European shares march higher as miners rally on fresh trade war hopes
11/15/2018, 9:01:27 AMEuropean shares marched higher on Thursday as oil prices stabilized and mining s... ✔ Basic materials stocks .SXPP, some of the main beneficiaries of easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies, led the pack with a 1.1 percent rise, also buoyed by higher copper and industrial metals prices and a weaker U.S. dollar ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Trump's trade war with China just ended one car manufacturer's incredible 46-month streak
11/15/2018, 8:40:01 AMGeely isn't alone. Car sales in China fell for four months year-over-year; tracking for an annual decline for the first time in nearly three decades. ✔ But its not curtains for Geely yet, although investors have fretted as its Hong Kong-listed shares shed about 50% since this time last year ✔ Geely has a whole bunch of new models in its garage outside Shanghai and that should be more than enough to get it back in the winners circle
Other Countries Hope Restarted U.S.-China Trade Talks Lead to a Resolution
11/15/2018, 1:46:34 PMThe impact of the trade war has caused a significant hit to global GDP. ✔ Exports of goods and services are 19.7% of the Chinese economy, according to the CIA ✔ Slow that process and the country takes a significant hit at a time when its growth has slowed to a low point since the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported ✔ Some estimates put the global GDP impact of the trade war at 1.4% at least, CNBC reported
US and China rivalry for supremacy goes way beyond trade, says founder of world's largest hedge fund
11/15/2018, 3:28:44 PM"History has shown there's a concept called the 'Thucydides Trap'" that indicates conflict, says Ray Dalio, the billionaire Bridgewater founder. ✔ On stage, he expanded on his thoughts on the U.S.-China rivalry ✔ Trump has also threatened additional tariffs of $267 billion, which would basically cover the rest of all Chinese imports into the U.S. CNBC's Fred Imbert contributed to this report
Tencent earnings, bounce for oil help spur Asian stocks
11/15/2018, 11:48:45 AMGaruda gains after Sriwijaya deal while Mahindra drops despite earnings beat ✔ However, in this instance I suspect equity traders will be more focused on the 'a long road that lies ahead' as we can only assume it will be filled with numerous potholes ✔ As part of the agreement, Garuda's low-cost carrier Citilink Indonesia will take over operations at Sriwijaya Air and Nam Air
3M Stock Slips After Guidance Update
11/15/2018, 3:49:17 PMThe industrial giant provided largely in-line numbers the morning of its investor day. 3M is down more than 15% so far this year. ✔ The midpoint of 3M’s guidance puts earnings per share at $10.82 per share on revenue of $33.4 billion in revenue, dovetailing with consensus estimates ✔ The news also comes a day after 3M said its board of directors authorized a new $10 billion share-repurchase plan ✔ Make the Connection Boeing (BA) is one industrial that has been able to fly above the fray
Malaysia, Singapore shares edge up
11/15/2018, 10:56:04 AMAnalysts caution earnings risks, falling crude prices will cap gains ✔ For the STI, the upside is capped by tepid growth prospect, whereas the downside is cushioned by cheap valuation ✔ In earnings news, UMS Holdings lost 3% after the precision engineering firm's third quarter result showed a 44% on-year fall in net profit ✔ The deal was at more than 18% discount to previous closing price
Sime Darby looks at exiting China ports business
11/15/2018, 10:39:12 AMMove in line with non-core asset sales as throughput falls on Sino-US trade row ✔ The divestment is a good way for the company to restructure its business portfolio, said Hong Leong Investment Bank Analyst Daniel Wong ✔ Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has enlisted help from foreign automakers, including Nissan Motor and Toyota Motor, to help drive the project in his attempt to boost the country's engineering and manufacturing capabilities ✔ Shares of Sime Darby fell 0.8% to 2.36 ringgit, while the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI ended 0.3% higher
Futures rise on trade hope, Walmart inches higher after results
11/15/2018, 1:12:06 PMU.S. stock index futures rose on Thursday, as signs that the United States and C... ✔ Banking stocks looked to rebound, with JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) rising 1.6 percent after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) added a $4.02 billion stake in the lender ✔ The rise in U.S. equity futures came even as European markets were hammered as British Prime Minister Theresa May battled to save a draft divorce deal with the European Union after her Brexit secretary and other ministers quit in protest ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
