Deutsche Bank strategists 'underweight' on Germany, France; "overweight" UK, Switzerland

Reuters

Published Mar 23, 2017 02:36AM ET

Deutsche Bank strategists 'underweight' on Germany, France; "overweight" UK, Switzerland

PARIS (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's European equity strategists on Thursday said they had "overweight" positions on the UK and Switzerland and "underweight" positions on Germany and France, with political risks one of the negative factors for the French market.

"Improving macro momentum has been the key driver of the European equity market over the past eight months, leading cyclical country indexes, such as Germany and France, to outperform," Deutsche Bank's team said in a research note.

"We expect both to underperform going forward, as the recent surge in global growth momentum starts to fade," added the note.