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Deutsche Bank Sees Brexit Risk Fading, Recommends More SWAPs

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Mark Melin
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Deutsche Bank looks around the world to ascertain risk in the middle of a potential $150 billion European bank bailout featuring the German bank, and what does it recommend? More SWAPs trades, of course.

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A leading bank with concerning derivatives exposure recommends derivatives

Never mind that an engrossing European bank bailout is related to a murder mystery -- not just one murder, but several -- is surrounded by a sea of non-cleared SWAPs trades.

Never mind that Deutsche Bank’s Chief Economist David Folkerts-Landau was calling for a massive bank bailout on CNBC Monday morning. (The new, polite terms is “state-led recapitalization.”)

Or ignore the fact that Doubline’s Jeffrey Gundlach is...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.