Интересные акции (vol.6)
#1321
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 11:33
Commentary by Jonathan Weil
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The fleecing knows no end.
Take a look at GM's 8.375 percent bond due in July 2033, and feast your eyes on the new world of American capitalism. Yesterday's price, at about 15 cents on the dollar, tells you the market believes GM will last long enough to make a little less than two years' worth of interest payments.
Were it not for the chance of a government bailout, in lieu of an imminent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the bonds would trade for much less. And there lies the truth about what America's capital markets have become: a rigged game.
You can see it all over. Nobody who knows anything about General Electric Co. actually believes it's a AAA credit. And yet the raters at Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's continue to give GE their highest mark. Meanwhile, the company just landed government insurance for as much as $139 billion of debt for its lending arm, GE Capital Corp., which also is rated AAA. If GE were really that strong, it wouldn't need the help.
At American International Group Inc., the $150 billion ward of the Treasury Department, management had the audacity to claim in the company's latest quarterly report that it ``believes it will have adequate liquidity to finance and operate AIG's businesses.'' In other words, AIG's executives are counting on a blank check from the government, should the money run out again.
If you had considered betting against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this summer -- that is, when the Securities and Exchange Commission wasn't banning short sales of their stocks -- the biggest risk wasn't that they would surprise investors by turning in a good quarter. It was that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson or Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would show up before Congress to talk up their stocks and squeeze the shorts.
Paulson's Sting
Your worry is the same if you're thinking of shorting Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or Citigroup Inc. All Paulson might have to do to separate you from your money is call a press conference. And if you bought toxic mortgage bonds, just before Paulson canceled Treasury's purchases of troubled mortgage-related assets, you've felt his sting already.
When the government let Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. die, there at least was the sense, for a day or so, that somebody very large wasn't too big to fail. Today we understand better: The government is picking winners and losers. Instead of just a couple giant government-sponsored enterprises, now we have dozens.
With so many beggars in Zegna suits lobbying for handouts, it's easy to see why lots of Americans are aghast at what our country has become.
Many of the companies receiving bailout treasure will get washed out to sea in the end. When we look back on the money showered upon them, whether to fund banker bonuses or preserve Michigan's share of the Electoral College, we will wish we had saved it, if for no other reason than to preserve the Treasury's own AAA-credit rating.
Market Understanding
Think back to the price of that GM bond. It doesn't imply that a government bailout would be enough to let the automaker continue as a going concern until its bonds mature. What the market understands is that GM will collapse long before then, no matter how much taxpayer money it gets now.
In Congress, lawmakers may be fancying a $25 billion bailout for the auto industry. Yet even if they earmarked all that money just for GM, which has $59 billion more liabilities than assets, it wouldn't make the company solvent.
Advance Knowledge
So, for the time being, the clearest path to making money in the public markets is to know in advance what the government plans to do next with which companies, and when -- and then trade on it. Let there be no doubt: Plenty of people with access to such inside information are enriching themselves this way now. My guess is none of them is named Mark Cuban, and that the Securities and Exchange Commission will never sue any of them.
It's long been cliche to say the securities markets are a giant casino. This notion hasn't been explored enough. Aside from the free drinks, the only reason a rational person would play a slot machine in Las Vegas, aware that the house controls the outcome, is because of the mindless entertainment it promises. For ordinary folks with money to burn, this might be the last, best reason to invest in the U.S. capital markets, too.
Good luck.
(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
To contact the writer of this column: Jonathan Weil in New York at jweil6@bloomberg.net
#1322
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 15:16
p.s. что-то сегодня совсем перестали писать в этой теме ...
#1323
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 15:25
Сегодня по фин. сектору думаю либо down-боковик, либо просто down
P.S. В смысле в США
Сообщение отредактировал Chuvak: 24 November 2008 - 15:26
#1324
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 19:17
"Разведка Добыча "КазМунайГаз" приступает к обратному выкупу своих ценных бумаг с KASE и LSE
Астана. 24 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС-КАЗАХСТАН - АО "Разведка Добыча "КазМунайГаз" (РД КМГ, нефтедобывающая "дочка" нефтегазовой нацкомпании Казахстана "КазМунайГаз") с понедельника приступает к реализации программы обратного выкупа своих акций, сообщили агентству "Интерфакс-Казахстан" в компании.
никак не пойму для чего об этом постоянно трубить во всеуслышанье?
что тут непонятного? все ясно, как апельсин.
#1325
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 19:22
Сегодня по фин. сектору думаю либо down-боковик, либо просто down
P.S. В смысле в США
я смотрю, чувак, ты активно занялся фин-предсказаниями на день вперед. И не бузуспешно. Что такое даунбоковик?
зы. Где празднуете?
#1326
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 19:27
м-да..., даже на памяти престарелого буфета никогда такого небыло. интересно он все еще верен своим принципам?
#1327
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 20:36
или все на самом деле под маской ожидания бычего рынка скрывали медвежие ожидания?
тех кто в бумагах поздравляю с ростом!
правда не буду загадывать надолго он, но все же декабрь - начало января закончится выше чем сегодняшние уровни.
#1329
Отправлено 24 November 2008 - 22:11
напоминает оттепель. Только вверх и только вперед!!!!
#1332
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 09:49
Да видать банкротсво сити было не на руку новой администрации...
Но тогда должен быть бурный рост. И если сегодня 900 возьмут пендосы, то дно прошли, а если мишки 800 пробъют, то дно еще впереди...
Сообщение отредактировал RBS: 25 November 2008 - 09:51
#1333
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 10:13
900..., 800...., как просто все у вас. А если в коридоре останется?
#1334
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 10:24
p.s.
а ведь была мысля купить Сити в пятницу ... но опять таки местные форумчани так усердно говорили что его цена - 0$ ... что не рискнул ... а тут +58% ... много лосей за этот интересный год отбил бы ...
тут такая мысля ... все ждали что сити обанкротят и после этого (как бывало м ранее) все поймут что это самое плохое и пойдет рост, но его не обонкротили ... и это тоже воспринимается как разворот и расти должны с большим ускорением.
#1335
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 10:34
#1337
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 12:05
#1338
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 12:09
переключился на ганжубас что характерно ))
http://www.portfolio...hdeFarewell.pdf
#1340
Отправлено 25 November 2008 - 12:11
ждите сегодня 9900-10000 на Касе, ралли продолжается.
Кстати, РД обещали опубликовывать результаты байбэка на ежедневной основе, хиде они, скоро Ландон откроется.



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