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Forget About Turkey: Asia Is The Elephant In The Room

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

This is what the Bank of International Settlement said then:

Just as the VIX index was a good summary measure of the price of balance sheet before the crisis, so the dollar has become a good measure of the price of balance sheet after the crisis. The mantle of the barometer of risk appetite and leverage has slipped from the VIX, and has passed to the dollar.

What explains the dollar's role as the summary measure of the appetite for leverage? In a nutshell... there is a tight "triangular" relationship between (1) the dollar, (2) cross-border bank capital flows in dollars and (3) the deviation from CIP. The key to understanding this relationship is that dollar cross-border capital flows closely track the leverage decisions of global banks. The triangular relationship says volumes about the role of the US dollar in the global banking system, and ultimately how the monetary policy backdrop determines global financial conditions.


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