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Chinese Equities: Decent Odds Of An Intervention-Driven Bounce
Chinese domestic stocks have fared quite poorly over the past year. Since late-January 2023, the Shanghai Shenzhen 300 index fell roughly 24% to last week’s low, driven by ongoing weakness in China’s economy and a steady and ongoing collapse in investor…
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US Industrial Policy: 1940 Redux
According to BCA Research’s Commodity & Energy Strategy service, the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) first-ever industrial policy – dubbed the National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) – is attempting to reverse post-Cold War decline in the DoD’s…
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Deflationary Pressures Are Dampening Chinese Industrial Profits
China’s industrial profits registered their second consecutive annual contraction last year, falling by 2.3% in 2023. The full year contraction comes despite a surge in industrial profits near year-end. Profit growth came in at 16.8% y/y in December…
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China's PSL Relaunch: A Game Changer?
According to BCA Research’s China Investment Strategy service, the current Pledged Supplementary Lending (PSL) program will provide much less support to the housing market and construction activity than the 2015-2018 program. China’s central bank…
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Brazil’s Central Bank Is Being Politicized
The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has cut the Selic rate by 50 basis points in each of the past four meetings and has alluded to maintaining this size of cuts for the coming meetings. Governor Roberto Campos Neto stated last month that he aims to bring…
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Iowa Caucus: So What?

The market will eventually be forced to react to rising odds of a sharp US national policy reversal. Investors should overweight government bonds and defensive equity sectors.

US Political Strategy by Matt Gertken
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Industrials: Revisiting The Trifecta

The US manufacturing renaissance, spurred on by reshoring, automation, and government spending, is running its course but progress has slowed on the back of tight monetary conditions and the manufacturing recession. The deceleration of these positive trends weighs on the outlook for the Capital Goods industry group, impeding its performance over the short term. However, we reiterate that positive long-term trends for the industry remain intact. We downgrade Capital Goods to a tactical underweight. It remains a strategic overweight.

US Equity Strategy by Irene Tunkel, Guy Russell
PBoC Unexpectedly Holds Medium-Term Rate Steady
China’s central bank unexpectedly held the medium-term policy rate unchanged at 2.5% on Monday, surprising expectations of a 10 basis point cut. Given that deflationary forces dominate China’s economy, the decision to stand pat underscores that policymakers…
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Chinese Private Sector Credit Demand Remains Weak
Chinese credit dynamics remain muted with the expansion in total social financing easing from 2.45 trillion yuan to 1.94 trillion yuan in December, below expectations of a tamer slowdown to 2.16 trillion yuan. Loan growth also disappointed, with the 1.17…
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Geopolitical Charts To Kick Off 2024

The market’s pricing of a soft landing means that geopolitical risks are becoming more, not less, relevant in 2024. US domestic divisions will invite challenges as foreign powers rightly fear that US policy will turn more hawkish after the election.

Geopolitical Strategy by Matt Gertken

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