April 19th, 2020, 4:53 PM
I'm buying Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) on prospects for a China rally and on a gradual return of consumer confidence in China. The company, backed by Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), said that its food delivery business began to recover in March, when shuttered restaurants re-opened and as Chinese consumers slowly got over fears that delivery workers might […]
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April 17th, 2020, 4:57 PM
In my recent post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do something that will cost us money since we'll be late […]
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April 17th, 2020, 2:22 PM
China's gross domestic product contracted by 6.8% from a year ago in the first quarter. Economists had projected a 6.0% drop. The decline was the worst since the government began releasing quarterly GDP numbers in 1992. Other numbers in today's data dump were equally grim. Retail sales fell 15.8%. Investment in fixed assets was down […]
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February 26th, 2020, 4:59 PM
It was less obvious today when there were other splashes of green among global stocks. But on Monday and Tuesday, the trend was readily apparent since so few stocks moved up on those days and so much of the market was colored a bright red. Oddly enough some China stocks were in the green on […]
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February 4th, 2020, 2:16 PM
As of 1 p.m. in New York the Standard & Poor's 500 was up 1.61% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.59%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed 1.94% and the Russell 2000 small cap index had gained 1.68%. Overseas the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) had moved up by 2.87%. Overnight the […]
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February 3rd, 2020, 3:47 PM
Selling in Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares, which trade on those two mainland China exchanges with limits on overseas ownership, drove prices on those two exchanges lower today with the Shanghai Composite down 7.72% and Shenzhen A shares down 8.41% at the close. This was the first day of trading on those markets since they […]
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