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Gavekal Research
Didier Darcet
Apr 30th 2020
Webinar: Modeling Projections For The Covid-19 Epidemic
Gavekal Intelligence Software is collaborating with ETH Zurich and Shenzhen's Southern University of Science & Technology to track the spread of Covid-19. GIS principal Didier Darcet presented the findings in a conversation with Louis Gave
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Louis Gave
Apr 29th 2020
The Kitsune Market (Part II)
Last week, Louis introduced the Kitsune, Japan’s mythical nine-tailed fox, and outlined four tail risks which could upend investment after Covid-19. Today he examines two more important tail risks: that the pandemic might not prove deflationary but inflationary, and the risk that the market’s “don’t fight the Fed” mentality could collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.
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Gavekal Research
Udith Sikand
Apr 28th 2020
Japan's Next Monetary Move
Yesterday, the Bank of Japan attempted to pull another rabbit out of the hat by announcing plans to turbo-charge its already aggressive monetary easing program, ostensibly to help deliver its fiscal stimulus package without roiling the JGB market. Look closer though, and it appears the BoJ’s real goal is to stop the yen from succumbing to fundamental pressures by appreciating.
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Gavekal Research
Tom Miller
Apr 28th 2020
Three Big Questions For India
Under one of the world’s most stringent lockdowns, the prospect that India will be devastated by the coronavirus pandemic is receding, and attention is shifting from saving lives to saving the economy. Tom examines the three big questions hanging over the Indian economy to determine how successful the country's recovery is likely to be.
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Gavekal Research
Louis Gave
Apr 24th 2020
The Kitsune Market
The Kitsune, the mythical Japanese fox which portends a change of fortune, has nine tails. Inspired by the unnatural conditions in markets, Louis has identified nine tail risks which could upend the investment world over the short to medium term. In the first installment of a two-part series, he outlines four tail risks that investors should consider hedging against.
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Gavekal Research
Charles Gave
Apr 23rd 2020
On The Next Banking Crisis
For Charles, the last 100 years has seen three standout banking crises; the 1930s depression in the US, Japan’s post-1990 bust and the slow-motion implosion of the eurozone, which has yet to see a denouement. In this piece, he dusts off one of his favorite frameworks for assessing economic cycles and asks what can be learned from these episodes.
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Gavekal Research
Tom Holland
Apr 23rd 2020
Whale Watching In The Gulf
Gavekal’s dynamite fishing analogy maintains that the biggest impact of a market shock only shows up after a delay, much like the effects of an underwater explosion. First the small fry float to the top, then the mid-size fish. Only much later does the dead whale break surface. After the oil price shock investors are asking if the Saudi riyal's peg to the US dollar could be that whale.
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Gavekal Research
Will Denyer, Louis Gave
Apr 22nd 2020
Webinar: Outlook For The US Economy And Global Markets
In Tuesday's webinar, Will Denyer reviewed the economic situation in the US and suggested how investors should position their portfolios, and Louis Gave presented his global macroeconomic view, taking into account the remarkable developments in the oil market.
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Gavekal Research
Arthur Kroeber
Apr 20th 2020
The Shape Of Things To Come
As the US and Europe prepare to enter their second month of lockdown, the good news is that social controls, where they are imposed, are working. The less good news is that the exit from lockdowns is going to be long and arduous. It is likely that in most major Western nations, economic activity will remain at levels significantly below normal until well into the fall.
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Gavekal Research
Udith Sikand, Vincent Tsui
Apr 17th 2020
Asia Goes Unconventional
China just unveiled a -6.8% year-on-year fall in 1Q20 output and the ricochet effect is being felt beyond its borders. Neighboring economies face shrunken demand and are being forced to ditch fiscal rectitude and other economic orthodoxies. In some cases, monetary responses look a lot like quantitative easing. These emerging economies’ capacity for such action varies greatly.
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Gavekal Research
Arthur Kroeber
Apr 15th 2020
Heading In The Right Direction, Slowly
The Covid-19 epidemic now seems firmly under control in most major economies, and the direction of the disease data is consistently positive. From an infection-control perspective, the outlook is much more positive than when we did our last major review. The path to economic recovery, however, still looks slow and rocky.
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Gavekal Research
Charles Gave
Apr 15th 2020
The Revenge Of The Little Grey Men
There is a strange contradiction in most developed economic systems as they have been driven by freely assembling entrepreneurs who operate on the basis of money, which is the ultimate tool of state coercion. Charles is worried that the private, risk-taking element of our economies may be fully extinguished by responses to the Covid-19 crisis.
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Gavekal Research
Louis Gave
Apr 14th 2020
An Anti-Fragile Beauty Contest
Following the 2008 crisis, the S&P 500 bottomed on March 9 2009. Since then, an investor in physical gold would have gained 82.2% while an investor in 10-year US treasuries would have made gains of 65.6% (with coupons re-invested). But with both assets testing their pre-crisis highs, there are several reasons to believe that gold is now set to outperform structurally.
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Gavekal Research
Arthur Kroeber, Udith Sikand
Apr 10th 2020
Webinar: The Outlook For China And Emerging Markets
Arthur Kroeber spoke on the macro situation in China. Michael Clendenin, principal of Gavekal RedTech, presented their work on consumer sentiment and activity in China. Udith Sikand gave a rundown of what's happening in emerging markets.
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Louis Gave
Apr 09th 2020
New Concerns For A New World
We are in uncharted policy territory. Never before have we seen the kind of GDP contractions now being projected for most OECD countries, and never before have investors had to deal with such extremes of uncertainty. Against this backdrop, Louis attempts to answer 10 of the most burning questions posed by clients about the shape of the post-Covid-19 world.
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Udith Sikand
Apr 08th 2020
The Call Of The Frontier
On Tuesday, Indonesia issued US$4.3bn of foreign currency bonds in maturities as long as 50 years. As emerging economies expand their fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis, others will seek to raise fresh US dollar debt. Udith argues they had better hurry up as there looks to be trouble coming down the pike in the emerging world that could even impact stronger credits.
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Gavekal Research
Charles Gave
Apr 08th 2020
Destroying The Economy To Save It
Remember the American military officer in Vietnam who explained US tactics by saying “it became necessary to destroy the town to save it?” Well in the not too distant future, we may have to accept that our economic policymakers have adopted the same tactics in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Gavekal Research
Charles Gave
Apr 07th 2020
Rearranging The Deckchairs For Profit
When everything is falling apart around you, the urge to do something—anything—becomes irresistible. A good solution is to start rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It may not change the bigger picture, but it keeps you busy and does no harm in the longer term. In this spirit, allow me to suggest a little rearrangement that should do no harm, and could even be very profitable.
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Gavekal Research
Louis Gave
Apr 06th 2020
Waiting For Godot (21st Century Edition)
For years, investors have been waiting for China’s massive accumulation of debt to lead to a “Minsky moment”. Instead, in the Covid-19 crisis it is Western central banks that are blowing out their balance sheets in a desperate attempt to stabilize financial markets and their economies—while Chinese government bonds have proved “anti-fragile”.
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Gavekal Research
Charles Gave
Apr 03rd 2020
Breaking Down An International Liquidity Crisis
These are hard times for the global system as big economies are effectively shuttered and risk appetite craters. The US dollar has surged and many leveraged countries face trouble servicing their debts. As these factors become self-reinforcing, Charles thinks it is worth standing back to assess what is causing what. He does this by explaining the dynamics of an international liquidity crisis and suggests specific investment strategies to handle...