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Alexander Ineichen

Flash Update 29 January 2018

GDP growth

US disappoints a bit. (page 2)

Economic sentiment

Continues to rise and surprise positively. (page 4)

Business sentiment

Continues to fall. (page 5)

Consumer sentiment

Continues to rise. (page 6)

PMI

From 9 preliminar PMI, 5 rose. (page 7)

US

Dec and Jan fall in Richmond Fed indicator is smaller than the rise in November. (page 8)

Eurozone

Remains in boomzone, with one regime test remaining negative though. (page 9) French and business sentiment indicators remains soaring.
(page 10)

Germany

Germany is in 100% percentile according to ZEW (page 11) and 99% according to IFO (page 12). Consumer sentiment at new all-time high.
(page 13)

Triva

In a gold diggers boom, it is those who sell shovels who make the money. (pages 14-15). 2018 losers have high weight in “Materials + Energy).
(page 16) The future, difficult to predict it is. (page 17)

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