Japan Specialist

Mark Chadwick

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The Nikkei was down -0.8% last week (-4% YTD) while the yen weakened 1.9% to 140/$</li>
<li>The yen declined to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1998 on strength in the US jobs market</li>
<li>Japan revised guidelines for overseas tourists in preparation for a further reopening of the border</li>
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The Nikkei was down -0.8% last week (-4% YTD) while the yen weakened 1.9% to 140/$
The yen declined to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1998 on strength in the US jobs market
Japan revised guidelines for overseas tourists in preparation for a further reopening of the border


Japan Weekly | Tourism Winners and Semicon Losers

Market Intelligence, ORTEX

ORTEX Market Intel

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Equity Bottom-Up

Horizon Quantum Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Short sellers were active the week of July 13.</li><li>Borrow costs exploded on several names, led by a leveraged ETF tracking Micron hitting 441% of float.</li><li>Earnings season drove positioning on both sides - bears loaded up on some names while covering hard on others.</li></ul>

Short sellers were active the week of July 13.Borrow costs exploded on several names, led by a leveraged ETF tracking Micron hitting 441% of float.Earnings season drove positioning on both sides - bears loaded up on some names while covering hard on others.

Bears Build Into Earnings Season: Short Interest Spikes Across Small Caps

President

Thomas Coughlin

Coughlin Associates

HDDs for nearline storage showed considerable capacity growth between C4Q 2020 and C1Q 2021 with significant increases in average storage capacity per drive.  Average sales prices also were higher due to the sale of more high-capacity HDDs.  Market share between the three HDD manufacturers was little changed Q2Q.  HDDs remain the major storage media for the world’s digital content.

HDDs for nearline storage showed considerable capacity growth between C4Q 2020 and C1Q 2021 with significant increases in average storage capacity per drive.  Average sales prices also were higher due to the sale of more high-capacity HDDs.  Market share between the three HDD manufacturers was little changed Q2Q.  HDDs remain the major storage media for the world’s digital content.

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

We are beginning to see early signs of rotations back into more risk-on areas of the equity market -- a bullish sign for the broad market. Short-term outperformance and constructive consolidation/bottoming patterns are evident within biotech (IBB, XBI), small- and micro-caps (IWM, IWC), and emerging markets (EEM). This only adds to our positive outlook for the weeks and months ahead; continue to buy pullbacks.

We are beginning to see early signs of rotations back into more risk-on areas of the equity market -- a bullish sign for the broad market. Short-term outperformance and constructive consolidation/bottoming patterns are evident within biotech (IBB, XBI), small- and micro-caps (IWM, IWC), and emerging markets (EEM). This only adds to our positive outlook for the weeks and months ahead; continue to buy pullbacks.

U.S. Equity Strategy: Risk-On Rotations Vs. Weaker Seasonality; Russell 2000, Biotech, EM Improving

Market dynamics have deteriorated and are now much more mixed overall. Deteriorating signals include RS improvement for defensive Sectors, RS deterioration for small-caps, and the US dollar breaking above 92. Despite this mild deterioration in market dynamics, there are plenty of indicators that remain positive. This tells us any weakness should be treated as a buying opportunity and our outlook remains constructive for the months ahead.

Market dynamics have deteriorated and are now much more mixed overall. Deteriorating signals include RS improvement for defensive Sectors, RS deterioration for small-caps, and the US dollar breaking above 92. Despite this mild deterioration in market dynamics, there are plenty of indicators that remain positive. This tells us any weakness should be treated as a buying opportunity and our outlook remains constructive for the months ahead.

United States

Seagate Technology Holdings Public Limited Company offers computer hardware products. The Company designs, manufactures, and markets hard disk drives for enterprise applications, client compute applications, client non-compute applications, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems and digital media systems.

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Japan Weekly | Tourism Winners and Semicon Losers

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Mark Chadwick

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Short sellers were active the week of July 13. Borrow costs exploded on several names, led by a leveraged ETF tracking Micron hitting 441% of...

ORTEX Market Intel

HDD C1Q Total Down but Nearline Up

HDDs for nearline storage showed considerable capacity growth between C4Q 2020 and C1Q 2021 with significant increases in average storage capacity...

Thomas Coughlin

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We are seeing signs of rotations back into more risk-on areas of the equity market -- a bullish sign for the broad market. Add to biotech, small-...

Vermilion Research

Upgrading U.S. Staples To Market Weight

Despite mild deterioration in market dynamics, there are plenty of indicators that remain positive and our outlook remains constructive for the...

Vermilion Research

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