Και μόνο το σήμα που θα εκπέμψει η κίνηση αυτή στις αγο�ές φτάνει για την πορεία που θα ακολουθήσει η δήθεν ευρωπαϊκή ένωση!
Όπως μεταδίδει το «capital.gr», στοίχημα ύψους 130 εκατ. βρετανικών λιρών κόντρα στο ευρώ έβαλε ο Λόρδος Rothschild εν μέσω διόγκωσης των φόβων για κατάρρευση της Ευρωζώνης.
Το μέλος της γνωστής δυναστείας πόνταρε κόντρα στο ευρώ μέσω της RIT Capital Partners, το επενδυτικό fund των 1,9 δισ. στερλίνων στο οποίο διατελεί εκτελεστικός πρόεδρος, μεταδίδει η Daily Telegraph.
Το γεγονός ότι ο πρώην επενδυτικός τραπεζίτης προβλέπει ....αυτή την εξέλιξη αναμένεται να θεωρηθεί αρνητικό στοιχείο για το κοινό νόμισμα. Πηγές αναφέρουν πως η τοποθέτηση δεν αντανακλά μια αρνητική δογματική άποψη για ευρώ ως νόμισμα, αλλά μια ρεαλιστική προσέγγιση απέναντι σε ένα νόμισμα που παραμένει σχετικά αδύναμο.
Πηγη:http://www.defence-point.gr/news/?p=56087
Lord Rothschild has taken a near-£130m bet against the euro as fears continue to grow that the single currency will break up.
Lord Rothschild has led RIT since 1988 Photo: AP
By James Quinn9:55PM BST 18 Aug 2012720 Comments
The member of the banking dynasty has taken the position through RIT Capital Partners, the £1.9bn investment trust of which he is executive chairman.
The fact that the former investment banker, a senior member of the Rothschild family, has taken suc! h a view will be seen as a further negative for the currency.
The latest omen follows news in The Daily Telegraph late last week that the government of Finland is already preparing for the euro's break-up.
RIT, which Lord Rothschild has led since 1988, had a -7pc net short position in terms of principal currency exposures on the euro at the end of July, up from -3pc at the end of January. Given a net asset value of £1.836bn at the end of July, the position is worth £128m.
Sources close to RIT suggested that the position was not a dogmatic negative view on the euro as a currency, but rather a realistic approach on a currency that remains relatively weak.It is not the first time Lord Rothschild has used currency positions as a form of hedge. RIT significantly incresed its exposure in sterling after the currency's decline in 2008, but then scaled back on both the sterling and the euro, anticipating the ensuing recessions in both regions.
Some 53pc of RIT's assets were in US dollars at the end of July, in part a reflection of its deal to buy a 37pc stake in Rockefeller Financial Services at the end of May.
Lord Rothschild is not alone in seeing value in shorting – or selling down – the euro. At a conference organised by business news channel CNBC in July, Mary Callahan Erdoes, head of JPMorgan Asset Management, said "shorting the euro" when asked for her single best investment idea.
In June, George Soros – the billionaire investor best known in the UK for helping to force sterling out of the European! Exchang e Rate Mechanism in 1992 by betting against the British currency – said that European leaders at that point had a "three-month window" to save the euro.
Πηγη:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9484435/Lord-Rothschild-takes-130m-bet-against-the-euro.html
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