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Heads, Or Tails?
Louis-Vincent Gave
14 Oct 2026
Financial markets face an unusually long list of tail risks, from the sustainability of the AI investment boom and rising bond yields to Europe's fiscal troubles and energy disruptions. Louis considers 12 potential threats, assesses how investors might hedge against them and identifies assets that could perform well regardless of how events unfold. Despite the risks, he sees opportunities in Asian currencies, emerging market bonds, energy stocks and other assets benefiting from shifts in global capital flows.
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The Cost Of Protection
August Gudmundsson, Cedric Gemehl
14 Oct 2026
China appears to have accepted export restraints on hybrid cars in exchange for the European Union dialing down its confrontational trade rhetoric. However, a de-escalation in rhetoric should not be mistaken for a retreat from the protectionist impulse taking hold within the EU. Germany’s hardening stance toward China has brought Berlin closer to Paris and revived the Franco-German axis as a driver of EU policymaking.
Gavekal Dragonomics
How Late Payments Became A Permanent Problem
Andrew Batson, Xiaoxi Zhang
14 Oct 2026
Why is it so hard for China’s big companies to pay their bills on time? The arrears issue has been so severe for so long that it has become a symbol of the quality of China’s business environment. Andrew and Xiaoxi argue that the delays are caused not only by companies who could pay on time but choose not to, but also because after years of sluggish growth, many cannot afford to pay on time.
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Emerging Markets’ Second Balance Sheet
Rohan Daswani
13 Oct 2026
Sovereign wealth funds are shifting from passive repositories of national savings into active investors in domestic economies, with many also borrowing to expand their balance sheets. This could help boost to emerging market growth by financing infrastructure and emerging industries while attracting private capital to invest alongside them. But greater reliance on foreign borrowing and domestic investment also introduces currency mismatches and increases exposure to external shocks, says Rohan, potentially offsetting some of the benefits for investors.
Gavekal Dragonomics
A Speed Limit For EV Development
Ernan Cui
The Other Energy Shock
Wei He
A Two-Track Property Stabilization
Xiaoxi Zhang
An Unbalanced Earnings Cycle
Thomas Gatley
Subsidizing Mortgages
Wei He, Dragonomics Team
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The Curse Of Good Intentions
Udith Sikand
Hedging US Growth Stocks
Tan Kai Xian
China Tour Feedback
Louis-Vincent Gave
Are Yields Rising Too Fast For Banks?
Tan Kai Xian
Webinar: Bond Market Blues
Anatole Kaletsky, Will Denyer, Cedric Gemehl
Gavekal Technologies
Can China Export Its Nuclear Boom?
AJ Cortese
Capitalizing On China’s Data Advantage In AI
Laila Khawaja
Great Tech In Search Of Profits
AJ Cortese, Laila Khawaja
GavekalTech On The Ground: 2026 China Tech Trip Takeaways
Laila Khawaja
Chinese EV Makers’ European Offensive
AJ Cortese
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Why Aren’t Stocks Plunging?
Didier Darcet
Amathia
Didier Darcet
When Asia Revalues…
Didier Darcet
Where Does The Money Go?
Didier Darcet
The Macroeconomics Of AI In Practice
Didier Darcet
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Desperately Seeking An Anchor
Charles Gave, Louis-Vincent Gave
14 Sep 2026
Charles and Louis argue that a new monetary anchor is emerging in Asia, centered on the renminbi, just as Western currencies and bond markets are becoming less reliable stores of value. With most of the world’s excess savings generated in Asia, more capital will stay in the region rather than flow into Western assets, eroding structural support for the US dollar, euro and Western bond markets.
Checking The Boxes
Our short take on the latest news
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Surprise
Takeaway
US existing home sales rose 1.5% MoM to 3.99mn in Sep, versus -3.2% in Aug
Above expected -0.8%
Underlying weakness in housing market to persist amid elevated mortgage rates
US NFIB small business optimism index fell to 97.9 in Sep, versus 98.7 in Aug
Below expected 98.2
Rising operating and financing costs weighing on small business sentiment
China CPI rose 0.9% YoY in Sep, versus 0.8% in Aug
Below expected 1%; PPI rose 5% YoY in Sep, versus 3.8% in Aug; core CPI unchanged at 1% YoY
Weak domestic demand continues to offset input price pressures
Singapore GDP rose 5.4% YoY in 3Q26, versus 6.2% in 2Q
Above expected 5.1%; MAS left policy unchanged
Despite strong growth and upside risks to inflation, MAS content to pause tightening
Test Your Knowledge
What waste product has the US and EU banned or heavily restricted the export of in the last few months, and for which China is easing import restrictions?
