Foreigners Holding 75 % of Greece’s Current Debt Stock

One of the main reasons why the "Smoke & Mirrors" ( excellent link via Yves Smith / NC ) Greece "Rescue" & a hidden bailout ( see the ECB U-TURN My Big Fat Greek Collateral Conversion ) has been orchestrated..... It´s still the number one goal to bail out banks & insurers ( see PIIGS Claims On European Banks: $1.5 Trillion; France Most On Hook In PIIGS Implosion & Ireland Stunned To Uncover "Truly Shocking" Information By Its Banks ).....Nobody is too small too fail....Sarcastically one can argue that in hindsight it seems the Lehman "incident" was one of the best things that could have happened to the industry......

Denke das wir hier einen der Hauptgründe für den "Smoke & Mirrors" ( fantastische Zusammenfassung via Naked Capitalism ) Rettungsversuch bzw die indirekten ( siehe die 180 Grad Drehung der EZB My Big Fat Greek Collateral Conversion ) Bailoutbemühungen sehen.... Es geht wie leider immer noch darum Banken und Versicherungen vor möglichen Schäden zu "beschützen" ( siehe PIIGS Claims On European Banks: $1.5 Trillion; France Most On Hook In PIIGS Implosion & Ireland Stunned To Uncover "Truly Shocking" Information By Its Banks )...... Keiner ist unwichtig genug um zu fallen...."Spitz" formuliert könnte man fast meinen das im Nachhinein Lehman für die Branche der bestmöglich anzunehmende Unfall gewesen ist......

The kindness of (bond market) strangers FT Alphaville

With foreigners already holding three quarters of Greece’s current debt stock, convincing them to buy even more becomes increasingly difficult. Here’s what Deutsche’s Gillian Edgeworth says:

"Euroland insists that the Greek sovereign continues to access the market if possible. The sovereign issuer will hope that foreigners remain keen buyers of bonds, though foreigners already hold 75% of the total debt stock.

In the absence of further foreign buying, local institutions will only likely be able to absorb government issuance if domestic banks continue to draw off [European Central Bank] liquidity facilities in size."

Lucky, then, that the ECB decided to revise its acceptance rules for the collateral pledged by Greek banks on Friday

Too bad for the "architects" that so far the spreads havn´t narrowed in a meaningful way.....;-)

Leicht problematisch für die Bailoutakrobaten lediglich das sich zumindest momentan die Spreads nicht wesentlich "eingeengt" haben...... ;-)

Greek debt – spreading like it’s 1999 FT Alphaville

It looks like Hellenic Republic bond spreads over German bunds are back at 1999 levels — when Greece first attempted to join the eurozone but failed because it didn’t meet the required economic criteria

No wonder Gold has been hitting a series of new ATH in € terms ...

Da verwundert es wenig das Gold seit Wochen eine Serie von neues Allzeithoch auf € Basis markiert.....