Why are shares of China Southern Airlines up 12% today?
I can't find any news that explains why shares of China Southern Airlines (ZNH) are up 12% today. The entire Chinese market is higher on positive news on the U.S.-China trade talks, but that's been good for gains like 0.56% on JD.Com (JD) and 0.85% on CTRP...
I said I’d sell CTRP on first sign that upward momentum had broken–well, I’m selling today
Yesterday I posted that I would sell Ctrip International.com out of my Jubak Picks portfolio at the first sign that the stock's upward momentum had broken. Well, the New York traded ADS for Ctrip closed down 5.42% today. I think that counts as a break and I'm selling...
After huge bounce on earnings, when is it time to sell China’s CTRP.com?
Way, way back on March 1 I wondered when it would be time to trim some China positions. The Shanghai market as a whole was up more than 14% in the last month. Sure, a potential U.S.-China trade deal offered the chance of a rally on the news, but Wall Street was...
Making Cheniere Energy my #8 pick in my Special Report: 10 stocks for an earnings recession
At the moment everything is running Cheniere Energy's (LNG) way. Â And while natural gas remains a cyclical sector and subject to the ebbs and flows of the global economy, those catalysts are enough for me to make this the #8 pick for my Special Report: 10 stocks for...
Adding JD.Com to my Special Report: 10 Best Buy Stocks for after the Bear–and to my Volatility Portfolio
JD.Com (JD) is my last purely China pick for this list of 10 Best Buy Stocks for after the Bear. The company has increased its share of the business to consumer eCommerce market to 19.5% in 2014 from 17.2% in 2011, according to iResearch. And grown its share of the...
Special Report: 10 Best Buy Stocks for after the bear (or for now if you think the bear is over.)
Is the bear market over? And if it is, what stocks should you target as "best buys." The first is a really, really tough question to answer now. News of new efforts to stimulate economic growth in China helped push the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index over...
China ends its freeze on new game titles–good for Tencent soon-ish
China's media regulators have ended a nine-month freeze on the approval of new video games in the $30 billion Chinese market. Global industry (and Chinese market leader) Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) didn't have a title among the 80 new games approved, but the end of the...
The good news is that bad news was bad enough to bring China’s regulators into the stock market
Stocks rallied today, Friday, after falling hard yesterday. The catalyst for the upswing? Disappointing third quarter GDP growth that was bad enough to bring China's securities regulators into support stocks. The Shanghai Composite index closed up 2.58% today. In the...
Buying Tencent Holdings for my Jubak Picks Portfolio
Today (or tomorrow morning, actually, October 2) I'm adding Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) to my 12-18 month Jubak Picks Portfolio. (The stock is already a member of my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio. As I wrote in my Special Report: 10 Picks for the Emerging Markets bounce,...
China’s Shanghai market has given back all its gains since 2014
Overnight--and that means before the latest saber rattling today from Washington and Beijing--the Shanghai Composite Index dropped another 1.1% to 2651.79. That took the market below the January 2016 bottom of one of the market's worst ever routs. The Shanghai index...
Is the next big tech stock thing, Chinese tech stocks?
There's some evidence that the money that has left big U.S. tech stocks such as Facebook (FB), Netflix (NFLX), Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) on some recent days has been headed into big Chinese tech stocks such as Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), Alibaba (BABA), and...Jim’s Stock Alerts
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