http://www.zerohedge.com/article/brace-impact-2010-private-demand-us-fixed-income-has-increase-elevenfold-or-elseUn article
très intéressant et très convaincant, sur zero Hedge (en anglais), sur les perspectives de refinancement de la dette publique US pour 2010 : assez terrible, 2010 pourrait selon eux être l'année du début de la fin pour le Trésor US (et la Fed), qui devrait en toute logique être confronté à un choix cornélien :
Citer:
What options does this leave for the administration? Very few, and all of them are ugly. As we stated earlier on, the options for the Fed are threefold:
1. Announce a new iteration of Quantitative Easing. This will be met with major disapproval across all voting classes (at least those whose residential zip codes do not start with 10xxx or 068xx), creating major headaches for Obama and the democrats which are already struggling with collapsing polls.
2. Prepare for a major increase in interest rates. While on the surface this would be very welcome for a Fed that keeps hinting that deflation is the biggest concern for the economy, Bernanke's complete lack of preparation from a monetary standpoint (we are surprised the Fed's $200 million reverse repos have not made the late night comedy circuit yet) to a forced interest rate increase, would likely result in runaway inflation almost overnight. The result would be a huge blow to a still deteriorating economy.
3. Engineer a stock market collapse. Recently investors have, rightfully, realized there is no more risk in equities, not because the assets backing the stockholder equity are actually creating greater cash flow (as we demonstrated recently, that is not the case), but simply because taxpayers have involuntarily become safekeepers for the entire stock market, due to Bernanke's forced intervention in bond and equity markets. Yet the President's Working Group is fully aware that when the time comes to hitting the "reverse" button, it will do so. Will the resultant rush into safe assets be sufficient to generate the needed endogenous demand for Treasuries is unknown. It will likely be correlated to the size of the equity market drop.
If the Fed decides on option three, we fully believe a 30% drop (or greater) in equities is very probable as the new supply/demand regime in fixed income becomes apparent.
Je vois bien effectivement une chute des marchés actions, pour diriger les liquidités vers la dette US (et non-US d'ailleurs) ; et je n'arrive pas à croire que la Fed pourra tenir tout au long de 2010 en évitant un nouveau QE, peut-être après les élections US de novembre (mais ça fait tard... alors peut-être un gros krach boursier, pour financer la dette). Dans tous les cas, je déconseille fortement de rester sur les marchés actions en 2010.