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Does anyone know a product for shorting European [euro area] banks? Perhaps based on a basket, or at least the basket-cases?
David Fuller's view There is a futures contract for Euro
STOXX Bank Index (weekly & daily)
(SX7E), which is listed as the CAA
Index on Bloomberg. Here also is their graph for the September
contract (CAU1). Although in a medium-term downtrend, the Euro STOXX Bank
Index may be a bit risky at the momentum following last week's weekly upside
key from prior support near 150. This broke the short-term downtrend since February
but there has been no upside follow through this week as you can see from the
daily chart above.
I note
that the CAA Index is not traded on IG Index. Therefore your more liquid alternative
may be to short something which would be affected in the event of further weakness
of European banks. The euro would certainly be a candidate. You can monitor
EUR/USD (weekly & daily)
and also see the single currency in various different cross-rates in the Library.