ECBs Mirage to Recovery: Last desperate gasp of "Whatever it takes"

Thursday, 22 January 2015

ECBs Mirage to Recovery: Last desperate gasp of "Whatever it takes"

Well my friends, the European Central Bank just signed it's death certificate in the form of launching a 1.14 Trillion Euro Quantitative Easing printing press with their last gasp of "We will do whatever it takes" desperation.

Below are several articles that outline some of the most important aspects of this highly questionable, barely legal,  already-proven-not-to-work move, to try and generate at least a mirage of "recovery" to shimmer in front of the uneasy public of the European Union.

While this might look like a "European problem" to the general populous of North America, this action by the ECB will have global ramifications of epic proportions.  Hell.... even some of the fine print gives quite a large peak into what's next.

I will highlight several sections that I think everyone should taken note of.

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ECB announces milestone €1.14tn ‘easy money’ program

Published time: January 22, 2015 13:43
Edited time: January 22, 2015 14:42

Reuters / Ralph Orlowski

The European Central Bank announced it will embark on a fully-fledged quantitative easing program from March, which will break down to €60 billion per month. The move is made to counter a triple-dip recession in the eurozone.
ECB President Mario Draghi's press conference is live here
“Under this expanded program, the combined monthly purchases of public and private securities will amount to €60 billion, intended to be carried out to 2016,” Draghi said Thursday. The bank will buy €1.14tn ($1.3 trillion) in government debt, a decision that will inject extra money into supply, spurring a devaluation in the currency.
After the announcement, the euro fell 1.15 percent against the dollar, to $1.14.

http://rt.com/business/225111-ecb-announces-qe-draghi/

The ECB Releases The Details Of Its Debt Monetization And Money Printing Program

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2015 10:42 -0500

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Those curious to learn why Greece is the only country excluded form the ECB' QE (for now) as the soon to be former Greek PM Samaras said moments ago...

• GREEK PM SAMARAS SAYS WITHOUT CLOSING THE CURRENT REVIEW, GREECE WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM ECB BOND-BUY PROGRAMME

... will not find any additional information in the ECB's supplement on its asset purchase program. Neither will they learn why something that is in effect monetary financing, and is prohibited by Article 123, is not monetary financing. However, they will learn that the proceeds from the ECB's money printing can be used "to buy other assets and extend credit to the real economy." The ECB adds that "In both cases, this contributes to an easing of financial conditions." Actually the only thing it will contribute to is making the world's billionaires into the world's trillionaires....

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-22/ecb-releases-details-its-debt-monetization-and-money-printing-program

Here Are The Negatives In Today's ECB QE Announcement

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2015 12:23 -0500

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Everyone knows the positives, or rather positive, even if nobody at the ECB is willing to come out and say it: the ECB's QE - whose structural details were laid out previously - will boost stock prices, and... that's it. Who benefits as a result of this has now become a socioeconomic and philosophical discussion.
So here, courtesy of ADMISI's Marc Ostwald, are the negatives:

• Risk sharing is very limited, with national central banks taking 80% of the risk on sovereign bond purchases, and rather un-reassuring was Draghi's comment that "most national central banks have adequate buffers to absorb a negative event" - most being how many.
• Not good news for Greece, while it and Cyprus will be eligible for purchases of govt under a 'waiver' for (bail-out) 'programme countries', the ECB already has a very high volume of Greek bonds on it balance sheet from the SMP programme, and given a limit on total holdings for each sovereign issuer, it will not be eligible for purchases until it redeems debt in July asnd August. It should be added that other Italy and Spain and other bail-out countries will implicitly also have a lower available volume of total purchases, until SMP holdings are redeemed.
• BUT perhaps the key aspect relates to the limits on the 25% limit on purchases of a single issue, which ensures that the ECB adheres to the ECJ's ruling about the ECB ensuring that is does not interfere with "price formation". So here's the key aspect, there are some $12.0 Trln of FX reserves in the world, of which roughly a quarter are held in Euros. Operating on the traditional metric that roughly half of those will be invested in Govt Bills and Bonds, this means that FX reserve managers will have to be involved in the process of establishing prices for whatever is purchased under the Govt bond QE programme. Eminently anything that is sold by central banks will not find its way into the private financial sector, therefore that EUR 60 Bln figure may often overstate what is being injected into the market.
• Last but not least, the expanded programme does not start until March 15, so "Mr Market" now has a very long waiting period to sit on holdings of EUR debt before selling to the ECB, and with plenty of event risk in the world, starting with the Greek election, and to mention the prospect of an imminent Ukrainian default. Sort this under an uncomfortably long period before the QE 'party' gets started.
  
  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-22/here-are-negatives-todays-ecb-qe-announcement

ECB To Print Trillion Euros – Gold Could Surge 40% In 15 Minutes Against Euro, Dollar

By GoldCore Research January 22, 2015

Mario Draghi is preparing to unveil QE today as the ECB looks certain to announce it’s much anticipated quantitative easing (QE) program. The move to print up to €1 trillion euros in the coming months appears to be a fait accompli although it will occur against a backdrop of strong German resistance and many concerns.


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