zeb.market flash (Issue 20 – January 2017)

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Key Topics

I. State of the banking industry

  • The banking industry has been the biggest winner in the latest stock market rally. The global top 100 banks boosted their market cap (+18.2%) and outperformed all other industries (TSR of +17.2%).
  • Especially US banks benefited from increasing US rates and the market trends due to the election of Donald Trump.

II. Economic environment and key banking drivers

  • Upward movements of global long-term yields as well as the latest Fed decision led to steeper EURIBOR and USD LIBOR yield curves.
  • The US Dollar was further strengthened by the result of the US election and increasing US interest rates—EUR/USD exchange rate has reached the lowest value for more than 10 years.
  • European and BRICS banks’ RoE shrank on average by 0.6pp to 5.7% and 0.5pp to 15.4% respectively—US banks further improved their profitability by 0.5pp to 8.9%.

III. Special topic: Trumpflation—“Make interest rates great again”?

  • High expectations towards Donald Trump’s political agenda led to a sharp increase in global long-term government bond yields.
  • Concrete economic consequences are not clear yet and a sustainable spillover to Europe is rather doubtful—European banks still have to deal with low interest rates and high market uncertainties in 2017.

 

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Dr. Dirk Holländer / author BankingHub

Dr. Dirk Holländer

Head of zeb.business school, Frankfurt Office Frankfurt

Volker Abel

Senior Manager zeb
Dr. Ekkehardt Bauer / author BankingHub

Dr. Ekkehardt Bauer

Senior Manager Office Münster

Maximilian-Josef Kaulvers

Senior Consultant

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