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A month ago, a downbeat David Einhorn exclaimed "will this market cycle never turn?"

It's 2018 forecast time for the big banks. With Goldman unveiling its seven Top Trades for 2018 earlier, overnight it was also UBS' turn to reveal its price targets for the S&P in the coming year, and not surprisingly, the largest Swiss bank was extremely bullish, so much so in fact that its base case is roughly where Goldman expects the S&P to be some time in the 2020s (at least until David Kostin revises his price forecast shortly).

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,

Despite the down day yesterday, one indicator from the equity options market recorded a massive spike in bullishness.

Just over a month ago, Kyle Bass discussed why he was long effectively "long Greece."