USD Libor futures: Are Banks Funding Disappearing?

Interesting moves in Eurodollar contracts (and Euribor contracts too).

The short-end of the curve, much linked to the Fed Funds rate, for instance, has widened.
Is this the same move experienced in late 2010? In 2008?

I do not know. But stay tuned to possible funding issues now with european banks on negative watch due to the debt crisis.

With equity markets taking a beating it doesn't make much sense to see rates going up...

The book HOUSE OF CARDS was very fun to read and it touched this exact topic. Bear Sterns died (and Lehman) when funding dried up and the short-term funding x long-term assets issue popped up.

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