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US banks significantly outperformed the broad market in September after very weak dynamics in August. But it still underperforms S&P 500 index ytd. Thus, BKX index increased by 7.5% MoM in September vs +1.7% of SPX index. Absolute September performan...

10 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks underperformed the broad market in August after strong price dynamics in July, the third month of underperformance over last four. Thus, BKX index decreased by 8.8% MoM in August vs -1.8% of SPX index. Absolute August performance on MoM basis wa...

09 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks outperformed the broad market in July after two consecutive months of underperformance. Thus, BKX index increased by 4.1% MoM in July vs +1.3% of SPX index. Absolute July performance on MoM basis was +0.5 StD from the mean and it is in the top 2...

08 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks bounced back in June after significant decline in May despite rate expectations moved lower again. Notwithstanding, it underperformed the broad market the second month in a row. In June, US banks increased by 6.7% MoM vs +6.9% of SPX index.

07 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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Dynamics within the sector was relatively uniform with negative US banks tumbled in May after significant growth in April when they outperformed the broad market by more than 5%. Notwithstanding, BKX index is still +7% ytd, the strongest growth of t...

06 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks significantly outperformed the broad market on MoM basis in April after very weak performance in March when banks tumbled by 6.5% because of very dovish Fed and lowered rate expectations. Thus, banks showed the strongest monthly performance in ...

05 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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Two consecutive months of outperformance after December sell-off gave way to a sharp decline in March. In result, relative performance of US banks was even worse than it was in December. Despite decline in March, banks demonstrated the strongest growth i...

04 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks significantly outperformed the broad market on MoM basis in January after very weak performance in December when banks tumbled by 15.5%. Thus, banks showed the strongest monthly performance since the election rally of 2016. But BKX index underpe...

02 August 2019, Arbat Capital

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US banks significantly underperformed the broad market on MoM basis in December after two consecutive months of outperformance. Thus, banks decreased markedly in absolute terms during the last month. So, BKX index underperformed SPX index in five months ...

01 2019, Arbat Capital

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