Last week was a pretty quiet in the Eurozone, and as expected, the market leading DAX Index did complete its corrective pattern, but is still below its all time highs from 2007.

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In 2009, out went central defender Kolo Toure (another captain: Do we see a pattern here?) and center forward Emmanuel Adebayor, the second-leading goal scorer the year before.

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Consumer staple analyst Wendy Nicholson at Citi did some research and noticed that for the ten years leading up to 2000 beverage stocks had outperformed the broader market in Q4, while in the last ten years that pattern has reversed, and beverage stocks underperformed the market for seven of the ten.

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