- Shredded batteries
- Retired wind turbine blades
- Waste cooking oil
Chart of the Week
So far, India has cushioned the impact of the energy shock by forcing state-owned refiners to bear losses from selling fuel at below-market prices. This strategy will prove unsustainable if oil prices do not fall within the next few months, forcing a choice between higher retail fuel prices and greater fiscal support. Already the inflation outlook is worsening amid fears that a weak monsoon will push up food prices. That could compel the Reserve Bank of India—which earlier this month hiked rates for the first time in three years—to respond more aggressively. That, in turn, may snuff out the nascent recovery in private-sector investment.
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Essential Reading: A Book For Every Week Of The Year
Gavekal is often asked for a recommended reading list. So, here it is: a book a week that everyone interested in the world of macro investing—whether hoary veteran or eager apprentice—can benefit from reading.
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Webinar: Bond Market Blues
Anatole Kaletsky, Will Denyer, Cedric Gemehl
9 Oct 2026
Holders of developed world bonds experienced a world of pain in the third quarter of 2026, with long-dated US treasuries making a loss of -7.6% and equivalent French bonds down almost -15% in US dollar terms. In this webinar, founding partner Anatole Kaletsky, US chief economist Will Denyer and European economist Cedric Gemehl examine the forces driving the brutal sell-off in major debt markets and ask whether the time is approaching for investors to buy bonds once again.
The Iran War And Fallout
The Non-Threatening Energy Crisis
This weekend’s media made for sobering reading. Between bombs flying in the Middle East, more refineries blowing up in Russia and US senators calling for petroleum export bans, it felt like enough negative news flow to send hearts racing. But most major global equity markets remain close to all-time highs. Louis examines the possible reasons for this counterintuitive configuration.
No Good Outcomes For Energy Inflation
It is Wednesday. Warring parties in the Middle East are again exchanging fire, and energy prices are spiking. For investors, it may be tempting to shrug off the latest flare-up, but disregarding the latest escalation in the Persian Gulf would be rash. Developments in the region will matter greatly for the trajectory of inflation over the coming months, and therefore for financial markets.
The Record High Diesel Prices
Because of soaring crack spreads, diesel prices everywhere around the world are making new all-time highs, at least in nominal terms. In real terms, the diesel price is still lower than the 2022 spike that followed the start of the Ukraine war. But Louis points out that with a real term diesel price above US$5/gallon, few good things happen.
The Limits Of Economic Fury
The US administration is now switching its focus to a campaign of “economic fury” in an effort to achieve its strategic aims against Iran. It is not obvious that this latest phase of the conflict is any more likely to result in a quick and easy US victory than the kinetic war. However, the
economic implications of a prolonged stand-off may be less ominous than they at first appear.
US economy & markets
Hedging US Growth Stocks
US growth stocks have proved remarkably resilient, with the MSCI US growth index generally outperforming its value counterpart since 2007. But when everything is going well, prudent investors look for potential pitfalls. So, what could derail the strength of US growth
stocks, and how to hedge against these risks?
Are Yields Rising Too Fast For Banks?
US bank stocks have lagged the broader equity market since the start of September, with the S&P 500 bank index down -7.5% against a 1% gain for the S&P 500. Curiously, this has happened during an inflationary boom, which should favor banks. While higher yields typically benefit lenders by allowing them to charge more on loans and earn higher returns on their securities holdings, a rapid rise in yields can break things and hurt the sector. KX argues there are reasons to think these concerns will prove short-lived.
Are US Long Bonds A Buy? (Part IV)
US bonds face an unappealing near-term backdrop of persistent inflation, Fed tightening and heavy public and private-sector issuance. Yet unlike in 2022, valuations now favor bonds over equities, while rising real yields are approaching levels that could start to constrain capital spending and growth. For Will, this argues against going overweight bonds, but makes a neutral position increasingly attractive as a hedge against a sudden change in the investment environment.
Another Blow For Bonds?
The 10-year US treasury yield broke through the 5% level to hit 5.11%, its highest since the outbreak of the credit crunch in July 2007. With inflation pressure persistent and the Federal Reserve on a tightening track, yields could rise further in the near term. In addition, there are growing signs that the US labor market may be set to tighten, pushing both wage growth and inflation higher.
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Macro Update: Pushed And Pulled
Wei He, Dragonomics Team
3 Aug 2026
China’s economy is being pushed and pulled by two external shocks: the supply shock from the Iran war and the demand shock from the AI capex boom. Both are creating lots of volatility in trade flows, prices and profits, although the underlying trend of the domestic economy has not yet changed much. Neither are China’s policymakers showing much sign of significantly changing course. In our latest quarterly chartbook, Wei and the Dragonomics team diagnose the current situation and the policy outlook.
