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Crude oil prices ended February 2020 sharply lower with both ICE Brent and NYMEXWTI showing monthly declines of more than 12% to reach their lowest monthlyvalues in almost 2.5 years as the rapid spread of Covid-19 in China and several othercountries rais...

03 2020, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

US banks tumbled again in February after very weak performance in January amid spreading COVID-19 around the world. The broad market was underperformed substantially for the second consecutive month after 4 months in a row of leading dynamics. Thus, BKX ...

03 August 2020, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

Trade war is officially over but Chinese risks resurfaced from the other side - extreme quarantine measures after coronavirus outbreak in Jan-Feb resulted in significant breakdown in the industrial production chains and construction activity. However mon...

02 2020, Arbat Capital

commodity;

US banks declined significantly in January after very strong performance in 2019. Thus, the broad market was underperformed substantially after 4 months in a row of leading dynamics. Thus, BKX index decreased by 7.6% MoM in January vs -0.2% MoM of SPX in...

02 August 2020, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

In January 2020, crude oil prices erased all the gains accumulated over the previoustwo months, with ICE Brent falling at the end of January, to reach its lowest dailylevel in three months. This was on the back of easing geopolitical tensions in the Midd...

02 July 2020, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Trade war is officially over as US and China signed the Phase.1 deal in the middle of January. Trump is desperately willing to support financial markets in election year especially as he faces an impeachment process. Overall risk conditions switched to t...

01 2020, Arbat Capital

commodity;

Alcoa is CONTRARIAN BUY at $15-16 Trade war is officially over as US and China signed the Phase.1 deal in the middle of January. Overall risk conditions switched to the high Greed mode not seen since the late 2017 with commodities have been finally pla...

01 2020, Arbat Capital

commodity;

US banks outperformed the broad market in December (as of December 24), the fourth consecutive month of outperformance after very weak dynamics in August. Thus, BKX index increased by 3.2% MoM vs +2.6% of SPX index. Absolute December performance on MoM b...

01 August 2020, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

December 2019 crude oil prices continued to rise on greater optimism about theoutlook for oil market fundamentals, after OPEC and non-OPEC participating countriesdecided to proceed with an additional production adjustment in order to help balance theglob...

01 July 2020, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity