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Crude oil prices resumed the upward trend in May 2021 after their stall in April, and recorded six months of gains in the last seven months, increasing by 65% on a monthly basis between October 2020 and May 2021. ICE Brent's first month futures contract ...

06 2021, Arbat Capital

oil, investment

US banks outperformed the broad market again in May 2021, the 8th month in a row of outperformance after five consecutive months of weaker dynamics. BKX index increased by 5.0% MoM vs +0.5% MoM of SPX index, the 4th month in a row of positive absolute pe...

06 November 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

After five consecutive months of solid gains, crude oil prices eased on a monthly-average basis in a volatile month of April 2021, undermined by uncertain oil demand outlooks due to the COVID-19 resurgence in several parts of the world with different tim...

05 2021, Arbat Capital

oil, investment

US banks outperformed the broad market again in April 2021, the 7th month in a row of outperformance after five consecutive months of weaker dynamics. BKX index increased by 5.9% MoM vs +5.2% MoM of SPX index. Absolute April performance was +0.7 std from...

05 December 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

After a period of volatility, crude oil prices were higher on average in the month of March 2021, extending previous monthly gains after investors turned more optimistic about the global oil demand outlook and were anticipating a rapid tightening of oil ...

04 2021, Arbat Capital

oil, investment

US banks outperformed the broad market in March, the sixth month in a row of outperformance after five consecutive months of weaker dynamics. BKX index increased by 5.9% MoM vs +4.2% MoM of SPX index. Absolute March performance was +0.8 std from the mean...

04 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

US banks skyrocketed in February 2021 after relatively flat dynamics in January. BKX index increased by 16% MoM vs just +2.6% MoM of SPX index. February was the 5th consecutive month of outperformance after five months in a row of underperformance. 

03 August 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

US banks decreased slightly in January 2021, after three consecutive months of a significant growth. Notwithstanding, the first half of the month remained strong and BKX index outperformed the broad market again, for the fourth month in a row after five ...

02 September 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;

US banks rose significantly again in December, the third consecutive month of substantial outperformance after five months in a row of underperformance. Thus, BKX index rallied by 6.7% MTD (through December 24) vs +2.3% MTD of SPX index. Absolute perform...

01 August 2021, Arbat Capital

investment, banks;