sentix ASR Essentials 20-2014
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08 June 2014
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sentix Weekly
ECB relieves uncertainty overhanging Equity sentiment
The latest Sentix survey provides a timely view of investor opinion in the wake of the ECB's announcement of a raft of unconventional measures to support the economy and meet its inflation targets. On the Eurozone bond front, investors have become relatively neutral on the near-term outlook for Bunds, but optimism remains high-end on the medium-term. This chimes with survey readings that indicate that survey participants view economic developments as having become less bondbearish in the medium-term (Chart 2, page 2). Perhaps the more notable sentiment impact has been for equities, with medium-term sentiment on EuroSTOXX pulling further away from recent lows, in the wake of a sharp decline in investor uncertainty on the 6M outlook, as gauged by the Neutrality index (Chart 7, page 3).
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