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Stocks Sink, With Banks Leading Losses

EQUITIES
  • Global equity markets are uniformly lower ahead of the Thursday US open, with the EuroStoxx50 future shedding over 5%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, sentiment in Russian equities is the most hard hit, with the MOEX Index off as much as 50% on the week at some points of the session.
  • Banks and European financials are leading the decline, with the EuroStoxx Bank Index off over 8% at pixel time. Firms with particular Russian exposure are seeing the most acute losses, with the likes of Raiffeisen Bank and Polymetal International seeing the most notable losses.
  • the S&P E-minis technical condition remains bearish and a strong impulsive sell-off has resumed once again today. The move lower has resulted in a break of support at 4212.75, the Jan 24 low, resulting in fresh lows for the year and a resumption of the current bearish cycle. The focus is on the 4100.00 handle and 3990.50, 0.764 proj of the Jan 4 - 24 - Feb 2 price swing.

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