US criticises China’s ‘empire and aggression’ in Asia
11/15/2018, 10:01:01 AMundefined ✔ If no deal is reached, the most likely scenario is that the tariff rate on most of the $250bn of targeted Chinese exports to the US will rise from 10 per cent to 25 per cent in January ✔ At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Papua New Guinea this weekend, Mr Pence is due to unveil details of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy, aimed at providing an alternative to China’s BRI
Property speculation shows signs of cooling off
11/15/2018, 8:37:23 AMundefined ✔ NH NongHyup Bank mortgage loan adviser Roh Joon agreed ✔ According to a recent outlook released by the Asian Development Bank, Korea's economic growth will slow further not only because of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war but also because of the high degree of vulnerability of its housing sector caused by loose credit policies in recent years ✔ Housing prices that have undergone sharp and sudden reversals, empirical studies have shown, tend to be associated with longer and deeper slowdowns
Hong Kong stocks stage afternoon rally on Tencent, A-shares
11/15/2018, 10:12:04 AMCasino operators and property developers join the party after tentative start ✔ The Shanghai gauge had dropped on Wednesday after data released the previous day showed Chinese financial institutions extended less than expected credit in October, raising worries it wasn't enough to stem an economic slowdown ✔ Household appliances company Raymond Industrial rose 3% following an 83.6% increase in its net profit for the first nine months of the year
Natural gas skyrockets as China pledges huge supply boost
11/15/2018, 2:03:18 PMWith an eye on last winter’s natural gas supply debacle, Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC has pledged a 20 percent rise in gas supply, the company said on Tuesday. ✔ Warmer temperatures El Nino, the warming in Pacific Ocean sea-surface temperatures, has emerged and there’s an increased chance of it continuing through the Northern Hemisphere spring, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday ✔ This article was originally published on Oilprice.com Trends: China newsGas news
Thursday Morning Briefing
11/15/2018, 2:24:53 PMA deadly crossing ends migrant's American dream, ✔ The dollar jumped and traders bought into the safe-haven yen after the Brexit deal was plunged into uncertainty, spooking investors across currency markets ✔ China sends response to U.S. trade demands Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Big-name investors favor U.S. equities over rest of world
11/15/2018, 8:10:38 AMU.S. equities will outshine their international counterparts over the coming yea... ✔ stock market vs rest of world in 2018: tmsnrt.rs/2PpOxwq) The October selloff in the U.S. stock market, which erased what had been a nearly 10 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the year-to-date, could leave the U.S. stock market poised for gains in the year ahead, said Byron Wien, vice chairman at Blackstone Advisory Partners
Pence Calls for an Indo-Pacific Region Free of Chinese ‘Aggression’
11/15/2018, 2:28:21 PMVice President Mike Pence hit out at China during his tour through Asia, signaling an increasingly tough line against Beijing as the world’s two largest economies clash over trade, security and human rights. ✔ I hope the U.S. will stop beautifying itself and pointing the finger at others ✔ We expect all of our allies and partners in this effort to fully enforce all U.N ✔ The circumstances may come where Asean may have to choose one or the other ✔ And America and everybody should realize that they are there
4 Stock Picks by an Early Fan of Apple
11/15/2018, 3:49:18 PMEpoch Investment Partners’ David Pearl makes the case for Hexcel, Morgan Stanley, CVS Health, and—yes—the iPhone maker. ✔ Pearl describes himself as more optimistic and more patient than Priest ✔ And during this whole period we’ve owned it, the stock has never been at a premium to the market ✔ Another is Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, by Jonathan Taplin
Analysis | The Finance 202: Infrastructure may be back on the table with a gas tax to pay for it
11/15/2018, 1:51:50 PMBut we've heard all this before. ✔ There needs ‘to be not only changes in the legislation but more enforcement’ if the Trump administration wants votes from Democrats, said New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell, who is positioned to chair the Ways and Means Trade subcommittee, in an interview on Wednesday
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