Pemimpin Majoriti Senat, Harry Reid, seorang Demokrat, mengatakan Selasa mempunyai potensi untuk menjadi “hari cerah” dan membawa tenang kembali ke pasaran global.
Plan B: Central banks getting ready for financial Armageddon
If the US debt-ceiling debate goes past the eleventh hour, and the default of the world’s largest economy becomes a reality, leading central banks around the world are gearing up to minimize losses and keep the world economy functioning.
If US lawmakers don’t reach a budget consensus and raise the debt ceiling by Thursday October 17, the US will become the first Western power to default since Nazi Germany in 1933, and will send markets into uncharted territory.
The rest of the world is bracing itself for what would happen if the bill is rejected, and the US inches closer to defaulting on its debts, which are largely foreign- held in the form of US Treasury Bonds.
Central banks have begun preparing for the worst-case scenario if US does fault, which would result in a serious devaluation of Treasury bonds, delayed payments, and a more large-scale version of the current government shutdown.
“Because in the past it’s always been sorted out is absolutely not a reason to fail to do the contingency planning,” Jon Cunliffe, who will become the Bank of England’s deputy governor for financial stability in November, told UK lawmakers.
“I would expect the Bank of England to be planning for it [US default]. I’d expect private-sector actors to be doing that, and in other countries as well,” said Cunliffe, who acknowledged a default as “the main risk to the [global] financial system”.
The European Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) have struck a deal that moves both banks farther from the dollar orbit. The two banks agreed to ‘swap’ $56 billion worth of yuan for $60.8 billion worth of euros.
Many central banks have reserves in the form of Sovereign Wealth Funds, which are also at risk if the US defaults, as many of the assets are held in dollars. These investment vehicles could be crippled by a default. China’s is estimated at more than $1.3 trillion - the world’s largest.
A historic shift
Neil Mackinnon, a former UK Treasury official, told RT the US default tango marks a shift in the global economic paradigm, from West to East.
If the US doesn’t act soon, “the dollar will decline and its importance will move to a multi-polar currency system and other currencies will take on board more importance,” said Mackinnon.
Over the weekend, economic leaders from around the world met in Washington DC at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting. The fund’s managing director, Christine LaGarde, issued a harsh warning the global financial system could enter a recession if the US misses its debt deadline.
The US Senate said they will announce a deal to end the shutdown and extend the debt ceiling on Tuesday, which will pass through to the House, where it will face Obama’s hard-nosed Republican opponents who want to cut funding of the Affordable Care Act.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said Tuesday has the potential to be a “bright day” and bring calm back to the global markets.
Membeli masa: perjanjian
bajet Amerika Syarikat
menangguhkan KIAMAT kewangan . . .
Presiden
Obama dan Kongres telah ditandatangani pada melanjutkan hutang siling sehingga
Februari. Undang-undang baru hanya sementara menyelesaikan pertikaian bajet Amerika
Syarikat, mengemis soalan jika Amerika pernah akan mengehadkan pinjaman itu.
Lanjutan
perjanjian akan dibuka semula kerajaan selepas 16 hari penutupan (shutdown)
separa dan perbelanjaan dana melalui 15 Januari manakala melanjutkan siling
hutang (debt ceiling) $16.7 trillion hingga 7 Februari. Tarikh akhir
utama seterusnya adalah 13 Disember tarikh sasaran untuk rundingan bajet.
{Screenshot rang undang-undang]
Buying time: US budget
deal postpones financial Doomsday
President
Obama and Congress have signed off on extending the debt ceiling through to
February. The new legislation only temporarily solves the US budget dispute,
begging the question if America will ever limit its borrowing.
The
extension deal will reopen the government after 16 days of partial shutdown
and fund spending through January 15 while extending the $16.7 trillion debt
ceiling through to February 7. The next major deadline is the December 13
target date for budget negotiations. {Screenshot of bill]
Kenyataan
oleh Setiausaha Akhbar Rumah Putih whitehouse.gov (Statement by the White House Press Secretary
whitehouse.gov – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Dalam
masa 3 bulan, dasar Amerika Syarikat akan sekali lagi bangkit bajet dan had
hutang, yang dipanggiljutawan Warren Buffett “Senjata politik pemusnah
besar-besaran” dalam temu bual dengan CNBC, berkata ia tidak boleh digunakan
oleh ahli-ahli politik untuk menyelesaikan pertikaian bajet, kerana ia membawa
kemudaratan kewangan sebenar.
Walaupun
dasar Amerika Syarikat telah tidak dinyatakan had pinjaman yang baru, Pusat
Dasar Bipartisan pemikir dianggarkan had hutang perlu dibangkitkan oleh satu
lagi $1.1 trillion untuk membantu Washington meliputi tanggungjawabnya sehingga
Disember 2014.
