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BSIC Market Recap 23|11|13

Panel 22|11|2013 US This week Bernanke surprised the markets outlining the chance of early tapering of QE (December meeting). For us this is quite surprising, as we still believe the US economy is not performing as well as it was believed this spring. Three main reasons have worsened our outlook Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years23 November 2013 ago
Corporate Finance Debt Deals Equity Deals Old Articles

T-Mobile raises $2bn to increase its footprint in the 4G market

T-Mobile US, Inc. Market Cap (as of 23/11/13): $19.2bn T-Mobile US, Deutsche Telecom majority-owned mobile operator is raising $2bn in an effort to increase its footprint in the 4G LTE market. T-Mobile is the fourth mobile operator in the US with 45M customers ranking after Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years23 November 2013 ago
Corporate Finance M&A Deals Old Articles

Pharma’s Big Deal of the Year: Shire acquires ViroPharma

Shire PLC Market Cap (as of 15/11/13): £15.7bn ViroPharma Inc. Market Cap (as of 15/11/13): $3.3bn Monday, November 11th brought about the much rumored king-size deal of the year in the pharmaceutical sector: Shire PLC of Ireland acquired ViroPharma Inc., a US-based niche company focused on rare diseases, for a Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years16 November 2013 ago
Macroeconomic Views Old Articles

BSIC’S SPECIAL: Janet Yellen

Who is Janet Yellen, the woman everyone seems to be talking about these days? Why have we been hearing this name so often and what implications will it have on us? Well, we will presumably be hearing of Janet Yellen for quite a long time: last Wednesday President Obama nominated Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years12 October 2013 ago
Equity Indices Fixed Income Macroeconomic Views Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

In the Mind of the Federal Reserve

When first appointed in 2006 by President Bush, Ben Bernanke probably didn’t expect his two terms as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to be the most decisive ones of the past century. First denying an housing bubble, he had to face its real burst and the most threatening crisis Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years28 September 2013 ago
Currencies Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

Trade Idea: Short EUR/USD

This week was dominated by the US and European central bankers speeches. They both confirmed their accommodative monetary policy. However the FED just confirmed its commitment to the bond buying program until the economy would have showed sign of improvement. The ECB, on the other side, decided to take really Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years4 May 2013 ago
Equity Indices Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

Trade idea: Spread Long S&P 500 short Nikkei

We believe that in case of a strong distress the Nikkei index can suffer the most. Why not European equities? We believe that European equities have already suffered from the recent turmoil while the Japanese index has been heavily unaffected and has recently rallied dramatically, completely diverging from fundamentals whose Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years23 March 2013 ago
Currencies Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

Trade Idea: Long USD/GBP

There is a strong trend in place and we believe that it may continue in future. On the macroeconomic point the BoE is committed to a strong expansionary monetary policy and the new president claiming that inflation target may notbe the only goal of the bank with more focus on Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years23 February 2013 ago

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