‼️ BREAKING: EU EQUITIES UNDER PRESSURE ‼️
Germany's Greens won't support draft debt package in parliament. The CDU/CSU and SPD need the support of the Greens to achieve the two-thirds majority in the Bundestag in its old composition. The FDP, which was represented in the old Bundestag, will hardly vote in favor of such a debt package. Source: HolgerZ, DB
Germany is becoming great again thanks to Donald Trump...
Thanks to the decoupling from America and the billions in infrastructure investment that this entails, German stocks are gaining new appeal. Their global stock market capitalization share has climbed to 2.3%, up from well below 2%. But still miles away where it used to be... Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ
🚨HOLY COW: Hedge funds dumped global stocks at the fastest pace on RECORD over the last 2 weeks.
The majority of sales were in US equities and were even larger than during the 2022 BEAR MARKET. Meanwhile, sp500 and Nasdaq 100 are down 'just' 6% and 9% since their peaks. Source: Global Markets Investor
Italy's bond yield just crossed 4%! Thanks to Germany's embracement of debt to invest in defense and infrastructure.
Who remember what happened in 2011/2012? At the time the debt to GDP ratio was 108%. Today it is 140%... Source: Jeroen Blokland, Bloomberg
Incredible Germany equity inflows
Source: Goldman Sachs, EPFR
Make defense industry great again..
France Armies Minister Sébastien Lecornu encourages the French “to invest money patriotically to finance Defense”.
Europe's high-debt countries - like France, Italy and Spain - cheer Germany's fiscal expansion.
They're not doing that out of the goodness of their hearts. Germany now can't possibly say no to more joint EU debt issuance. A win for high-debt countries and their muddle through... Source: Robin Brooks
EU defence stocks so far this year....
Source: Koyfin
