New regulation in Chinese e-commerce, payments, delivery platforms, music publishing, education, property services etc. wipes out $600B in market cap & counting.
Less obvious narrative: improving Chinese consumer protection. Transferring wealth back to the consumer.
Thoughts?
Silly question (or maybe not). With Bongbong Marcos set to become Philippine President, how would the administration commemorate the Feb 25 EDSA People Power holiday? Kinda awkward no?
#Halalan2022
#Eleksyon2022
Virus recoveries have gone up by 150k over just the last two weeks. This time last month confirmed cases globally were at 100k; we're now pushing 1.3m.
Considering the time lag + rate of recovery, the number of people who become well is likely about to surge too.
Something big is taking place in India ๐ฎ๐ณ
HSBCโs Fred Neumann has been covering Asia for decades. Whatโs happening in India is one of the most exciting things he's seen.
Must watch.
If you're complaining about getting locked in, think about the 60 million people in Wuhan. They've been locked in for close to 2 months. You're probably a few weeks in, max. You'll be fine.
#COVID19
BREAKING: China will lift Wuhan lockdown at
#coronavirus
epicenter on April 8th. ~60 million have been locked down since Jan 23 in Hubei. Transportation will resume. This is after new official cases in Hubei dropped to zero days ago
@quicktake
#COVID19
Shares of Japanese bank Aozora are collapsing. Stock's on steepest 2-day drop since it became a public company.
Why? Bank reported massive exposure to US commercial real estate.
BOOM. JUST IN: Japan has confirmed it has DIRECTLY INTERVENED in the currency markets to halt the yen's slide.
This is the FIRST TIME in 24 years Japan has done this since it sold dollars at the height of the Asian financial crisis.
Yen stronger. Let's see for how long
Unbelievable.
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google combined are now bigger than JAPAN'S ENTIRE STOCK MARKET. In other words, these 4 alone would be enough to create the world's third biggest stock market (behind the U.S. and China).
GAAAAHHHH
Fed cuts rates next year?
A rate CUT has now appeared on the eurodollar curve between June and December NEXT YEAR. Curve's turned negative a week before the Fed even delivers the first hike.
You've probably heard Chinese stocks are cheap. This chart takes that to a whole new level.
The Hang Seng Index's P/E is now below the Nasdaq's P/B. Those two valuation ratios should not even be anywhere close one another.
Pretty wild.
Hong Kong released its latest population data and the drop is just a STUNNING visual on a chart.
Check out rate of change going back to the 1960s. This is a record decline and it's not even close.
If recent history is any guide, this yield surge in T-Bills is a precursor to disaster for the S&P 500.
US 6M T-Bill yields are currently 3X the SPX dividend yield. The last two instances the gap was comparatively wide, the S&P 500 crashed 50% over the next 2 years.
Just saying
The US 2Y treasury posted a 3-SIGMA MOVE, EACH DAY, SEVERAL TIMES IN A ROW.
Statistical odds: Once every 50+ million years. This week's volatility predates most dinosaurs (assuming they traded treasuries). And that's not an exaggeration.
Math by
@DRBCurtis
Hong Kong Disneyland will shut after about 100 cases these past three days.
Florida's Disney World is open as state reports 37,000 cases over three days.
To say the difference in the virus response is stark is an understatement.
Breaking News: Bloomberg has learned Chinese officials are considering a market rescue package in the order of $280B. Markets responding nicely initially.
Details to follow. Stand by.
Quite possibly the craziest chart I've ever made.
On average around 50,000 people from China's Hubei province visit Macau every month. That number fell to 4 in February. Not 4 thousand. 4 people
#COVID19
This could be a strong sign of a bottom in Hong Kong markets.
The index's P/B is now at a level that preceded the three biggest rallies (81%, 43%, 55%) over the last decade.
WILD morning in Chinese markets.
CSI 1000 was down nearly 9% at one point. Gauge is off 6.8% at the break. The more broadly tracker indexes CSI 300, HSI, HSTECH reversed most losses in the morning
Japan's stock market is a good day away from returning to 1989 highs.
To give the younger generation a sense of how much a throwback this is, Taylor Swift was 16 days old when this market peaked and the bubble burst.
In some way, this chart is 1989.
Mutation alert.
Malaysia has detected a strain of the new coronavirus thatโs been found to be 10 times more infectious.
The strain was also found in another cluster involving people returning from the Philippines.
Drawdown in Russiaโs stock market visualised. As of right now, the drawdown has surpassed drops during the pandemic & annexation of Crimea
Blue: Now
Purple: Pandemic
Green: Crimea
Yellow: GFC
Nvidia is within single digits now of becoming the world's most valuable company $NVDA
โข5% away from Apple
โข6% away from Canada (lol)
โข9% away from Microsoft
You guys wanna see something weird? Check out these massive crowds as hundreds of millions of people travelled across China during golden week.
Every city in China is now designated low risk as far as virus is concerned.
Kinda insane.
Extremely short-dated Treasury BILLS now offer MORE yield than riskier corporate bonds & 3X more than the current S&P 500 dividend yield.
Maybe talk to your bank instead of your broker.
And there it is. The Fed's first rate CUT has now appeared on the eurodollar curve. 2024-2025 just inverted.
H/T to the fantastic
@EddBolingbroke
for this
Youโve probably heard โIndia is expensiveโ. Just how much more expensive, see below
Trading at a massive premium to other peers, particularly in EM and Asia Pac. Comparatively to China, it's trading at 130% premium to MSCI China (based on 12-month forward P/E)
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan say Adani bonds now offer value.
A crisis of confidence does NOT necessarily translate into a liquidity/solvency crisis. But when/if it does, it happens pretty quickly.
I had a look at the Adani Groupโs debt profile. Hereโs a short take.
Wow. Looks like Beijing just called the bottom.
Shanghai Comp +3%
CSI 300 +3.8%
Hang Seng Index 5.8%
MSCI China +7.7%
Hang China China Ent. Index +8.3%
Hang Seng Tech Index +15%
Xinhua reporting Chinaโs State Council vows market support. Things just got really interesting.
JUST OUT: Strong response from Hindenburg to Adani rebuttal.
โWe also believe Indiaโs future is being held back by the Adani Group, which has draped itself in the Indian flag while systematically looting the nation.โ
Wow
This global bond selloff is relentless. Australia's 30-year borrowing costs are about to hit 5%.
Forget about the RBA today, this is your big market story.
Breaking News: Bank of Japan keeps policy unchanged. Market was positioned for some change.
Hereโs what you need to know. Risk assets ๐
Sound on ๐