Europea, al que ha tenido acceso Efe, detalla la propuesta de creación de una nueva herramienta, bautizada como Instrumento de Emergencia del Mercado Único, que buscará «asegurar la disponibilidad de bienes y servicios relevantes durante una crisis», así como la libertad de movimiento tanto de estos bienes y servicios como de las personas, algo que no siempre se respetó durante la crisis sanitaria en 2020.Multas de hasta 300.000 eurosEn el caso de que las empresas no cumplieran con la obligación de informar sobre sus capacidades de producción o no priorizaran a los clientes determinados por la Comisión, Bruselas podría imponer multas no superiores al 1,5 % de la facturación media diaria mientras no se cumpla con el requerimiento, una sanción que nunca superaría los 300.000 euros en cualquier caso.El plan de la Comisión, que el organismo prevé presentar dentro de dos semanas y al que tendrán que dar su visto bueno el Consejo (los países), recoge también la creación de un «grupo asesor» compuesto por un representante de cada país de la Unión Europea, y, dependiendo de la situación, miembros de la industria o de foros sectoriales relevantes.Este grupo tendría la capacidad de «aconsejar sobre la necesidad de activar las fases de vigilancia o emergencia» ante una situación de crisis y sobre el uso de los instrumentos que prevé el plan, como las mencionadas recomendaciones u obligaciones para la industria y los Gobiernos o «medidas que vayan más allá», como potenciales restricciones a las exportaciones.«Primero invitar y luego exigir»La Comisión plantea atribuirse la capacidad de «primero invitar y luego exigir si es necesario» que los fabricantes entreguen «productos relevantes durante una crisis a los operadores económicos identificados por la Comisión antes que a cualquier otro cliente».El documento apunta también al problema que supone la ausencia de un proceso estandarizado para intercambiar información sobre capacidades de producción de ciertos bienes «de cara a analizar ciertos riesgos o responder a emergencias en el mercado único» de la UE.Para paliar esta deficiencia, sugiere que se creen «solicitudes de información concreta» a las empresas -que podrían volverse vinculantes- y una obligación para los Estados miembros de «vigilar las cadenas de producción de bienes y servicios de importancia estratégica», para adelantarse a posibles cuellos de botella o limitaciones de los proveedores, por ejemplo.
What is quiet quitting? TikTok trend gets people talking about work ethic, setting boundariesCHICAGO (WLS) -- A TikTok trend called "quiet quitting" has a lot of people talking.While some have described it as doing the bare minimum at work, others say it's really about setting boundaries.That means not doing work beyond what you were hired to do and beyond what you're being paid for. Jim McCoy, senior vice president of Talent Solutions with Manpower Group said the term "quiet quitting" was coined about ten years ago in response to the brain drain out of Venezuela. He said it has become popular in the U.S. as we come out of the pandemic conditions."A lot of employees are taking a moment now to step back and say 'What is it that I can achieve in the course of a day, and how do I really regain a work-life balance for myself?" McCoy said.Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed, an advocacy organization in Chicago, said employees are not being as passive as some might think."I don't think that there's anything silent about what is going on. I think it's extremely explicit. And I think that over time employees have been talking to employers about this. The whole fight for $15 is an example of that. When we fought to pass the fair work week ordinance in Chicago was also tied to making sure that you could own your time in your schedule," Ellens said.But, is there a risk for people who scale back their contributions at work if, for example, there is a recession?"Many people as they're looking to reset kind of their work-life balance they may be perceived as quiet quitting when in fact that really is not their intention at all," said McCoy. "I think it's really important for people to simply reset expectations and have open conversations with their employers. And that is a great way to set yourself up so that you're establishing a new baseline for balance does not impact your future career growth."Both McCoy and Ellens are optimistic that quiet quitting and the discussion it has prompted will bring about real change."I do not believe that the work place and the culture in the work place is going to go back to business as usual. Will it stay as flexible as it is today, we might have some bumps along the road especially if people continue to talk about a recession. But, I do believe there will be a shift." Ellens said.
https://www.expansion.com/expansion-empleo/desarrollo-de-carrera/2022/09/02/6310ac3ee5fdead80c8b457e.htmlSaludos.
https://abc7chicago.com/what-is-quiet-quitting-tiktok-video-covid-illinois-social-media/12194743/CitarWhat is quiet quitting? TikTok trend gets people talking about work ethic, setting boundaries
What is quiet quitting? TikTok trend gets people talking about work ethic, setting boundaries
[...] No va a ser agradable.
Cita de: Derby en Septiembre 04, 2022, 19:38:09 pmhttps://abc7chicago.com/what-is-quiet-quitting-tiktok-video-covid-illinois-social-media/12194743/CitarWhat is quiet quitting? TikTok trend gets people talking about work ethic, setting boundariesAntes lo digo... Gracias Derby.El quiet quitting como tal no existe. Es el nombre que se han inventado los juntaletras, los empresarios, el departamento de recursos humanos, etc, para otra cosa.El personal ha dejado de ser numeroso, y ahora que puede, está dejando de matarse por la empresa. El número de empleados es lo único que ha cambiado recientemente. Lo demás, saber que no vas a heredar la empresa, saber que estás regalando horas a la empresa a cambio de que no te despidan -y puede que ni así-, que no tienes más progresión que la que busques tú, que tienes ganas de mandarlo todo ATPC, que así quiebre la empresa y se arruine el empresario... Todo esto, las ganas de hacer la peineta, estaban ahí desde hace muchos años.Solo que ahora se empieza a poder hacerla.Y la rama del wokismo que habla del salario emocional, soft skills, y demás palabros de vendedor de crecepelo, se queda perpleja porque el currito empieza a pedir cosas como un salario que le permita algo más que subsistir, un horario que le permita tener vida entre semana, no aguantar a jefes capullos, sentir que su trabajo vale para algo...Son cuatro décadas de malos hábitos desde los 80, el choque va a ser terrorífico. Ya lo está siendo y sólo hemos empezado. Pero, insisto, esto no va a ser un camino de rosas para el currito. Quedan muchos años por delante de aguantar ideas equivocadas sobre gestión de la empresa, y eso en el mejor de los casos. En el peor resentimiento y odio.
Pero que cosas tiene ustec, preferir el vil metal y las ventajas tangibles al salario emocional... Se ha ganado el certificado de opresor heteropatriarcal oficial, con mención honorífica, señor mío.EDIT: Y se me olvidaba, opresor turbocapitalista heteropatriarcal (NPI de lo que significa realmente, pero parece que mola).
Cita de: Benzino Napaloni en Septiembre 04, 2022, 19:46:15 pm[...] No va a ser agradable.Vaya que no... Nos vamos a partir la caja... :Montero exige formar a policías y militares en «nuevas masculinidades» y «evaluar el nivel de machismo»Montero prepara una campaña sobre «nuevas masculinidades» y «el papel de los hombres en el feminismo»https://okdiario.com/espana/montero-exige-formar-policias-militares-nuevas-masculinidades-evaluar-nivel-machismo-9606390