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Friday, February 21st, 2020 Categories: Elections, Equities, Rotation, United Kingdom
Is the Boris trade close to its peak?
In Q3 2019 a group of housebuilders, utilities and dollar-sensitive industrials began to outperform the UK index on hopes that the Conservatives would win a general election. This created a powerful long momentum effect, but our analysis says that we are now close to maximum exposure. For the Boris trade to become more powerful, we need greater consensus on which stocks to underweight/short.