Ukraine Lehman moment builds around commodities

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This is some monetary egghead stuff but it is very important. TD Securities:

US Funding Stress: Ripples in the Water

•Bank unsecured funding levels have risen amid the financial reverberations of the Ukraine invasion. CP-OIS, Libor-OIS, and cross-currency basis have all widened. However, we argue that this is more a function of markets pricing in the potential of significant credit losses in the banking system. Higher credit risk premiums should also widen CP-OIS.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.