Deutsche: “Euro Stocks Haven’t Priced In Any Adverse French Outcome”, That’s A Mistake
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Apr 21, 2017
Ahead of the first round of the French elections on Sunday, Deutsche Bank’s equity strategist Sebastian Raedler again reminds his bank’s clients and the seemingly unperturbed markets, that despite the tightening of the poll numbers among the four front-runners, European equities show little sign of pricing in a meaningful political risk premium. In fact, as he notes below, European equities appear to not have priced in even a modest political risk discount.
This may be a mistake. As a reminder, if we look at the last 3 polls run by those pollsters then the spread between the four candidates is at an average of 4.5%. Macron’s average is 23.3%, Le Pen 22.3%, Fillon 19.7% and Melenchon 18.8%. So it’s quite possible that these 4 candidates will be clustered together given that the spread is within the margin of error from previous elections (see “Is A Le Pen – Melenchon Second Round Possible: A Concerned Deutsche Bank Answers”).
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