Short recap
Asian stocks pausing
Samsung VP in custody over bribery, shares down only
1% as the company has good track record in coming back from troubles
Oil found support in talks about OPEC extending its
production cut (now 6 month only)
ECB Minutes showing possibility of capital key
adjustments what benefits peripherals a lot
French yields lower after seeing huge demand for 2028 bond
issue yesterday
Trump at the end of his marketing cycle, starting
campaigning again over the weekend
Ryan (speaker of the House of Representatives) having
troubles to push tax reform to republicans
Trump at joint-session of Congress on Feb 28
presenting his agenda, looking at cutting corporate tax to 15% but Republicans
resistant and open to 25% only as their fear of increasing the
debt ceiling again what will have implications on US credit rating
No clear expectations of his agenda for now, either he
disappoints or makes it
Allianz ready for buy backs worth of EUR 3 bln and
adjusting budget for takeover activities
Deutsche Boerse – LSE acquisition process spiced up
by allegation of DB CEO from insider trading
Snap IPO – owner of Snapchat to start investor
roadshow on Monday, lowering target valuation of the company
Germany supports Peugeot-Citroen takeover of Opel/Vauxhall
on no planned job cuts or factory closings
JP Morgan, BoAML, Citigroup proposing publicly to
easy anti-money laundering rules as they are ineffective
Blackstone buying Cloudreach that is active in cloud
computing business
OpenFin (financial software developer) raising USD 15 mln
from JP Morgan, DRW Trading group (high-speed trading firm) and NEX Group
(interdealer broker)
Saturday, US VP Mike Pence to reassure allies in
Europe and polish the wording Trump is using towards NATO and Russia
Data
Feb 20 – EZ FinMin meeting on Greece
Feb 28 – Trump at Congress (US stock investors should get
ready for a correction if Trump disappoints; on the other hand they are still
likely to find a pro-growth solution)
Mar 15 – FOMC
Mar 17-18 – G10 FinMin and central bankers meeting (right
after FOMC)
…the period between Fed 28-Mar 15 would be interesting as
Trump believes in weaker USD
EURSEK – seems to be heavy after Riksbank not
delivering
Waiting for CPI
Good luck Champs!
Mr Hawk
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