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Some $5 trillion in U.S. stock options are set to expire on Friday, 80% in S&P 500-linked contracts - the largest such expiration in at least 20 years - according to Asym500 MRA Institutional, a unit of derivatives strategy and execution firm Macro Risk Advisors.

The plunging VIX index could be a sign investors have become complacent about the economy, according to the Swiss bank.

“One has to be in the private bank space going into next year because with continued political certainty, the re-leveraging of the economy will continue and capex will continue to be a theme. We would like to play that theme. The NIM correction will happen in a couple of quarters, maybe. And then natural growth, which is led by asset growth, will take over.”

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“We are not too much focussed on the lower end of the spectrum or lower ticket size lenders. If you look at the construct of our portfolio, it is a very good balance between small finance banks as well as some of the B2B lenders, I mean some sector specific lenders which is very well evident in the portfolio.”

“Given the current sentiment, as we move into the next calendar year, we could see fresh allocations from FIIs and they could take a slightly positive view over there. The allocations could increase in the first half of next calendar year and with the strong domestic flows which are coming, we could probably see the markets getting into elections slightly on a positive note.”

As per regulatory guidelines, a flexi cap fund is an open-ended, dynamic equity mutual fund scheme. In this category the fund manager can choose to invest across companies of any market capitalisation be it large-, mid- or small-cap companies without restrictions.

"Market pricing for rate cuts is a bit overdone in our view," said Wei Li, Global Chief Investment Strategist for BlackRock. "Rate volatility is here to stay."

The price of Kenya’s maturing $2 billion (Sh306 billion) Eurobond has become volatile in secondary market trading.