{"id":68679,"date":"2024-06-19T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68679"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:48:10","slug":"the-music-just-stopped-japan-banking-giant-norinchukin-to-liquidate-63-billion-in-treasuries-european-bonds-to-plug-massive-unrealized-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68679","title":{"rendered":"The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries &#038; European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/music-just-stopped-banking-giant-norinchukin-liquidate-63-billion-treasuries-and-european\">The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries &amp; European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized 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from what is happening in the US, where as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/news\/speeches\/fdic-quarterly-banking-profile-first-quarter-2024\">FDIC keeps reminding us quarter after quarter<\/a>, US banks are still sitting on over half a trillion dollars in unrealized losses, as a result of the huge jump in interest rates which has blown up the banks&#8217; long-duration fixed income holdings, sending them trading far below par and forcing banks (and the Fed, see BTFP) to come up with creative ways of shoving these massive losses under the rug.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Q1%202024%20unrealized%20losses%20us.jpg?itok=ncWrJR68\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"70e1898f-f820-4b30-8a82-3e0b40b876ab\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" 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