Anggaran 'Standard & Poor' penutupan kos ekonomi Amerika Syarikat $ 24 bilion, atau $1.5
billion setiap hari, agensi penarafan itu berkata pada hari Rabu. Agensi itu
juga percaya penutupan akan Tiub KDNK suku keempat sebanyak 0.6% peratus.
Walaupun
White House dan penggubal undang-undang hampir dielakkan lalai hutang teknikal
kali ini, penyelesaian yang hanya sementara.
Wall
Street bergembira selepas berita memecahkan Senat mencapai perjanjian untuk
mengelakkan lalai itu, Purata Perindustrian Dow Jones melonjak 200 mata. Pada
penutup York Exchange, Dow Jones naik 1.36% peratus hampir mencapai rekod, 500
S & P meningkat 1.38% peratus, dan NASDAQ Komposit melonjak 1.20% peratus.
Tingkat
Asia bertemu berita dengan semangat perpecahan, tetapi sentimen pasaran umum
adalah tinggi di dalam berita ekonomi terbesar di DUNIA itu tidak akan
mengalami lalai hutang berdaulat.
“Tidak
akan kebangkitan semula dalam pasaran global sehingga kita ke pusingan
seterusnya perbincangan pada bulan Februari tahun depan,” Malcolm Coates, rakan
kongsi di Deloitte CIS, telah menulis dalam nota kepada RT.
“Bolehkah
Amerika Syarikat mampu untuk lalai?
Jawapannya adalah tidak membanggakan.
Terdapat apa-apa untuk mendapat manfaat daripada lalai,” Coates memberitahu RT.
Langit jatuh !
“Pemulihan
pendek untuk ahli-ahli politik untuk berunding beberapa jenis perjanjian yang
berpanjangan mungkin akan berat kepada keyakinan pengguna,” S & P menulis.
Kebuntuan
politik di Washington telah mendorong pengguna untuk merendahkan pandangan
mereka daripada ekonomi Amerika, dan memukul 1 minggu ketara penurunan sejak
keruntuhan Lehman Brothers.
“Jika
orang yang takut bahawa nyerempet bahaya dasar kerajaan akan timbul kembali
lagi, dan dengan itu risiko penutupan lain atau lebih teruk lagi, mereka akan
kekal takut untuk membuka buku cek mereka. Itu titik kepada satu lagi musim
cuti bohong,” kata agensi itu dalam laporan mereka.
Apabila
Kongres menghampiri ‘tebing fiskal’ pada musim panas tahun 2011, keyakinan
pengguna yang jatuh ke paras terendah dalam 31 tahun pada bulan Ogos.
Keindahan hutang adalah pembayaran
Datang
sangat dekat dengan tidak membayar hutang mereka dan saat terakhir peningkatan
had bukan amalan baru di Washington. Siling hutang Amerika Syarikat telah di
tempat selama hampir satu abad, dan dasar negara sentiasa dibangkitkan kuasa
perbelanjaan mereka, hanya meminjam wang dan menulis ‘IOU’ besar kepada rakyat
Amerika .
Hutang
siling Amerika, atau jumlah hutang kerajaan boleh memegang, telah meningkat 79
kali sejak tahun 1960, di bawah kedua-dua pentadbiran Presiden Demokratik dan
Republikan. Hutang terkumpul ekonomi terbesar di DUNIA kini $16.7 trillion, dan
disebarkan melalui hutang tempatan dan asing.
“Tiada
siapa yang pernah yang mendalam dalam hutang dan mereka akan lebih tinggi dan
lebih tinggi,” kata Jim Rogers, pengerusi yang berpangkalan di Singapura Rogers
Holdings, memberitahu RT.
In
three months’ time, US policymakers will again rehash the budget and the debt
limit, which billionaire Warren Buffett called a “political weapon of mass
destruction” in an interview with CNBC, saying it shouldn’t be used by
politicians to settle budget disputes, as it brings real financial harm.
Although
US policymakers haven’t specified the new borrowing limit, the Bipartisan
Policy Centre think tank estimated the debt limit should be raised by another
$1.1 trillion to help Washington cover its obligations through to December
2014.
Standard
& Poor's estimates the shutdown cost the US economy $24 billion, or $1.5
billion per day, the rating agency said on Wednesday. The agency also believes
the shutdown will pare fourth quarter GDP by 0.6 percent.
Even
though the White House and lawmakers nearly avoided a technical debt default
this time around, the solution is only temporary.
Wall
Street rejoiced after news broke the Senate reached a deal to avert a default,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 200 points. At the close of the New
York Exchange, the Dow Jones climbed 1.36 percent nearly reaching a record, the
S&P 500 increased 1.38 percent, and the NASDAQ Composite jumped 1.20
percent.
Asian
floors met the news with split enthusiasm, but general market sentiment was
high on news the world’s largest economy wouldn’t experience a sovereign debt
default.
