Europe's Recession is Rapidly Getting Worse (Here's Why)
Source: YouTube · Eurodollar University · published Nov 23, 2024 · 20:36
The European economy is deepening into a recession, disrupting global financial flows through the euro-dollar system and increasing risks for the US dollar and other economies. 0:02
Key Takeaways:
• European PMIs have fallen below 50, with France’s composite PMI dropping to 44.8, signaling severe contraction in manufacturing and services 2:32.
• 23% of European banks’ funding is in foreign currency, primarily US dollars, sourced via US-based affiliates through repo and commercial paper 3:00.
• The euro-dollar system, critical for global liquidity redistribution, is now strained as European economic weakness disrupts cash and collateral flows, affecting Japan and China 4:04.
• Unsecured repo markets, especially non-centrally cleared, carry high counterparty risk and leverage, amplifying liquidity stress when European banks face funding constraints 13:16.
European economic weakness is not isolated—it globally synchronizes financial stress by undermining the euro-dollar system’s circulation of liquidity and collateral.
Sources:
- 0:02 European recession and its impact on dollar circulation
- 2:32 S&P Global PMI data showing manufacturing and services contraction
- 3:00 ECB report on US dollar funding and vulnerabilities in European banks
- 4:04 Euro-dollar system disruption due to European economic weakness
- 13:16 ECB on US dollar funding, repo risks, and liquidity vulnerabilities
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the European economy is in bigger trouble a rash of ugly economic data shows that the recession is accelerating to the downside well obviously that's not good news for Europe it's also not good news for the dollar and I don't mean the Dollar's exchange value rather why it's going up in the first place I'm talking about euro dollar circulation which is what really matters in every monetary context European banks have been leaning on their us-based Affiliates borrowing passive amounts in repo and issuing loads of commercial paper they transfer those virtual funds through the Euro doll networks back to Europe where their parent Banks Rend in US Dollars throughout the rest of the world this euro dollar redistribution business has gotten to be so big the ECB estimates accounts for a whopping 23…