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ion stronger (trading +1.8%) • Balfour Beatty sells UK facilities business for £190 million, decent short interest in the name (trading -0.36%) • Tesco has entered into a MoU with China Resources to combine Chinese retail operations (trading +1.1%) • Swedish Banks: finance minister Borg talking abo

rey WSJ • Italy Aims for More Budget Austerity WSJ • 'London Whale' Unlikely to Face Charges WSJ • China Trade Offers Taste of Recovery WSJ • Tesco, China Resources in Talks Over Joint Supermarket Venture in China WSJ • Banker to the Poor No More WSJ • Noonan: How Obama Wooed the Middle Class

in Second Quarter HITC • India's Fear of Growth Bloomberg • Why Is U.S. Economic Mobility Worse in the Sou

88.ece> Chancellor rejects Europe's 'idiotic' banking deal The Times<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/article3403339.ece> Tesco tries to tempt savers with new bond The Times<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/article3402936.ece> Unfair division of the

ity / Unit Labor Costs / Jobless Claims @ 8:30am, Bloomberg Consumer Comfort @ 9:45am, ISM Non-Manufacturing

unemployment at 22.5% in the UK Daily Mail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2114806/Unemployment-highest-1995-young- people-work.html> Tesco chief Brasher to step down after one year Telegraph<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9144742/Tescos- UK-chief-Richa

PPI / Jobless Claims @ 8:30am, TIC Flows @ 9am, Bloomberg Consumer Comfort @ 9:45am, Philadelphia Fed @ 10a

UBS: cracking the egg Lex • KPN: Slim pickings Lex • Japan can put people before profits FT • Be afraid, very afraid, of the tech crisis FT • Tesco's convenient truth — revealed The Times • Barclays' mis-selling bill to top £3.4bn The Times • Jim O'Neill to leave Goldman Telegraph • How thi

o $780mn, faces major sanctions as a result (trading +1.0%) • Monte Paschi may disclose as early as today the size of losses masked by derivatives (Bloomberg) • Ireland and Portugal are looking to tap ECB's OMT bond-buying program according to Die Welt (MNI) • Former popular party treasurer Barcenas to

il Hydro 50,826 56,142 47,107 (9,036) 0.90% Roche 47,760 45,313 38,046 (7,267) 0.73% Caterpillar 39,984 36,013 34,420 (1,593) 0.66% Tesco 39,130 42,479 36,519 (5,960) 0.70% Groupe Danone 37,588 40,077 35,973 (4,104) 0.69% Petrobras (ADRS) 34,664 60,454 45,505 (14,949) 0

culated as the 22nd Sept 2010 using the Equity Portfolio positions as 30th June 2010 - The Stress Scenarios are build within Bloomberg / Provided by Bloomberg 18 EFTA00615061 VaR (cont'd) Consolidated Bond Portfolio (Internally Managed) VTR7 Historical 1 Day 1 week P&L • %Ret(P) 991 Scenarios v

the 'considerable time" language might be dropped to start more formally preparing the markets for the first rate hike in mid-2015 (WSJ) (Reuters). Tesco trading -10.2% in the UK after another big profit warning and weighing on the rest of the food retailers. WTI Crude traded as low as $62.25/bbl earl

ntial vote to next week from February in a risky move to save his coalition (first round of voting now on Dec 17 with further polls on Dec 23 & 29). Bloomberg notes that 'failure to install a candidate after three attempts [need 180 votes) would prompt the collapse of Samaras' coalition and the dissolutio

sell International unit for €550M, all net proceeds returned to holders (trading +0.53%) • Sports Direct option agreement with GS on 23M shares of Tesco (SPD LN -0.75%) (TSCO LN -0.74%) • UK Mail trends in Q2 disappoint, September parcel data weak (UKM LN trading -13.2%) (RMG LN -3.4%) • AB Inbev

revs beat but profit fell (declared 18c dividend) (trading up small) • Burger King issues $2.25B of debt to fund Tim Hortons (THI CN) acquisition (Bloomberg) • MI Q3 ebit margin light, September sales so far +7.0% (mkt at +14.4% for month) (trading -3.5%) • Telecom Italia: Sol Trujillo said to seek $9.

y-1 6 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-1 6 Oct-16 Source: Bloomberg Bankof America 2 European Equity Strategy |O01 Dec

sector is towards the higher range of its post-GFC range. UK supermarkets have had their relief rally. Despite challenges facing UK food retailers, Tesco has rallied 25% and Morrison’s 15% since Brexit as retail spending has held up and the short base grew massively immediately following the UK-EU vote