Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Remember Gisele and her euros?

Supermodel Bundchen Joins Hedge Funds Dumping Dollars

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world’s richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar.

Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans led by President George W. Bush are living beyond their means...

When Bundchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co., she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil’s biggest weekly magazine. She’ll also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce & Gabbana SpA in Milan to promote the Italian designer’s new fragrance, The One, Veja reported. Bundchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July.

Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” Patricia Bundchen, the model’s twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in a telephone interview in September from Sao Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week.
http://designtrash.com/politicsblog/?p=142

Maybe she could tell us if the hedge funds are finally done selling their stocks! Because it looks like they have already sold a lot of their euros!

And remember Warren Buffett's latest quarterly report? He had already liquidated all of his short positions against the dollar.

We could get a vicious move in stocks when the unwind is over, just like we had in currencies!

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