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Relief Rally In Global EquitiesGlobal Equities are experiencing a relief rally after a bizarre turn on events. For some reason, the brazen murder of British M.P Jo Cox turned the increasingly large "leave" vote around, and the "remain" vote regained the led heading into Thursday's Brexit vote.
The Euro Stoxx 50 Index jumped off of technical support of 2,814 but still remains in a clear downtrend of 2015's bubble-high of 3,837. Since last year's top, the index has made several lower-lows, and the current trend from the bear market bottom has etched out two clear lower-highs.
Given the state of the brief risk aversion seen last week as the "leave" vote took a pronounced lead, global were "due" for a rebound. As alerted earlier last week, the near-term momentum was set for a shift:
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If you look across European equities, the prospects are not turning out like many thought. In regards to the Euro Stoxx 50, price action does not get interesting until a close above the near-term, broken uptrend AND prevailing downtrend is confirmed. The 200-day EMA will be a key pivot point. The index has not been able to trade above this dynamic resistance since last December.
Wait for price to trade into resistance near 3,000/025. MacroView does not expect Britain to leave the European Union, but there are far too many risks to get excited about.
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BARCLAYS $BARC - Brexit fears holding back breakout.We have to keep instruments like this under a close eye over the coming week. Although a lot of indicators and paterns pointing to a breakout, it is clear that Brexit worries are keeping it down for now. I expect it to be a flat week until Thursday evening/Friday Morning of the 24th. Neautral
But I like the repeating Head & Shoulders bottoming patterns!
Short the BanksUS banks overpriced in relation to EU and Japan banks
Uptrend broken
Ribbon pointing down
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Stoxx bank index - Failed breakout, larger down trend intactConcerns surrounding Europe's banking sector suddenly seemed to have vanished away from the markets. However, Stoxx 600 index chart clearly shows the larger falling trend line is intact and a bullish break from a smaller symmetrical triangle failed.
Caution is advised at least as long as the larger falling trend line isn't breached.
Banks woke up after FedFundamentals :
According to minutes of the Fed's latest meeting, U.S. central bankers feel it would be time to raise rates at the next Fed meeting on June 14-15 if hiring and economic growth continue to strengthen and inflation keeps rising. Higher rates are good for Banks and bad for Utilities and REITs.
Technicals :
Banking sector was a laggard compare to broad market but recently has been holding near year's highs. With yeasterday's reaction to Fed's announcment, it triggered an initial Entry after break and close above trend line. I am curful here, as it is only 1 day action and could be erased.
Trade Management :
Break of bull flag triggered at $23.20 with respective stop at $23. If it builds udner the highs $23.77 new set up, I will add with Target at $24.70 (2015 highs)
Oil Price stress on Banks with energy exposureOil price recovery has been mostly driven by USD related factors and so the fundamentals are still not where they need to be and the chronic oversupply continues. The banks with the largest energy debt exposure have felt the squeeze as a result and remain relatively risky.
This chart shows the performance of the banks with the largest declared Energy debt exposure in the US vs the XLF ETF and wider S&P 500 Index, the backdrop is the Oil price.
XLF- Which way to goI'd say closer to a short than a long, but we still need a clearer picture. A break 24.5/25 would be bullish, a break below 20 or so, bearish. THink we will move one way or the other in the coming months based on important fundos such as Spanish Election, Brexit, US election, China, etc.
BEARISH BBAS3BBAS3 (Banco do Brasil) releases earnings this Thursday. As happened with other Brazilian banks they must trigger sells (ex: ITUB4, BBDC4). Being a state owned bank must intensify plunge.
I should start to buy a put spread (between 18.50 and 17.50) today to take advantage of this movement.