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RBS - Round Up - 111209
RBS - Round Up - 111209
The Round Up
11 December 2009
Issue No. 237
The Round Up is a comprehensive daily note produced by the RBS Warrants
team providing an overview of market movements along with quality ideas for
warrant traders and investors.
In today’s issue
Global Market Action Scoreboard, commentary
Aussie Market Action SPI Comment, Events & Dividends
NWS (NWSKZJ) MINI Trading Buy USD rebound, more value in TV
QAN (QANKZK) MINI Trading Buy – Strong load factors
ASX (ASXKZI) MINI Trading Buy – Strong November trading
Round Up Corner Banks Update – ANZ,CBA,NAB,WBC
Equities
Commodities
Overnight Commentary
United States Commentary
Despite the weekly dose of employment data providing little to no comfort around the health of the US labour market,
cyclicals, retail and media all did well. With 30mins to trade, the Dow is off highs but up 57pts, the S&P up 0.4% and the
Nasdaq 0.2% higher.
Media - Publisher Gannet Co. up nearly 9% and the S&P500's best, after the groups CFO said they will likely beat the
street with 4Q numbers on slowing declines in advertising revenue. The rest of the space came along for the ride, Time
Warner up over 4%, Walt Disney up 2.4%(one of the Dow's best) and Newscorp trading 2% higher.
Resources - Putting aside a mixed night for the commodities, resource/energy stocks were a feature in the plus column.
Alcoa up over 3% and the Dow's best, NationalOilwell 5% higher and the S&P100's top performer, Halliburton up 3% and
Schlumberger 2.1% higher.
Eco - Trade Balance for October -$32.9bln vs -$36.8bln. Initial Jobless Claims 474K vs 455K expected and up on last
weeks 477K. Continuing Claims 5157K vs 5450K expected.
Consumer - Coca-Cola up 1.6%(biggest pt contributor on the Dow) and along the way hitting itts highest level since 2008
on news the group had settled on a pricing dispute with Costco.
UK Banks - Lloyds, up 6.5%, was the best on the FTSE100 ahead of their rights issue tomorrow. Standard Chartered
added another 3.3% after their positive trading update the night before whilst Barclays rose 4.6%, RBS climbed 3.4% and
HSBC ended 2% higher.
Euro Banks - Comments from the EU suggesting Greek state bankruptcy was out of the question saw the sector bounce.
Greek banks were strong whilst amongst the majors Deutsche Bank climbed 1.5%, Commerzbank was up 1%, BNP rose
0.75% and SocGen ended 2.1% higher.
Eco - As expected the BoE kept rates unchanged at 0.5% and said that the target for asset purchase program remained
unchanged with a £200bn quantitative easing.
Consumer - Cadbury rose 0.8% after rumours that Hershey was close to making an offer. In the retail sector, Inditex
advanced 3.6% after the Spanish owner of the Zara chain reported strong earnings for the first nine months of the year
thanks to growing sales in Asia.
Commodites Commentary
Miners / Energy - Weaker commodity prices hit the miners and the oil majors. BHP was flat but Rio fell 1.4%, Anglo
dropped 0.3% and Xstrata was the worst on the FTSE100 off 2.1%. Amongst the energy stocks BP and Shell were both
off 0.5%.
SPI Commentary
The SPI traded down 18pts or 0.3% to 4614. Open at 4632 with a high of 4656 and a low of 4593. Volume 25,547. Overnight the SPI
traded up 24 to 4638.
*SPI report taken from the 9:50am open to the 4:30pm close on the previous trading day. Charts taken from IRESS
Source: IRESS
Source: IRESS
Get long ASX with ASXKZI for a valuation uplift to Target Price of $40.
Source: IRESS
ASX last traded $33.33, BUY ASXKZI for 1-for-1 upside towards RBS Target Price of $40.00
Sector performance
Banks' PE relative (to All Ords) is back down to 86%, having underperformed the market over the last month. While this is
above the long-run average, given short-term structural advantages, we believe the sector can trade at a premium. The
banks are now trading at an average PE of 13.5x FY10F on IBES consensus.
Investment view – RBS Research prefer ANZ and NAB to WBC and CBA
As a result of a normalising earnings cycle, we believe relative valuation will again play a significant role in the relative
performance of stocks in the sector. RBS believe ANZ and NAB still have the greater share price upside potential over
the next six to 12 months, given their 1-2 PE point discounts.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us on the details below
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Investment Products Team
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Robert Deutsch 02 8259 2065 robert.deutsch@rbs.com
Mark Tisdell 02 8259 6951 mark.tisdell@rbs.com
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