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Monday, June 25

25th Jun - US Open: Bad being priced in

Spain finally made the official request for help. Otherwise, all eyes are on the EU summit, and listening to what the leaders (=Merkel) have to say before the event. Also, given the big slowdown the US unemployment figures are of interest, as another QE depends on bad data. Markets looking softer, but at the moment just catching up to "bad macro & no QE".

 













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Frontrunning – ZH
The Lunch Wrap – FT
EM New York headlines – FT
Overnight summary – Bank of America / ZH
Today’s front pages – presseurop
Daily press summary – Open Europe
  New briefing: Funding needs of Spanish banks could top €110 billion

Morning MarketBeat: Stakes Increasing for EU Summit – WSJ
Broker Note Briefing – WSJ
Morning Take-Out – NYT
Dollar Bounces Back, Pessimism Persists in EuropeMarc to Market
The T Report – TF Market Advisors
  Secondary Market Purchases are NOT the Answer for Europe

Pre-market Commentary – Marketwatch
Pre-Market Trading – CNNMoney          
Pre-Market – NASDAQ
US Equity Preview – Bloomberg
Earnings & Events – The Street
MarketCurrents – Seeking Alpha

Debt crisis: live – The Telegraph
The Euro Crisis Blog – WSJ
Tracking Europe’s Debt Crisis – NYT
FX Options Analytics – Saxo Bank
European 10yr Yields and Spreads – MTS indices

EURO CRISIS
Saving Private Euro: What if Spain falls?voxeu.org
It is not just the crisis that is intensifying; so too is the debate on the potential solutions. This column proposes what to do if Spain is next to fail.

Interview: 'We Certainly Don't Want to Divide Europe'Spiegel
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble believes that only further EU integration can save the euro. SPIEGEL spoke with him about how the currency can be strengthened, the hurdles presented by Germany's constitution and what the 27-member club might look like in five years.

Commerzbank’s Dixon Likens European Summit to TitanicBB (mp3)

Contagion in Europe: Evidence from the sovereign debt crisisvoxeu.org
If Greece defaults, what about Spain, what about the rest of the Eurozone, and what about the rest of Europe? “Contagion” has become a buzzword in international economics. This column asks whether markets are responding irrationally to the nightmare scenario or finally waking up to reality.

Key Events In The Coming Week And A Preview Of European SummitZH
Goldman Sachs letter

Europe takes a first step Macro Business
The latest EU summit will be held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday and once again it is a ‘summit to end all summits’

Germany, Greece and the Marshall Plan, another riposteFree exchange / The Economist

Fitch junks Cyprusalphaville / FT

EURO CRISIS: SPAIN
Spain Asks for Bank RescueTIME

Spain Formally Comes A BeggingZH

Scramble For Spanish 'Bail-In' Trade Sends Spanish Bank CDS Soaring – ZH

Moody's To Junk Spanish Banking System In HoursZH

Testing for forebearancealphaville / FT
Spanish bank write-downs on residential mortgage loans, eh.

BIS ANNUAL REPORT
Central bank existential crisis confirmedalphaville / FT
There is, it appears, a marked admission that central banks may be losing control.

When scientists become hedge fund managersalphaville / FT
an actual estimate of the cost to society of scientists becoming hedge fund managers. (from the BIS report

À propos those BIS gold swapsalphaville / FT

OTHER
U.S. Banks Aren’t Nearly Ready for Coming European CrisisView / BB
Simon Johnson’s piece

Simon Johnson: JP Morgan at Risk if Euro Breaks Upnaked capitalism
Comments the above

Enter, the Blindside RecessionHussman Funds

A Long Wait to The Next FOMC MeetingTim Duy’s Fed Watch
The fundamental problem is that the Fed has failed to communicate the trigger point for additional policy.  CR reads the tea leaves and concludes the bar is reasonably low; Bullard leaves the meeting thinking the bar is high.  The reality is likely somewhere in between.  I tend to think QE in August requires some pretty clear evidence that the labor market is moving in the wrong direction, and I am hesitant to think we will get enough such evident before then.  The next employment report and the weekly initial claims reports will be critical.

Is There a Limit on Central Bank's Ability to Inflate?Mish’s
In a credit-based economy such as the US and Europe, attitudes are the key. The Fed can print at will, but it cannot make consumers spend or businesses expand or hire. The Fed is desperately (and foolishly) trying to get consumers to lever up once again, however attitudes of consumers have changed.

More constructive on stocksHumble Student
I am not turning bullish, but neutral on the market's near-term outlook for the following reasons: 1) Market psychology, 2) Signs of turnaround in China and Europe, 3) My institutional fund flows model has turned positive.

Commodities Forecast (Update)Danske Bank (pdf)
Weak macroeconomic backdrop weighs on prices

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