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It even organized a “national team” of 21 large securities companies, led by a government-controlled financial corporation, to purchase shares to buttress the Shanghai Composite Index.
Unfortunately, a big part of these banks’ profits stems from trading securities – exactly the sort of high-risk activity that got them into trouble in the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis.
In fact, although GDP growth remains sluggish and unemployment is still well above the target rate, the US Federal Reserve may soon terminate its purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, effectively admitting that QE has failed and may now be counterproductive.
Even a small decrease in bond and equity prices could force investors to sell securities in order to raise cash to meet margin requirements.
Frustrated investors would then dump their US Treasury securities.
Most of the shadow banking system has disappeared, and traditional commercial banks are saddled with trillions of dollars in expected losses on loans and securities while still being seriously undercapitalized.
Not only has the bank just reported its first quarterly loss in more than a decade; it has also agreed to a tentative deal to pay a fine of $13 billion to the US government as punishment for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities.
The mortgage-backed securities that US banks succeeded in selling to the world are not comparable to European assets with similar names.
By contrast, such US securities are like a lottery ticket.
The prices of traded mortgage-backed securities have followed house prices down.
Under the ECB’s QE program, which started in March 2015 (and will likely be extended beyond its scheduled end in March 2017), eurozone members’ central banks buy private market securities for €1.74 trillion ($1.84 trillion), with more than €1.4 trillion to be used to purchase their own countries’ government debt.
In the latter case, this often results in triangular transactions, with the sellers transferring the money to Germany or the Netherlands to invest it in fixed-interest securities, companies, or company shares.
China is worried that its more than $1 trillion investment in US Treasury securities will not hold its value.
Along with roughly $700 billion in Chinese holdings of US agency debt (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), China’s total $2 trillion exposure to US government and quasi-government securities is massive by any standard.
China has recycled about 60% of these reserves back into dollar-denominated US government securities, because it wants to limit any appreciation of the renminbi against the world’s benchmark currency.
Meanwhile, in Asia, the Japanese economy’s sputtering indicators have spurred the Bank of Japan to increase its securities purchases, which likewise point to the prospect of a weaker yen.
After China and Japan, oil-exporting countries, including Russia, are the largest holders of US Treasury securities.
This is the same Weill who had lobbied to gut Glass-Steagall in order to build today’s Citigroup, which put insurance companies, securities dealers, and traditional deposit-taking banks all under one roof.
True, major commercial banks, like Citibank and Bank of America, tottered, but they were not at risk because of their securities underwriting for corporate clients or their securities-trading divisions, but because of how they (mis)handled mortgage securities.
Some commercial-banking activities are closer to securities trading.
No big bank was at risk from trading securities then, but the big banks’ investment-banking affiliates were not making money trading and underwriting securities during the Depression, so the banks were willing to surrender that part of their business.
Foreigners currently own about 30% of all US Treasury securities, with the latest official data putting Chinese ownership at $1.15 trillion in June 2017 – fully 19% of total foreign holdings and slightly higher than Japan’s $1.09 trillion.
If Europe had the same rules as the United States, where the Federal Reserve’s regional banks have to pay the Fed for any special money creation with securities collateralized in gold, they would not create this much supplementary money, and capital flight would be limited.
The first option is the American way, which also demands that the buyers bear the risks inherent in public or private securities.
Because all the member states provide one another with free credit guarantees, interest rates for government securities can no longer differ in accordance with creditworthiness or likelihood of repayment.
Their absence makes it difficult to invest too large amounts of money in Russian securities.
German banks might be able to issue securities at very low rates, but these rates are still higher than what they earn on their ECB deposits.
In Hungary, non-residents hold 20% of government securities and account for 70% of the equity market's capitalization.
They would like to carve up the megabanks and especially to separate retail banking from securities trading, or what is often now called “casino banking.”
The promise to keep the overnight interest rate low for an extended period was intended to persuade investors that they could achieve higher returns only by buying long-term securities, which would drive up these securities’ prices and drive down their yields.
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