http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cds-traders-beating-uk-death-drumsAs we pointed out last week,
nobody cares about either Greece or the PIIGs any more.
The focus among the smartest money out there, in the face of CDS
traders, for the third week running, is on the core of Europe, and
specifically on the UK. Last week the net notional derisking in UK was
a massive $1,063 million in 280 traded contracts, which according to
our files is the single biggest one week derisking amount on record.
all the Greek "speculators" are now focusing their attention squarely
on the UK... and France, which came in second with $384 million in
derisking. Incidentally, these two represented the greatest amount of
of derisking in all top 1000 CDS reference names (third altogether was
not surprisingly Goldman Sachs with $256 million).
The bet is now squarely on that the PIIGS contagion will move to the UK, and that France will also not be spared. We
wish Mr. Cameron all the best as he attempts to push the $50 billion
austerity measure through. We have a feeling his popularity rating in
under a year will be even lower than that of president Obama. And if it
isn't it will be because the cable and the dollar will be at parity.
After all, we are all money devaluing comrades now.
Top 10 sovereign deriskers:
Top 10 sovereign reriskers:
Total sovereign weekly activity:
Source: dtcc.org