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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Real Man who wrote (2786)	12/1/2007 7:39:13 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 71474

Gentle Bens explanation for higher financing and loan rates to the citizenry while offering lower fed funds rates to banks should be interesting. Watching the dollar soar as our economy blossoms is absolutely riveting. Has HSBC come clean? It seems like they did.

To: Real Man who wrote (2786)	12/1/2007 10:03:25 PM
From: Paul Kern	Respond to of 71474

Then the new credit crisis wave will start in the beginning of 2008 After the bonus checks have been cut and cashed.

To: Real Man who wrote (2786)	12/2/2007 3:11:23 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71474

Swiss Franc the next to go down, SNB does not hike rate, Credit Suisse sees Swiss CPI remaining under 2 pct, SNB to pause rate hikes Sun, Dec 2 2007, 19:33 GMT afxnews.com ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Credit Suisse expects 2008 inflation in Switzerland to remain below 2 pct, despite the sharp rise seen in November, head of fixed income/credit research Nannette Hechler said. "For 2008 we forecast an inflation (rate) that remains in line with pricing stability as defined by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). Credit Suisse thus does not expect a sustained inflation rate of above 2 pct...," Hechler said in an interview with Swiss biweekly Finanz und Wirtschaft. On Friday, the Swiss Federal Statistics Office said that Swiss consumer prices rose 1.8 pct year-on-year in November, the sharpest increase since May 2001. Hechler also said she expects the SNB to leave interest rates unchanged on Dec 13. "The insecurities regarding the impact of financial market turbulence on the real economy are not yet over. We therefore can envisage the SNB to pause its rate-hike cycle, and postpone further hikes (...) to 2008," she said. johanna.treeck@thomson.com jmt/jlw COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.

To: Real Man who wrote (2786)	12/2/2007 4:24:27 PM
From: stockycd	Respond to of 71474

Well, the news will have to start being very bad. As more and more comes out, news is dilutive of itself. People get numb. I'll feel better when at least part of the yield curve is above Fed Funds. cd

To: Real Man who wrote (2786)	12/2/2007 5:43:19 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 71474

Despite some correction in the currencies, and those can be severe, I am not sure that we have seen it all. Why should Bernanke turn off the $$$ printing press right now? FWIW Euro money markets are very tight and the bank treasurers trade 3M Euros at 4.80, well ahead of the official rates. British, Swiss and other tame inflation rhetoric is made to calm people and, at the same time used to take off some pressure from the dollar and prick overoptimistic currency traders a little. Long term this effect is going away. If those had any merit we would heed directly into a stagflation/recession. Either way... <it is made to keep up the otherwise sagging stock markets. By any measure this is quite an accomplishment, so far>