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(Bloomberg) — From rural bank runs to surging consumer indebtedness and an unprecedented bond restructuring, mounting signs of financial stress in China are putting the nation’s policy makers to the test.Xi Jinping’s government faces an increasingly difficult balancing act as it tries to support the world’s second-largest economy without encouraging moral hazard and reckless spending. While authorities have so far been reluctant to rescue troubled borrowers and ramp up stimulus, the costs of maintaining that stance are rising as defaults increase and China’s slowdown deepens.Policy makers are attempting to do the “minimum necessary to keep the economy on the rails,” …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Spotify or Pocket Cast.South Korea’s $145 billion sovereign wealth fund, burned by the sudden shift to market pessimism late in 2018, plans to add to its allocation of bonds and cut shares globally to protect double-digit returns this year.Korea Investment Corp., which was founded in 2005 to invest some of the nation’s foreign-exchange reserves offshore, is turning “slightly defensive” Choi Heenam, its chief executive officer, said in an interview with Bloomberg News.The fund, known as KIC, is echoing a trend …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — China’s once-in-a-generation car slump is hobbling carmakers around the globe that placed their bets on what is the world’s biggest auto market. But one group is weathering the slowdown unscathed: Japan.Iconic car companies like Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. are increasing sales in a market that has fallen almost every month since June 2018. They’re doing it by targeting what’s proven to be a sweet spot in the faltering market — demand for hybrid gasoline-electric cars. Japanese automakers are leaders in the technology, which appeals to Chinese consumers keen to heed the government push toward new-energy …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is starting to overtake China in the trade war, at least in financial markets.Treasuries have held on to this year’s rally, the dollar remains strong despite three interest-rate cuts and U.S. stocks have been notching a string of records. Meanwhile, Chinese shares, the yuan and the country’s government bonds have recently struggled to find momentum.The outperformance has been especially notable in the past months, with the S&P 500 Index trading at its priciest multiple ever relative to the Shanghai Composite Index.It highlights the diverging forces driving sentiment in the countries’ financial markets: the Federal Reserve’s dovish …read more […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company already received 250,000 pre-orders for its brand-new cybertruck, but the real question is: how many of these pre-orders will translate into real sales …read more […]

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Today, we’ll introduce the concept of the P/E ratio for those who are learning about investing. We’ll look at The… …read more […]

Although the masses and most of the financial media blame hedge funds for their exorbitant fee structure and disappointing performance, these investors have proved to have great stock picking abilities over the years (that’s why their assets under management continue to swell). We believe hedge fund sentiment should serve as a crucial tool of an […] …read more […]

Many investors, including Paul Tudor Jones or Stan Druckenmiller, have been saying before last year’s Q4 market crash that the stock market is overvalued due to a low interest rate environment that leads to companies swapping their equity for debt and focusing mostly on short-term performance such as beating the quarterly earnings estimates. In the […] …read more […]

After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from nearly 750 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track at Insider Monkey, which disclosed those firms’ equity portfolios as of September 30th. The results of that effort will be put on display in this article, as […] …read more […]