Direct Equity Trading - Central banks running out of ammunition?

Last week was quite gloomy for most risky assets. Commodities extended their multi month downtrend in correlation with the global economic slowdown and most equity markets posted new lows for the year breaking several important technical trend supports. Oil Brent fell below $100 a barrel for the first time since October. Last week’s advice on initiating a long position Oil Service Market Vector ETF has been a bit too anticipated, but a barrel at $80-$82 might still be an appealing reversal point. We continue to believe that we are at an attractive valuation level. Furthermore, cheaper oil will tense up the Russian political climate, increase Russian credit default swaps, and drown equity prices of shale gas producers....

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