betekenis van het woord CONTINUES

Gold price rally is more stable compared to silver - Commerzbank

Silver’s rally CONTINUES to heat up with prices trading above $19 an ounce, its highest level in three years, but one analyst isn’t convinced investors have the same conviction compared to gold.

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Bitcoin: iedereen is aan het hodlen

Daar lijkt het in ieder geval op. Het aantal betalingen met BTC in de eerste helft van 2019 ligt wel bijzonder laag. Daaruit kunnen we de conclusie trekken dat bezitters van bitcoin hodlen, hun BTC vasthouden. Misschien willen ze niet ooit moeten bekennen: in 2019 kocht ik 1000 pizzza’s voor 1 BTC. Weet je wel, toen ik heel het dorp uitnodigde op dat feest toen? Om zich vervolgens de haren uit het hoofd te trekken… Zoals ccn.com ook als gevolgtrekking maakt: ‘Nobody wants to use bitcoin as a currency while it CONTINUES its bull run.’

"Stealth Bailout" van buitenlandse banken door Fed gaat mainstream

"Exclusive: The Fed's $600 Billion Stealth Bailout Of Foreign Banks CONTINUES At The Expense Of The Domestic Economy, Or Explaining Where All The QE2 Money Went"

"How The Fed's Latest QE Is Just Another European Bailout" and

"The Fed's Bailout Of Europe CONTINUES With Record $237 Billion Injected Into Foreign Banks In Past Month."

"Exclusive: The Fed's $600 Billion Stealth Bailout Of Foreign Banks CONTINUES At The Expense Of The Domestic Economy, Or Explaining Where All The QE2 Money Went"

"How The Fed's Latest QE Is Just Another European Bailout" and

"The Fed's Bailout Of Europe CONTINUES With Record $237 Billion Injected Into Foreign Banks In Past Month."

Of course, the conformist counter-contrarian punditry, for example the FT's Alphaville, promptly said this was a non-issue and was purely due to some completely irrelevant microarbing of a few basis points in FDIC penalty surcharges, which as we explained extensively over the past 3 years, has nothing at all to do with the actual motive of hoarding Fed reserves by offshore (or onshore) banks, and which has everything to do with accumulating billions in "dry powder" reserves to use for risk-purchasing purposes (alas understanding that would require grasping that reserves are perfectly valid collateral to use as margin against purchase of such market moving products as e-mini futures, which in turn explains why traders usually don't end up as journos).

China tekent valuta-overeenkomst met Russische bank

Slowly - but surely - the USD's hegemony is being chipped away whether by foreign policy faux pas, crossed red-lines, or economic fragility. However, on Day 1 of Vladimir Putin's trip to China it is clear that the two nations are as close as ever. VTB - among Russia's largest banks - has signed a deal with Bank of China to pay each other in domestic currencies, bypassing the need for US Dollars for "investment banking, inter-bank lending, trade finance and capital-markets transactions." Kirill Dmitriyev the head of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund notes, "together it’ll be possible to discuss investment in various projects much more efficiently and clearly," as Russia's pivot to Asia CONTINUES to gather steam.

Italiaanse slechte leningen op recordhoogte

With all eyes gloating over Ireland's recent ability to issue debt in the capital markets once again (and now with 10Y trading only 40bps above US Treasuries), Europe's game of distraction CONTINUES. However, while spreads (and yields) tumble in all the PIIGS, with Italian yields at almost 7-year lows, it is perhaps surprising to some that Italian bad loan rates are at their highest on record. Having risen at a stunning 23% year-over-year - its fastest in 2 years, Italian gross non-performing loans (EUR149.6 billion) as a proportion of total lending rose to 7.8% in November (up from 6.1% a year earlier). As the Italian Banking Association admits in a statement today, deposits are declining (-1.9% YoY) and bonds sold to clients (-9.4% YoY) as Italy's bank clients with bad loans have more than doubled since 2008.