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losures on page 5 to 6. 11687576 Timestamp: 17 November 2016 03:30PM EST Bankof America Merrill Lynch 18 November 2016 Investment Strategy Japan Shusuke Yamada, CFA >> FX/Equity Strategist Merrill Lynch (apan) +81 3 6225 8515 [email protected] Exhibit 1: Sector rotation and inventory cycle Slowdown

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K --- Best Relative Value Trades Athanasios Vamvakidis Erjon Satko MLI (UK) MLI (UK) [email protected] [email protected] Arko Sen Shusuke Yamada, CFA >> MLI (UK) Merrill Lynch (Japan) [email protected] [email protected] Relative value in a macro world « Long EUR/JPY: data and positionin

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