The Death of The PIIGS Illustrated
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/07/2012
Yesterday we pointed to the fundamental reason for Europe’s angst – that of dramatic imbalance across nations finances. Today we look at the implications of the growing concerns at sustainability of the Euro-area itself. Deposits are fleeing the PIIGS at ever faster rates, growth remains a dream as PMIs for most of the PIIGS trend towards (or are at) record lows, and despite all the liquidity provision of the two LTROs, credit extension to the real economy dropped once again. The Greek PSI remains front-and-center from a headline perspective but yesterday’s dismal Euro macro data combined with the reality of these three factors appears to be increasingly repriced into sovereign credit spreads as CDS drag manipulated bonds wider in the last week.
1. Deposit growth (or losses) remain a huge problem and as Arnaud Mares of Morgan Stanley noted, the fungibility of money across time deposits in European nations is increasingly questioned as Europe is far from a union…
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