美債危機 更甚 希臘 PIMCO by 葛洛斯

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美債危機 更甚 希臘 by PIMCO 葛洛斯
2011-06-15 工商時報 【記者蕭麗君／綜合外電報導】 source:http://news.chinatimes.com/world/110504/122011061500159.html.

全球債券基金龍頭太平洋投資管理公司（PIMCO）操盤手葛洛斯再度唱衰美國經濟。他在周一接受CNBC專訪時指出，如果把社會福利未來積欠的債務列入，美國財政體質實際上比希臘與其他負債累累的歐洲國家更糟。

　葛洛斯還預言，如果希臘債務問題引爆為全面性危機，他預言，德國公債，而非美國公債將成為全球投資者的避險選擇。

　根據CNBC報導，目前外界焦點多集中在高達14.3兆美元的美國公共債務。不過這並不包括聯邦醫療保險、醫療補助與社會安全制度必須給付的金額。根據政府數據顯示，這些金額約為50兆美元。

　此外美國政府還背負其他債務，例如在2008與2009年金融危機後，對金融系統紓困的相關計畫負債。

　葛洛斯指出，如果把所有債務加總起來，以高標計算，美國財政負擔總額「將近100兆美元」，這也讓美國財政體質陷入岌岌可危的處境，他表示，他在短時間內也無法找到解決方案。

　他在訪問中還說，想在一、兩年內降低這些債務，是不切實際的假設。「這遠高於希臘（負債），更大幅超過幾乎任何一個已開發國家。」他警告美國正面臨嚴重問題，必須設法儘快解決。

　針對金融時報報導，為避免美國無法提高舉債上限，加上對政府解決債務與赤字問題缺乏信心，美國銀行可能在8月減少對美國公債的使用，葛洛斯也懷疑在聯準會結束第二輪量化寬鬆政策（QE2）後，還有誰將會買進美國公債。他說「當然不會是PIMCO，可能也不是目前的全球債券基金。」

　葛洛斯也證實PIMCO已經微幅調高公債配置比重，從4％上調至5％的報導。不過PIMCO對美債依然興趣缺缺。

　葛洛斯認為，投資人寧可買進資產負債表較優的加拿大或澳洲公債。而且這些公債殖利率比美債更高。

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US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross
Published: Monday, 13 Jun 2011 | 10:33 AM ET By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Staff Writer
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When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco’s Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.

Much of the public focus is on the nation’s public debt, which is $14.3 trillion. But that doesn’t include money guaranteed for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which comes to close to $50 trillion, according to government figures.

The government also is on the hook for other debts such as the programs related to the bailout of the financial system following the crisis of 2008 and 2009, government figures show.

Taken together, Gross puts the total at “nearly $100 trillion,” that while perhaps a bit on the high side, places the country in a highly unenviable fiscal position that he said won’t find a solution overnight.

“To think that we can reduce that within the space of a year or two is not a realistic assumption,” Gross said in a live interview. “That’s much more than Greece, that’s much more than almost any other developed country. We’ve got a problem and we have to get after it quickly.”

Gross spoke following a report that US banks were likely to scale back on their use of Treasurys as collateral against derivatives and other transactions. Bank heads say that move is likely to happen in August as Congress dithers over whether to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, according to a report in the Financial Times.

The move reflects increasing concern from the financial community over whether the US is capable of a political solution to its burgeoning debt and deficit problems.

“We’ve always wondered who will buy Treasurys” after the Federal Reserve purchases the last of its $600 billion to end the second leg of its quantitative easing program later this month, Gross said. “It’s certainly not Pimco and it’s probably not the bond funds of the world.”

Pimco, based in Newport Beach, Calif., manages more than $1.2 trillion in assets and runs the largest bond fund in the world.

Gross confirmed a report Friday that Pimco has marginally increased its Treasurys allotment—from 4 percent to 5 percent—but still has little interest in US debt and its low yields that are in place despite an ugly national balance sheet.

“Why wouldn’t an investor buy Canada with a better balance sheet or Australia with a better balance sheet with interest rates at 1 or 2 or 3 percent higher?” he said. “It simply doesn’t make any sense.”

Should the debt problem in Greece explode into a full-blown crisis—an International Monetary Fund bailout has prevented a full-scale meltdown so far—Gross predicted that German debt, not that of the US, would be the safe-haven of choice for global investors.

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