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Self-Sanctioning

Matt Sterett
Feb 28, 2022
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“It is a matter of life and death. So the EU will provide weapons for Ukraine’s armed forces. It is the moment to stand up and to speak out” - Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs


Editor’s Notes:

  • We have friends w/ family in Kyiv & Lviv; there are a number of ways to support - an easy one is World Central Kitchen

  • This piece - like the last one - is a one-off

We may not be back for a while -


SELF-SANCTIONING.

Russian exposures aside (above), there are reports of “self-sanctioning” in the crude & products trade.

While energy exports were excluded from sanctions, some of these commodities are traditionally financed via European bank trade finance desks.

That appears to be disrupted; unsurprisingly, Brent Crude is up 5% tonight.

That trade may run for a while -


BANK RUNS.

The ECB Says Sberbank Europe Is Failing or Likely to Fail. The inverse of this situation - European banks with Russian subsidiaries - will likely play out en masse in the next few hours, when Russian markets open.

We will not be surprised by a complete collapse of the Russian banking system.

Three European banks (above) have significant exposures to that scenario -


RUSSIAN EXPOSURES.

France - Renault in particular - has disproportionately large Russian exposures.

Outside of France, Coca-Cola HBC (listed in London) - the Eastern European / Russia / CIS Coke bottler - faces material volatility going forward.


Non-traditional resources:

  • A Twitter account following Russian air-force radio communications

  • Flight tracking (unusual flight pattern changes have materialized ahead of official announcements)

  • If you have not read The Prize, *read it now*

That’s it for tonight - hoping for a swift end to this chaos -


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