{"id":41081,"date":"2016-06-24T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41081"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:39:30","slug":"worse-than-lehman-european-bank-bloodbath-sparks-dollar-funding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41081","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Worse Than Lehman&#8221; &#8211; European Bank Bloodbath Sparks Dollar Funding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\nZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>For European banks, today is worse than Lehman with a 13%-plus collapse in the broad index<\/strong>. The major banks &#8211; like Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank &#8211; have crashed over 15% to record lows as &#8220;Lehman moments&#8221; loom. This <strong>crisis prompted massive demand for USDollars, sending basis swaps (and other funding vehicles) spiking <\/strong>which it appears is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-24\/here-comes-yellen-fed-monitoring-financial-markets-ready-provide-liquidity-swap-line\">The Fed said it was ready to provide liquidity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The broad EU banking system is collapsing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_lehman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_lehman_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Led by the majors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Raising &#8220;Lehman moment&#8221; alarms again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And sparking desperate demand for USDollars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb1_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Sterling was sold hard into the European close (down 200 pips)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb4_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As counterparty risk looms again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/23\/20160624_csdb3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-24\/here-comes-yellen-fed-monitoring-financial-markets-ready-provide-liquidity-swap-line\">Which explains why The Fed stepped up already with swap lines&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Earlier today we said that it was inevitable that the Fed would join the world&#8217;s other central bankers in providing backstops to global markets, the only question is whether it would take place before or after the open. We now have the answer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/press\/monetary\/20160624a.htm\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>The Federal Reserve is carefully monitoring developments in global financial markets, in cooperation with other central banks, following the results of the U.K. referendum on membership in the European Union. <strong>The Federal Reserve is prepared to provide dollar liquidity through its existing swap lines with central banks, as necessary, to address pressures in global funding markets, which could have adverse implications for the U.S. economy.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because free, impartial, efficient, and unmanipulated markets.\u00a0 Also we can finally stop holding our breath on those two Fed rate hikes which the FOMC anticipates in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And then Lagarde confrmed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>*LAGARDE REITERATES SUPPORT FOR C.BANK LIQUIDITY READINESS<\/strong><br \/>\n___<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-24\/worse-lehman-european-bank-bloodbath-sparks-dollar-funding-crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}