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Central Bank Balance Sheets: What Will They Look Like in 2016-2017?

MishTalk

Central Bank Policy Rates Current Rates Bank of England: 0.50% Bank of Japan: 0.10% Fed: 0.00%-0.25% (currently 0.14%) ECB: 0.05% Central Bank Balance Sheets Three Questions Other than asset bubbles, what do we have to show for this? When do asset sheet balances approaching 100% of GDP matter?

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ECB's Targeted Lending Spree Starts Out As Flop; Modern Monetary Insanity

MishTalk

The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet. If they miss the targets, they must pay the funds back in 2016.

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Two Ways for Blues to Prepare for Industry Consolidation

BCG

Article Thursday, April 14, 2016. These mergers will produce tough competitors with diversified portfolios, sturdy balance sheets, greater scale, and advanced capabilities, including consumer engagement, provider collaboration and informatics, population management, and digital channels.

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European Banks Dump Massive Amounts of Subordinated Debt on Investors

MishTalk

The figures follow a deal agreed by European regulators earlier this month that will bring in so-called bail-in rules for senior bondholders from 2016, two years earlier than envisaged by finance ministers in their common position agreed in June. Also consider "stress tests".

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ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?

MishTalk

The newly decided measures, together with the targeted longer-term refinancing operations which will be conducted in two weeks, will have a sizeable impact on our balance sheet. The projections for 2015 and 2016 have remained unchanged. in 2014, 1.1% in 2015 and 1.4%

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.

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Steen Jakobsen: US Credit Cycle Peaked, Zero Growth Coming to Europe, Gold 1425 by Year End

MishTalk

Headlines for Next 6-7 Months US, German and EU core government bonds will be 100 basis points higher by and in Q4 before making final new low in H1 2016. Central Bank Balance Sheets Excuse me? Hard even to see change in ECB balance sheet. Via email, the rest of what follows is a guest post from Steen Jakobsen.