Mar 25, 2013
Forex Flash: Buy Deutsche Börse and ICAP despite FTT – Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch analysts believe that the proposed European Financial Transactions Tax (“FTT”) is likely to undermine economic growth and investment returns due to the counterproductive implications of the tax going ahead in its current. “Our view is that the FTT may look like a simple toll on financial transactions. However, its structural features, which are very different from existing transaction taxes, make it a significant potential roadblock for the economies of the eleven participant nations”, they wrote, adding that if their view of the FTT is proved wrong, “all the volume sensitive stocks we cover could see very material hits to earnings”.
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