今天早上上班的第一件事,就是被老板紧急召集开会,告知 Bear Stearns 倒闭事宜并商量如何知会客户。
手边有份分析员第一时间写出的分析报告,结论很平淡无奇,摘录如下。值得关注事态的进一步发展,因为这件事让我们明白了一点:在信心崩溃的市场上,没有什么是不可能的。
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[b]Implications & Thoughts on the I-Banks[/b]
* During a crisis of confidence, earnings, book value and liquidity don't matter much. If confidence breaks down rapid deterioration will likely follow.
* No firms that is reliant on the secured funding marketplace and short term borrowings is immune to a crisis of confidence (includes every investment bank).
* The rapid deterioration of Bear Stearns' liquidity situation was driven by a meaningful loss of confidence and resulted in unwillingness in some of its client/counterparties to transact with them.
* Bear Stearns had a $400b balance sheet at 11/30/07. Any type of rapid fire sale of these assets will put significant strain on all investment bank balance sheets with likely meaningful negative market.
* Clearly the Fed is looking to use non-conventional ways to reinstall confidence and liquidity in the system. The $200b TSLF arrangment that starts on March 27th, giving Bear Sterns access to the Fed window via a conduit and other potentially forthcoming actions are all helping the situation, but it seems like more needs to be done.
* Solutions? A potential solution is more coordinated involvement between the Fed, Treasury, regulators and large market participants to try and revive confidence and liquidity directly into the system (e.g. normalize the repo marketplace). The likely process will have to be larger and more dynamic than simply lowering the Fed Funds rate.[/quote]