Read the earlier article. Their borrower base was probably not as diversified as necessary. But the depositors money is there. Liquidity issue. They didn’t hide the money under a rug.
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The change in AFS HTM categorization and mtm rules whacked them. Not sure if it’s a hedging thing or just foresight at what the adjustment would cause 2-3 steps down the road (earnings loss/associated news/assoc withdrawals/combined with the obvious- higher rates causing “normal” withdrawals from higher growth VC/tech)
2022 bonuses hit employees bank accounts the day the FDIC took over. Just a coincidence but pretty crazy timing.
Reading those articles -- or rather trying to read them -- is evidence that I should stick to simple investing.
Stick to simple investing, unless you’re a pro. Warren Buffett would tell you he’d do the same, but his overall worth is beyond legally being to invest in a traditional savings/investment strategies.
Tech stock over valued? I’m beyond shocked. Tesla had a higher share value then the big 3 and toyota combined. Any moron knew that wasn’t sustainable, but traders milked a crap load of money out of the fallacy. Same with most start ups. Everyone was afraid to miss out on the next best thing. If you’re an average Joe (I’m a fucking electrician) keep your money in a diversified account and just hope you don’t retire when the assholes (who will always come out rosy) decide it’s time for a correction.
Want to invest, high KVA transformers are a year plus out on delivery time. Nothing in our economy works without them. Absolutely nothing. Large scale electronic manufacturers are a great investment. Demand is already at peak and will only grow.
I’d invest in Ford or GM than most tech companies. Wall Street is casino. The shining object is always revered. But the truth and value is in the foundation
The issue with svb is that z lot of their customers, vc funded firms, have their cash tied up for possibly a long time.
These firms have typically only a years worth of cash on hand and are missing money.
So if the cash is tied up for 90 days or more, they can't make payroll and could go bankrupt. Their VCs could step up and fund them, but probably on tough terms.
I was ceo of two tech companies that borrowed money from svb so I'm somewhat familiar with the problems these vc funded companies have.
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There's gonna be a run on Monday morning and the FDIC/Bufffet or someone better backstop a couple of these banks. Let's see what the FDIC does with SVB tonight. They need to get some good news out before 9am ET.
I wouldn't be shocked if a couple other banks have been working hard this weekend to raise cash.
Really nothing any bank can do if 25% of deposits get pulled in 24 hours...
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Thousands and thousands of small tech companies and thousands of them are run by complete morons. Not saying Rod is one, but I’m no longer surprised by the caliber of person wearing a “CEO” title. Mid level manager in a big company is often > CEO of a small company.
Ah, sure…. Kind of a distinction without a difference in that world, eh? Anyways….
Thousands and thousands of small tech companies and thousands of them are founded by complete morons. Not saying Rod is one, but I’m no longer surprised by the caliber of person wearing a “Founder and CEO” title. Mid level manager in a big company is often > founder and CEO of a small company.
I'm curious about the timing specifics with SVB.
When were the $25b in bonds sold leading to the $2b loss (rough numbers)? Recently like in Q1 2023? If so the earliest the market would have found out about that would have been when they filed their quarterly report unless a loss that large triggered some sort of reporting requirement.
So assuming I'm correct and that would have showed up in quarterly earnings, everyone found out about this because they were trying to raise additional capital and disclosed it in the offering?
If so that seems like a horrible, horrible sequence of events. Regardless, should have gotten the equity raise closed first and liquidated the bonds afterwards. Stock probably still takes a shit but at least you've already got the capital in to offset the losses on the bond sale and maybe that way you avoid the VC panic and therefore the bank run. Hindsight 20/20 obviously.
I expected a stronger statement before now. People are talking and making preliminary decisions over the weekend. As it stands, probably quite a few companies and individuals with uninsured deposits are gonna be moving money tomorrow. And that creates a lot of uncertainty about other banks, and Wall St. hates uncertainty.
The current plan of insured deposits available Monday am, and half of uninsured sometime later in the week, and the rest tbd... No part of that says bank deposits are safe. Even a peon's gonna be thinking about splitting their insured deposit between multiple banks to preserve access to some cash.
It’s not just the cliche tech bros tho. Somethjng like 50% of startups had there money in svb. If they go under that will set back a lot of tech innovation which will domino into economic set backs
Peter Thiel tho has just cemented his rep as pos if that wasn’t clear before now
What are the people in line outside the bank even doing? Are these people with >FDIC limits hoping to take home a briefcase full of cash? I thought the actual cash on hand was tiny at a branch. Can't do a wire online or is the website down? They have no other bank accounts anywhere and can't survive cashless for a week or two? Or is it worst case scenario the account is frozen and FDIC insurance takes months?
Last yr was the biggest bond market crash I’ve ever seen. Not sure if there has ever been worse.
People will begin talking about it. China probably isn’t happy either. Not sure how much money was lost in it but it rivals any stock mkt crash.
Anybody concerned with their accounts at Ally Bank?
https://www.morningstar.com/news/mar...ssesas-was-svb
Ally Financial Inc. (ALLY) -- the third largest bank on the list by Dec. 31 total assets -- stands out as having the largest percentage of negative accumulated comprehensive income relative to total equity capital as of Dec. 31.