Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

We continue to see coronavirus concerns as helping correct the excess bullish sentiment across global equity markets in the short-term. Additionally, considering the dearth of breakdowns, we continue to believe this is a bull market until proven otherwise and a “buy the dip” strategy remains warranted. We recap importat technical levels across markets and highlight opportunities within the Services, Technology, Financial Services, and Staples Sectors.

We continue to see coronavirus concerns as helping correct the excess bullish sentiment across global equity markets in the short-term. Additionally, considering the dearth of breakdowns, we continue to believe this is a bull market until proven otherwise and a “buy the dip” strategy remains warranted. We recap importat technical levels across markets and highlight opportunities within the Services, Technology, Financial Services, and Staples Sectors.

Global Equity Strategy: Growth Over Value

TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX / Technical Analysis

Continue to favor EAFE over EM. As long as the U.S. dollar remains elevated, we believe  developed international (EAFE) will remain in a leadership position relative to EM (MSCI EM). In this report we highlight actionable set ups within Japan, Switzerland and Australia. Within Japanese Sectors, we focus on opportunities within Technology, Financials, Health Care, and Staples. We also highlight attractive setups within European/UK Sectors, including Health Care, Industrials, Staples and Utilities.

Continue to favor EAFE over EM. As long as the U.S. dollar remains elevated, we believe  developed international (EAFE) will remain in a leadership position relative to EM (MSCI EM). In this report we highlight actionable set ups within Japan, Switzerland and Australia. Within Japanese Sectors, we focus on opportunities within Technology, Financials, Health Care, and Staples. We also highlight attractive setups within European/UK Sectors, including Health Care, Industrials, Staples and Utilities.

Deterioration for ACWI ex-US, EAFE, and EM, continued bearish-leaning indicators, and the downward trajectory of bond yields leads us to remain cautious and concerned that global equities remain vulnerable and could be poised for additional weakness moving forward. Major indexes around the world continue to do next to nothing, making Sector, Group, and stock selection all the more important. We prefer to use a barbell strategy of growth and safety. Attractive and actionable themes highlighted in today’s report include IT Services/Tech Software, Communications, Precious Metals, and Utilities.

Deterioration for ACWI ex-US, EAFE, and EM, continued bearish-leaning indicators, and the downward trajectory of bond yields leads us to remain cautious and concerned that global equities remain vulnerable and could be poised for additional weakness moving forward. Major indexes around the world continue to do next to nothing, making Sector, Group, and stock selection all the more important. We prefer to use a barbell strategy of growth and safety. Attractive and actionable themes highlighted in today’s report include IT Services/Tech Software, Communications, Precious Metals, and Utilities.

Global Equity Strategy: Stay on the Defensive

Independent Investment Research, The IDEA!

The IDEA!

Independent Investment Research

The Idea-Driven Equities Analyses company (the IDEA!) is an employee-owned boutique providing independent investment research and financial consultancy services with a clear focus on the Benelux countries. The company was founded in the summer of 2007 by Henk Slotboom and Maarten Verbeek, both with more than 35 years of professional experience in the financial sector. The IDEA! differentiates itself by focusing on adding value through self-initiated in-depth, idea-driven investment research, as well as by bespoke research assignments for institutional investors, hedge funds and private equity. In addition, we provide market intelligence, strategic research and – together with our business partners – consultancy services to businesses. In case you are interested in receiving more information, a sample of our products or an introductory meeting, please send a message to info@theidea.nl.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>In this edition: • ING | rumoured to the preparing offer on Spanish asset manager Singular Bank • KPN | wins EUR 74m cloud contract from the City of Amsterdam • RELX/Wolters Kluwer | Elsevier strengthens position in CDS with Wellsheet acquisition • Universal Music Group | repurchased 14.2m shares from Pershing Square Funds • SBM Offshore | intends to sell a 45% stake in the SPVs controlling FSO Chalchi</li></ul>

In this edition: • ING | rumoured to the preparing offer on Spanish asset manager Singular Bank • KPN | wins EUR 74m cloud contract from the City of Amsterdam • RELX/Wolters Kluwer | Elsevier strengthens position in CDS with Wellsheet acquisition • Universal Music Group | repurchased 14.2m shares from Pershing Square Funds • SBM Offshore | intends to sell a 45% stake in the SPVs controlling FSO Chalchi

What's New(s) in Amsterdam - 5 June (ING | KPN | RELX/Wolters Kluwer | UMG | SBMO)

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Dimitris Ioannidis

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nokia-oyj" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21754:1" rel="noopener">Nokia OYJ (NOKIA FH)</a> has potential for inclusion in Eurozone Top 50 in June 2026 with its fast-entry to be determined on 29 May.</li>
<li>The security was deleted from the index in September 2025 and has since surged over 200%, reaching a rank above 25.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wolters-kluwer-nv" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21148:1" rel="noopener">Wolters Kluwer (WKL NA)</a> is the lowest-ranked constituent by far, resulting in its expected deletion from index as it will be replaced by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nokia-oyj" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21754:1" rel="noopener">Nokia OYJ (NOKIA FH)</a>.</li>
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Nokia OYJ (NOKIA FH) has potential for inclusion in Eurozone Top 50 in June 2026 with its fast-entry to be determined on 29 May.
The security was deleted from the index in September 2025 and has since surged over 200%, reaching a rank above 25.

Wolters Kluwer (WKL NA) is the lowest-ranked constituent by far, resulting in its expected deletion from index as it will be replaced by Nokia OYJ (NOKIA FH).


Nokia (NOKIA FH): Fast-Entry Potential into Eurozone Top 50 in Jun26

Netherlands

Wolters Kluwer NV provides information services to professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare. The Company provides its customers information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently. Wolters Kluwer operates in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

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Wolters Kluwer Nv (WKL NA)

Global Equity Strategy: Growth Over Value

We continue to see coronavirus concerns as helping correct the excess bullish sentiment across global equity markets in the short-term....

Vermilion Research

Developed Markets Opportunities

Continue to favor EAFE over EM. As long as the U.S. dollar remains elevated, we believe developed international (EAFE) will remain in a leadership...

Vermilion Research

Global Equity Strategy: Stay on the Defensive

Deterioration for ACWI ex-US, EAFE, and EM, continued bearish-leaning indicators, and the downward trajectory of bond yields leads us to remain...

Vermilion Research

What's New(s) in Amsterdam - 5 June (ING | KPN | RELX/Wolters Kluwer | UMG | SBMO)

In this edition: • ING | rumoured to the preparing offer on Spanish asset manager Singular Bank • KPN | wins EUR 74m cloud contract from the City...

The IDEA!

Nokia (NOKIA FH): Fast-Entry Potential into Eurozone Top 50 in Jun26

NOKIA is estimated to have missed fast-entry into Eurozone Top 50 at the last minute for the June 2026 quarterly review, following a 6.3% price...

Dimitris Ioannidis

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