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JPMorgan: Trade War to Hurt China Stocks

10/5/2018, 6:33:57 PM
Analysts say a “full-blown trade war” is in the cards for 2019. ✔ Higher tariffs are squeezing Chinese manufacturing’s profit margin, reducing the investment incentive and hiring, which would then drag on consumption via reduced income ✔ Their cautious call comes after similar ones this year from Morgan Stanley , Nomura Holdings Inc


Einhorn's Greenlight exits Apple on U.S.-China trade war fears

10/5/2018, 5:26:18 PM
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital sold its remaining shares of Apple Inc o... ✔ FILE PHOTO: David Einhorn, President of Greenlight Capital, Inc., presents during the 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., April 23, 2018 ✔ The company’s shares were down 2 percent at $223.43 on Friday ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Nasdaq down 2% as tech sell-off intensifies

10/5/2018, 6:00:55 PM
undefined ✔ The sell-off in technology shares deepened on Friday, with heavy falls for some of the most popular names in the sector pushing the Nasdaq Composite down by as much as 2 per cent ✔ The sharp declines in the tech sector also weighed on the wider stock market


China's cyber-spying 'keeps a lot of US tech CEOs up at night'

10/5/2018, 4:16:38 PM
A Bloomberg report alleges China slipped tiny spy chips into computer hardware from a firm called Super Micro, which supplied Amazon and Apple. The companies denied the report, but threat of Chinese cyberespionage is keeping tech CEOs up at night. ✔ A report on Thursday that the Chinese government snuck a pencil tip–size spy chip into equipment from an Amazon and Apple component supplier called Super Micro was explosive, but experts say it isn't surprising: U.S. technology CEOs have been concerned about the risk of Chinese cyberespionage for years ✔ Morgan released a report predicting a full-on trade war between the U.S. and China was its base-case scenario for 2019, though it predicted dire consequences for China's stock market


Furious China HITS BACK at Mike Pence allegations as US tensions reach boiling point

10/5/2018, 5:49:18 PM
CHINA has reacted furiously to allegations it was trying to undermine Donald Trump by meddling in next month’s crunch mid-term elections. ✔ It acknowledged Washington had been critical of aspects of Chinese policies in the past but said this was the first time a senior official had delivered a broadside against China across such an extensive array of issues ✔ The last 30 years we've been living and breathing globalisation as if it's an inevitable force


Why the Australian dollar is the big loser in U.S.-China trade spat

10/5/2018, 4:53:23 PM
As trade tensions between the U.S. and China escalate, the Australian dollar has become one of the biggest losers. ✔ Australian exports: 2016 Read: 5 things about a U.S.-China trade war that might surprise investors Furthermore, as emerging market currencies tumble to record lows, traders are turning to the Aussie to express bearish emerging-markets views ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment


China 'spy chips' rattle global data center supply chain

10/5/2018, 7:24:22 PM
Apple and Amazon reject allegations, but industry on alert for vulnerabilities ✔ These changes could be any tiny tweak to the design and layout of the motherboard, he added ✔ Inventec, a supplier to PC makers Dell and HP, also expanded its capacity for motherboards used in servers in its Taiwan facility to counter the additional tariffs risks


U.S. job growth cools; unemployment rate drops to 3.7 percent

10/5/2018, 4:36:27 PM
U.S. job growth slowed sharply in September likely as Hurricane Florence depress... ✔ Average hourly earnings increased 0.3 percent in September after a similar rise in August ✔ People wait in line at a stand during the Executive Branch Job Fair hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2018 ✔ The standard measures just don’t reflect those increases well, if at all ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Analysis | Mike Pence, and the Trump administration’s complicity in downplaying Russian election interference

10/5/2018, 5:13:11 PM
In a speech Thursday, he said China's election interference is worse than Russia's. The administration still hasn't substantiated this claim. ✔ And that impression is always: It wasn’t that big a deal ✔ First, it’s entirely possible there is something the Trump administration and the intelligence community hasn’t told us about alleged Chinese election interference ✔ Absent that, this looks like the latest effort to muddy the waters


Small-Stock Managers Still Top the Charts

10/5/2018, 7:54:05 PM
Winners’ Circle: Our 12-month winner, Alex Ely of Delaware Smid Cap Fund (up 58.7%), sees opportunities as many industries undergo upheavals. ✔ WINNER: Alex Ely, +58.7% for the 12 months I haven’t been nearly optimistic enoughthat’s been my problem, says Alex Ely ✔ He also notes that small stocks have already endured one bear market, at least on a relative basis, lagging far behind the S&P 500 in 2015 and 2016


What China Should Learn From NAFTA

10/5/2018, 4:18:17 PM
The outcome of new negotiations for America’s most significant trade deals – now known as USMCA – yields deep lessons for Beijing. ✔ The successful renegotiation the U.S., Canada and Mexico will affect how Washington and Beijing approach new economic relationships.(AFP/Getty Images) Now that the White House has claimed a victory in renegotiating NAFTA – rebranded as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA –President Donald Trump is once again eyeing China, ramping up his rhetoric about tariffs and trade as the two countries prepare to forge new economic relationships ✔ And it comes down to whether China is competing with the U.S. unfairly and putting undue influence on either our political system or making the Asia-Pacific region less secure through its military actions and rhetorical policy


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