Financials Signaling Sustained Upside in Risk Assets?
The chart below shows the ratio of the SPX vs. XLF – when the ratio moves lower, financials out-perform. The ratio is now breaking below support line (1). This is important as every time the ratio has hit line (1) over…
This European Bank Could Provide Clues to the Next Big Move in Broader Risk Appetite
The chart below reflects that shares of NBG are caught in a tight consolidation pattern between lines (1) and (2). And though NBG trades in the low single digits now, we still believe its shares carry a good deal of…...
Taking a Look at Market Leadership Groups
The chart below plots the ratio of the SPX vs. XLF. When the ratio falls, financials are out-performing the broader market. Since 2010, when the ratio has fallen to line (1) support, it has marked almost perfectly, broader market tops in…...
Defining Alpha: Euro Financials Have Outperformed U.S. Ones by 9% Since We Suggested the Possibility on 5/31
All the way back on 5/31 we highlighted the potential for European financials to begin outperforming their U.S. counterparts, with this chart justifying the rational in that post. In that post we commented as follows: Ostensibly, such out-performance (of Euro…
Euro Financials about to Out-perform Near-Term, Positively Boost Global Sentiment?
The ratio chart below of the DJ Euro Financials vs. the XLF suggests the former could be reaching a support zone whereby they could out-perform the latter, at least in the very near-term. Ostensibly, such out-performance would likely be coupled…...