BarCap-Q42013-Focus Europe – MacroEcon

Here a reasonable report from the Barcap team on the macro econ front. Barcap-QuarterlyMacro-FocusEurope-Q413 I must say its the usual tinted optimistic view on the Euro economy. After 4 long years, its true, the de-leveraging cycle seems to at least be pausing in the euro area but at what stage in the global business cycle …

Weekly Technical Analysis – “A Break of 1061 Russell & 1670 SP500 Bearish & implies A More Important Market Top is in Place”.

The Swiss team’s technical report was released just as the price action was passing their key levels kicking off hedging actions for protection of longs. SOX, CYC consumer discretionary, OSX, Nasdaq Composite and the Russell-2000 have all broken last week’s pivotal reaction low. Of note the Russell really fell out of bed today as did …

Focus UK – A Cyclical or Structural Boom? (CS & WF) “UK Housing Flat, not Bubbly” Oct13

(The following report is available as a downloadable PDF here: UK-Oct07-13 )   This past weekend, US and Swiss investment teams have made the case that the UK’s current mono line cyclical boom could be a structural revival. In recent years I have advocated investing for the UK’s cyclical boombut I have always maintained there …

SG – FX Weekly Technical Analysis – 02-10-13

Some good FX charts and trade comments recommendations from the French team. SG-FX-Wklytech-02-10-13 I continue to participate in the eurgbp pair. Its been long running one for me and i faded the recent two day strength into the closes of both sessions, thurs,frid. Near term participants have been wrong footed but nothing has changed in …

Weekly Macro,Commodity & Econ Focus inc Japan & UK (CS, Epstein, WF, JP, etc)

As a general comment, the main US equity market indexes appear to be in a giant distribution since May. Higher highs have been achieved but at the cost of weaker and weaker technicals. Its not a hugely positive market in spite of higher prices being achieved. Europe has more momentum and price support for the …

BarCap – Equity Strat/Sectors, Picks – 04-10-13 & Comment..

A very useful report.. (Many thanks to Async for this one. Much appreciated by all i’m sure). Rich Barcap-Equity-04-10-13 A few updates as i go through all these reports. On Barc one of their key recommendations is re european cyclicals. They provide alot of data on the 12m, 3m and 1m performance of the various …