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Omicron is an anagram (read below) and likely to turn Black Friday to Green Cyber Monday

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STRATEGY: Omicron is an anagram (read below) and likely to turn Black Friday to Green Cyber Monday

New meaning to "Black Friday" --> Panic around Omicron-variant hit on one of the least "liquid market" days
On Friday, equities around the world sold off sharply, on the heels of market panic around the newly termed Omicron-variant of COVID. As has been the case for the past 18 months, financial markets have reacted to incoming COVID-19 developments via "fire, ready, aim" -- meaning, markets often assess the situation once "risk-off" is achieved.

- since making new highs on Nov 22, the S&P 500 is now off 3.3% from those highs
- this is consistent with the base case by Fundstrat's Head of Technical Strategy, Mark Newton (learn more)
- Newton has called for a 3-5% sell-off in late November, bottoming before 12/4/2021
- and a subsequent fierce rally in December

The S&P 500 is off 3.3%, which is within the "3 to 5%" window. For multiple reasons discussed in this note, we would be aggressive buyers of this pullback. As with the case for Beta and Delta variants, the "bark" has proven worse than the bite in each of those pre...

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