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The Round Up
12 October 2009
Issue No. 194
The Round Up is a comprehensive daily note produced by the RBS Warrants
team providing an overview of market movements along with quality ideas for
warrant traders and investors.
In today’s issue
Global Market Action Scoreboard, commentary
Aussie Market Action SPI Comment, Events & Dividends
CSL (CSLKZG) MINI Update – Gatting back to buy zone
RMD (RMDKZD) MINI Trading Buy – Acquisition of Narval
AGK (AGKKZE) MINI Investment Buy – Value in contract wins
Round Up Corner Strategy – Acquisition candidates
Equities
Commodities
Overnight Commentary
United States Commentary
Volumes lower but importantly ongoing strength, the Dow closing on its highs up another 78pts. Support for heavyweight techs,
Chevron and a couple of the growth names accounting for most of the days gains. The S&P added 0.6% and the Nasdaq finished
0.7% higher.
Techs - IBM up 3% topping the space and the Dow, accounting for 25% of the day gains after a bullish broker report. Including an 18%
lift to price target, talking up chip demand and hardware sales the broker in question joins a list of 4 other broking houses predicting
20% upside from the stock in the near term.
Techs - The IBM upgrade set the tone for the rest of the space, accounting for c50% of the Dow's move. HP up 2%, Cisco and Intel up
1.5% and together with IBM filled 4 of 5 top spots on the Dow.
Bonds/FX - Ongoing fallout from a disappointing 30yr auction on the Thursday together comments from Bernanke the Fed is ready to
tighten, saw yields up 8, 13.3 and 13,5 across the 3 maturities. The DXY only marginally lower but the AUD up over a cent, trading
90.4c.
Eco - Just the one data point on Friday, the commerce Dept reporting an unexpecting narrowing in August, coming in at -$30.7bln vs -
$33.0bln expected and an improvement on July's -$32.0bln.
UK Banks - Pressure on RBS and Lloyds saw those stocks off 1.25% and 0.3% respectively. The FT said the British government is to
start examining their loan pricing mechanisms. Standard Chartered fell 0.8% but HSBC and Barclays managed gains of 0.7% and
0.3% respectively.
Telcos - Vodafone was a big drag on the blue chips, shedding 1.6%, extending recent falls on concerns over a price war among Indian
mobile firms.
Pharma - With banks and miners weaker investors moved some cash into the sector. AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline were up 0.4%
and 0.7% respectively Shire adding 0.5%.
Consumer Goods - Unilever was one of the FTSE's best, up 2.7%, after industry data showed sales of product lines such as ice-
cream and deodorant accelerating since July.
Commodiites Commentary
Miners - A stronger dollar saw weaker metal prices. BHP was off 0.4%, Anglo fell 1.4%, Xstrata dropped 1.3%, Vedanta also fell 1.3%
but Rio managed a gain of 0.5%.
Energy - Crude held above $71 which saw some of the oil majors gain. Shell climbed 1.7% after the Canadian and Alberta
governments promised C$865mn Shell develop carbon capture and storage at its oil sands processing plant. BG rose 0.9%, Cairn was
up 0.1% but BP fell 0.6% and Tullow was 1.7% lower.
SPI Commentary
The SPI traded down 23pts or 0.48% to 4749. Open at 4794 with a high of 4810 and a low of 4748. Volume 27,232. The SPI traded up
34pts to 4783.
*SPI report taken from the 9:50am open to the 4:30pm close on the previous trading day. Charts taken from IRESS
Monday AUS
US Columbus Day holiday
Tuesday AUS NAB Business confidence, NAB Business conditions
US
Wednesday AUS WMI consumer confidence
US Import price, retail sales
Thursday AUS RBA Governor speaks, RBA bulletin
US Business inventories, FOMC minutes, CPI, NY Fed Empire PMI
Friday AUS
US Philadelphia Fed index, industrial production, Michigan consumer sentiment
*Dates are indicative only and may change
MINI Update:
Source: IRESS
CSL is trading in a pennant formation evidenced by the formation of higher lows and lower highs. The stock pulled back
from the top of its pennant last week. Look to buy below $31.
Source: IRESS
RBS target price is unchanged at $5.65. We continue to believe RMD is a quality franchise, with a number of near- and
medium-term growth drivers. Near-term catalysts include next week’s US Medtrade conference, which may see the
release of new products for the US market.
Source: IRESS
AGK has recently won 1360GWh worth of desal contracts in VIC and SA. While pricing hasn’t been released, RBS
Research estimate the group has locked in roughly A$120/MWh with CPI escalation. This ensures that economics will
remain robust on a large portion of AGK’s wind farm projects and also means new projects will be accelerated.
Acquisition Candidates
As the global financial crisis continues to recede, RBS Research Strategy believe we are about to enter into an
investment/M&A cycle in the market. Balance sheets are lowly geared, asset values are off their peaks and management
will be starting to think of expansion rather than survival. We identify potential acquisition candidates.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us on the details below
Contact
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Investment Products Team
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Mark Tisdell 02 8259 6951 mark.tisdell@rbs.com
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