Global Dollar Funding Shortage Intesifies To Worst Level Since 2012

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 10/03/2015 – 18:31

The last time we observed one of our long-standing favorite topics (first discussed in early 2009), namely the global USD-shortage which manifests itself in times of stress when the USD surges against all foreign currencies and forces even the BIS and IMF to notice, was in March of this year, when we explained that “unlike the last time, when the global USD funding shortage was entirely the doing of commercial banks, this time it is the central banks’ own actions that have led to this global currency funding mismatch – a mismatch that unlike 2008, and 2011, can not be simply resolved by further central bank intervention which happen to be precisely the reason for the mismatch in the first place.”

Furthermore JPM conveniently noted that “given the absence of a banking crisis currently, what is causing negative basis? The answer is monetary policy divergence. The ECB’s and BoJ’s QE coupled with a chorus of rate cuts across DM and EM central banks has created an imbalance between supply and demand across funding markets. Funding conditions have become a lot easier outside the US with QE-driven liquidity injections and rate cuts raising the supply of euro and other currency funding vs. dollar funding. This divergence manifested itself as one-sided order flow in cross currency swap markets causing a decline in the basis.”

To which we rhetorically added: “who would have ever thought that a stingy Fed could be sowing the seeds of the next financial crisis (don’t answer that rhetorical question).”

All this was happening when the market was relentlessly soaring to all time highs, completely oblivious of this dramatic dollar shortage, which just a few months later would manifest itself quite violently first in the Chinese devaluation and sale of Treasurys, and then in the unprecedented capital outflow from emerging markets as the great petrodollar trade – just as we warned in November of 2014 – went into reverse. In fact, there are very few now who do not admit the Fed is responsible for both the current cycle of soaring volatility, or what may be a market crash (as DB just warned) should the Fed not take measures to stimulate “inflation expectations” (read: more easing).

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