UBS: Bank earnings slashed

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From the excellent Jonthon Mott at UBS:

A week is a long time… Now incorporating an Australian recession and QE

Given the rapidly deteriorating environment, UBS has further reduced our economic outlook. While we downgraded our bank EPS forecasts by ~3% last week these revisions already appear too optimistic. As a result, we have moved our ‘base case’ to what was previously our ‘downside scenario’. UBS FY21E sector EPS is now 15% below consensus. We have also added two more severe pandemic scenarios (see within).

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.