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Tuesday, February 5

5th Feb - US Open





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Roundups & Commentary
Frontrunning – ZH
Overnight: Open Levitation Returns – ZH
The Lunch Wrap – alphaville / FT
Emerging N.Y. headlines – beyondbrics / FT
Daily press summary – Open Europe

Morning MarketBeat: Bullishness Bubbling Everywhere – WSJ
Morning Briefing (EU/US): Glass Houses – BNY Mellon
  Musings on the US’ silence in the face of Japan’s dramatic policy manoeuvres

EUROPE
The ECB’S 3-Year LTROS and the Shift in Credit SupplyThe Big Picture
An ECB working paper looks at the ECB’s three-year long-term refinancing operations (LTROs) and the shift in credit supply. “Compared with the most likely developments one could have expected at the end of 2011 when financial tensions culminated, our counterfactual exercises suggest that the 3-year LTROs significantly lifted prospects for real GDP and loan provision to non-financial corporations over the next two-to-three years.”

Are S&P and EU headed for eurozone reconciliation?Brussels blog / FT

Trial of Putin Foe Shows No Russian Investors are SafeBB

Euro, shares recover as European worries recede Reuters
European shares and the euro steadied on Tuesday, a day after a sharp selloff caused by rising political risks in southern Europe, as new data confirmed the region's economy is showing clear signs of recovery.

What If Nobody Wins the Italian Elections?WSJ

The Euro’s Honeymoon is OverWSJ

Forex Market Shrugs Off Hollande Comments on EuroWSJ
Complaints about the strength of the euro stepped up a gear Tuesday as French President Francois Hollande become the euro area's highest-ranking politician yet to wade in to the debate.

Mario Draghi’s poisoned banking chaliceHugo Dixon / Reuters
When euro zone governments agreed last year to give the ECB the power to supervise its banks, that looked like another victory for its president Mario Draghi. It is more like a poisoned chalice.

Mariano Rajoy's Mindblowing DefenseZH
"It Is All Untrue, Except For Some Things"

Spanish corruption scandal and Italian election spook markets - as it happenedThe Guardian

UNITED STATES
McGraw-Hill, S&P Sued by U.S. Over Mortgage-Bond RatingsBB

Continued easing of lending standardsDanske Bank (pdf)

OTHER
The great rotation: Not so great, and not even really a rotationalphaville / FT
The ‘great rotation’ from bonds into equities: a few weeks ago it was looking like it might be seriously on. Even Albert Edwards sort of kind of said equities were cheap. And Ray Dalio said it is happening, too. But there are a bunch of reasons why it doesn’t seem to be quite such a sure thing, at least for now.

IN FINNISH
Suomen julkisen sektorin ongelma on talouden tipahtaminen eikä niinkään yllättävä pöhöttyminentyhmyri

Kansantalouden tuotanto laski marraskuussa 2012Tilastokeskus

Palkansaajien ansiot nousivat loka-joulukuussa 3,2 prosenttiaTilastokeskus