"There
will be resurgence in global markets until we come to the next round of
discussions in February next year,” Malcolm Coates, a partner at Deloitte CIS,
wrote in a note to RT.
“Can
the US afford to default? The answer is a resounding no. There is nothing to
gain from a default,” Coates told RT.
The Sky is falling!
“The
short turnaround for politicians to negotiate some sort of lasting deal will
likely weigh on consumer confidence,” S&P wrote.
The
political stalemate in Washington has already prompted consumers to devalue
their outlook of the American economy, and hit its sharpest one-week drop since
the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
“If
people are afraid that the government policy brinkmanship will resurface again,
and with it the risk of another shutdown or worse, they'll remain afraid to
open up their check books. That points to another Humbug holiday season,” the
agency said in their report.
When
Congress neared the ‘fiscal cliff’ in the summer of 2011, consumer confidence
fell to a 31-year low in August.
The beauty of the debt is its payment
Coming
very close to defaulting on their debt and a last minute limit increase isn’t a
new practice in Washington. The US debt ceiling has been in place for nearly a
century, and the country’s policymakers have always raised their spending
powers, simply borrowing money and writing a big ‘IOU’ to the American people.
America’s
debt ceiling, or the amount of debt the government can hold, has been increased
79 times since 1960, under both Democratic and Republican Presidential
administrations. The outstanding debt of the world’s largest economy is
currently $16.7 trillion, and is spread through domestic and foreign debt.
“Nobody’s
ever been this deep in debt and its going higher and higher,” said Jim Rogers,
chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holdings, told RT.
Sumber
Data dari Jabatan Lembaga Rizab Perbendaharaan/Persekutuan (Source Data from
the Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board – think IN pictures
@1WRLDCommunity)
Pelabur
dan bank-bank pusat tidak harus terus ‘fixating’ pada politik , tetapi bahaya
yang semakin meningkat hutang itu sendiri, Martin W. Hennecke, Ketua Ekonomi di
Henley Group Ltd, memberitahu RT.
“. .
. Masalah sebenar bukan hutang siling, masalahnya ialah hutang. Dan isu sebenarnya,
dari sudut pandangan kita, pelabur dan bank-bank pusat perlu melihat adalah
bahaya ia berkembang dan kini, baru-baru ini, ia ditambah bersama-sama dengan
isu kenaikan kadar faedah,” kata Henley Group.
Kenaikan
kadar faedah akan menjadi penting untuk dilihat kerana jika Perbendaharaan
meningkat, membayar hutang akan menjadi lebih mahal untuk Amerika Syarikat.
“Sebarang
peningkatan selanjutnya dalam kadar faedah, secara amnya dan di Perbendaharaan,
akan menghantar Amerika Syarikat ke lalai, bukan sahaja oleh perbezaan pendapat,
hanya kerana mereka kehabisan wang,” kata Hennecke.
Peperangan
bajet di Washington memberi pelabur petunjuk bahawa pembuat dasar mungkin akan
melambatkan tirus bon program membeli $85 billion bulanan mereka, yang dikenali
sebagai pelonggaran kuantitatif. Fed mengejutkan pasaran pada 18 September
apabila mereka memutuskan untuk menahan diri daripada mengurangkan pembelian
bon.
“Saya
fikir mereka lebih cenderung untuk terus melonggarkan dasar. Mungkin mereka
akan memperluaskan pelonggaran kuantitatif mereka daripada tirus, kerana tirus
serta-merta akan menyebabkan kadar faedah naik,” Martin W. Hennecke, Ketua
Ekonomi di Henley Group Ltd , memberitahu RT.
Investors
and central banks shouldn’t continue fixating on the politics, but on the
growing danger of the debt itself, Martin W. Hennecke, chief economist at
Henley Group Ltd, told RT.
“. .
. the real problem is not a debt ceiling, the problem is a debt. And a real
issue, from our point of view, the investors and the central banks should be
looking at is the danger of it growing and now, more recently, it’s coupled
together with the issue of rising interest rates,” Henley Group said.
Rising
interest rates will be important to watch because if Treasuries rise, paying
off debt will be more expensive for the US.
“Any
further increase in the interest rates, generally and on Treasuries, would send
the United States into default, not just by disagreement, just because they run
out of money,” Hennecke said.
The
budget wars in Washington give investors a hint that policy makers will likely
delay tapering their $85 billion-per-month bond purchasing program, known as
quantitative easing. The Fed surprised markets on September 18 when they
decided to refrain from reducing bond purchases.
“I
think they are more likely to continue easing policies. Maybe they will expand
their quantitative easing rather than tapering, because tapering would immediately
cause the interest rates to go up,” Martin W. Hennecke, chief economist at
Henley Group Ltd, told RT.