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India Corporate Update: Waiting For Capex
Rohan Daswani, Udith Sikand
28 Aug 2026
India remains one of the world’s strongest growth stories, supported by resilient domestic demand, improving corporate balance sheets and strong credit growth. Yet as the boost from public infrastructure investment fades, the big question is whether these strengths can finally translate into a sustained revival in private investment. Rohan and Udith assess the prospects for that transition and the implication for Indian equities, where performance is increasingly diverging across sectors.
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Video: Into The Midterms
Will Denyer
7 Oct 2026
With less than four weeks to go before the US midterm elections, the Democratic Party is odds-on to win the House of Representatives and may take control of the Senate too. In this video interview, Gavekal chief US economist Will Denyer looks at what the expected electoral swing to the Democrats is likely to mean for the possibility of impeachment hearings, fiscal policy, tariffs, financial regulation and legislation on artificial intelligence.
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Quarterly Strategy Review: 3Q26
Louis-Vincent Gave
5 Oct 2026
After the third quarter saw a brutal sell-off in major government bond markets, with yields breaking out to a generational high, Louis takes stock. In this Quarterly Strategy Review, he examines the forces driving the sell-off and asks the key questions facing investors everywhere.
Emerging markets
EMs Are The New DMs
Emerging-market bonds have dramatically outperformed their developed-market peers since 2020, helped by greater policy credibility, deeper domestic financial markets and reduced reliance on foreign investors. With DM bond yields now hitting multi-year highs, policymakers may increasingly look to the EM playbook, including softer forms of financial repression, to stabilize their markets, says Udith. From the US to Japan, signs of this shift are already emerging, suggesting that EMs may have a thing or two to teach DMs.
Video: Are EMs Back?
It’s been a good quarter for the broad emerging markets complex. The MSCI EM index has returned almost 7% in US dollar terms, while US equities are down by some -3.5%. So should investors jump on the EM train? Udith points out that there is a wide divergence in the performance of individual emerging markets, and the threat of tariffs hangs heavy over EM corporate earnings. Investors need to be selective.
Video: Southeast Asia Under Trump 2.0
Global investors are rightly focused on the potential losers from the United States pursuing an aggressively protectionist trade policy agenda, but there may be winners as well. Tom went in search of such economies last week. Today he explains how such “swing states” are likely to perform in an intensified period of great power rivalry between the US and China.
China Turbocharges EM Investment
As the rich world pulls up the protectionist drawbridge, investors risk missing a bigger story
in emerging markets. Here, Chinese outbound investment is rebounding after the fallow Covid years, and is driving a new wave of industrialization that promises to lower the cost of the green-energy transition.
Europe's economy
The Cost Of Protection
China appears to have accepted export restraints on hybrid cars in exchange for the European Union dialing down its confrontational trade rhetoric. However, a de-escalation in rhetoric should not be mistaken for a retreat from the protectionist impulse taking hold within the EU. Germany’s hardening stance toward China has brought Berlin closer to Paris and revived the Franco-German axis as a driver of EU policymaking.
Three Tests For French Spreads
After touching 150bp last Friday, October 2, the 10-year OAT-bund spread retraced to 127bp on Tuesday, before widening again to 139bp Thursday. Rather than beginning a meaningful tightening, the spread appears to be undergoing a repricing which is likely to see it settle somewhere between 125bp and 300bp. However, this is a remarkably broad range. So, what forces could push spreads towards either the floor or ceiling of this band over the coming months?
Reasons To Start Buying Bonds
After four and a half years of steadfast bearishness on bonds, Anatole argues that after the latest sell-off, the relentless rise in US yields may be coming to an end—at least for the next year or two. This is not because fundamentals have improved. Rather it is because the bond market no longer trades on fundamentals, but on short term expectations of Federal Reserve policy, and the Fed has a mandate to preserve US government solvency. In this report, he explains why it now makes sense to start buying bonds again.
How Wide Can French Spreads Get?
Over the last three weeks of September, the sovereign yield spread between 10-year French OATs and 10-year German bunds widened 40bp, hitting 127bp on Wednesday. That is a gap last seen in June 2012, just weeks before Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech. Inevitably, therefore, France’s current bond market stresses have evoked memories of the euro crisis, and left investors wondering: just how wide could French spreads get this time around?
Currencies
Important Recent Developments
The Slump In Asian Currencies
A Concentrated Inflationary Boom Or A Bet On The Fed?
Demand And Supply Of Money
Dialing Back Expectations For Appreciation
Monetizing US Budget Deficits
Oil & commodities
No Good Outcomes For Energy Inflation
Video: Towards An Uncertain Winter For Energy
The Quid Pro Quo That Wasn’t
The Energy Risk Remains (Part I)
Energy Markets Are Too Complacent
Video: Oil After Hormuz
