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Impending Acquisition by National Bank: <a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/canadian-western-bank">Canadian Western Bank</a> is set to be acquired by National Bank of Canada in a deal expected to close in early 2025. This transaction will significantly alter CWB's standalone growth trajectory and strategic direction, integrating it into a larger, more diversified national institution.</li>
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Niche Focus on Business Owners: CWB has historically differentiated itself by focusing on the financial needs of small and medium-sized business owners, offering personalized service and specialized expertise in sectors like commercial real estate, construction, and equipment financing.</li>
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Geographic Concentration and Diversification Efforts: Traditionally concentrated in Western Canada, CWB has been actively expanding its presence in Ontario and other eastern provinces to diversify its loan portfolio and reduce reliance on the cyclical Western Canadian economy. The acquisition by Quebec-based National Bank will dramatically accelerate this geographic diversification.</li>
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Impending Acquisition by National Bank: Canadian Western Bank is set to be acquired by National Bank of Canada in a deal expected to close in early 2025. This transaction will significantly alter CWB's standalone growth trajectory and strategic direction, integrating it into a larger, more diversified national institution.
  
Niche Focus on Business Owners: CWB has historically differentiated itself by focusing on the financial needs of small and medium-sized business owners, offering personalized service and specialized expertise in sectors like commercial real estate, construction, and equipment financing.
  
Geographic Concentration and Diversification Efforts: Traditionally concentrated in Western Canada, CWB has been actively expanding its presence in Ontario and other eastern provinces to diversify its loan portfolio and reduce reliance on the cyclical Western Canadian economy. The acquisition by Quebec-based National Bank will dramatically accelerate this geographic diversification.
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Primer: Canadian Western Bank (CWB CN) - Oct 2025

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

iShares MSCI ACWI ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>With the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) approaching the top-end of our expected 2023 trading range at $93, we see limited upside from here, and we believe caution is warranted.</li>
<li>We want to remain overweight Europe and the UK, but we prefer to buy only on pullbacks.</li>
<li>The Hang Seng and MSCI China (MCHI-US) are both getting rejected at their important resistances discussed last week, and we would expect to see a basing process develop below resistance.</li>
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With the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) approaching the top-end of our expected 2023 trading range at $93, we see limited upside from here, and we believe caution is warranted.
We want to remain overweight Europe and the UK, but we prefer to buy only on pullbacks.
The Hang Seng and MSCI China (MCHI-US) are both getting rejected at their important resistances discussed last week, and we would expect to see a basing process develop below resistance.


Caution Warranted; ACWI-US At $93 Resistance; Buys in Communications, Staples, Materials, Financials

Canada

Canadian Western Bank is a Schedule I chartered bank which operates in western Canada. The Bank provides commercial loans, energy loans, construction and real estate project financing, and industrial equipment financing. Canadian Western's retail services include a variety of mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit products.

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Primer: Canadian Western Bank (CWB CN) - Oct 2025

Impending Acquisition by National Bank: Canadian Western Bank is set to be acquired by National Bank of Canada in a deal expected to close in...

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Caution Warranted; ACWI-US At $93 Resistance; Buys in Communications, Staples, Materials, Financials

With the MSCI $ACWI approaching the top-end of our expected 2023 trading range at $93, we see limited upside from here and believe caution is...

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