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Morgan Stanley: Buy the Banks

The gurus from Morgan Stanley are out with a report, pounding the table for stocks, suggesting we have an 11% upside from current levels. Moreover, thoughts emanating from within their skulls, they’re strongly biased towards the banks. Their top pick is DFS, for a sundry of reasons.

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Their top picks:

We are overweight financials. In this report we analyze the case for the overweight and highlight our analysts’ top picks across the financial sector: DFS, IVZ, SIVB, KBC, and GS.

Portfolio Manager’s Summary: We think the risk-reward is pretty balanced for the US equity market, a more moderate stance than our bullish view for most of the last 3 years. The case for overweighting financials is a combination of weak positioning, improving deal volume, limited currency sensitivity, high growth in shareholder return, and a very low price.

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