Asia L/S Equity PM/Macro/Thematic Idea Generation

Rikki Malik

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>The prospect of jumbo US rate cuts is juicing asset markets</li>
<li>Overseas Capital is starting to move into domestic Chinese equities</li>
<li>The Precious metals ETFs are breaking out -looking at laggards</li>
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The prospect of jumbo US rate cuts is juicing asset markets
Overseas Capital is starting to move into domestic Chinese equities
The Precious metals ETFs are breaking out -looking at laggards


Overview #32 – International Money Starts to Flow to Chinese Domestic Markets

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<li>A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook</li>
<li>What the dollar bear market rally means for our themes</li>
<li>The domestic Chinese market starts to rally, outperforming in Asia</li>
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A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook
What the dollar bear market rally means for our themes
The domestic Chinese market starts to rally, outperforming in Asia


Overview #31 - China Breaks Out and the USD Has Its Moment

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<li>A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook</li>
<li>Tariff chatter is a sideshow; the real focus should be  on the US Administration’s Fed plans</li>
<li>Non-Chinese miners of rare earths and other strategic minerals will command a steep premium.</li>
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A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook
Tariff chatter is a sideshow; the real focus should be  on the US Administration’s Fed plans
Non-Chinese miners of rare earths and other strategic minerals will command a steep premium.


Overview #30 – the Summer Doldrums-Not! Stage setting for the next phase of the bull market.

Asian Economist

Kok Peng Chan

Macroeconomics

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<li>Despite headlines about BRICS alternatives, gold hoarding, and China's reduced U.S. Treasury holdings, the data shows no structural shift away from the dollar.</li>
<li>A 10% decline in the DXY under six months is not an uncommon  occurence from a longer term perspective.  </li>
<li>The dollar’s weakness is driven by a historically overvalued real effective exchange rate (REER)  and falling oil prices, not a structural decline.</li>
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Despite headlines about BRICS alternatives, gold hoarding, and China's reduced U.S. Treasury holdings, the data shows no structural shift away from the dollar.
A 10% decline in the DXY under six months is not an uncommon  occurence from a longer term perspective.  
The dollar’s weakness is driven by a historically overvalued real effective exchange rate (REER)  and falling oil prices, not a structural decline.


De-Dollarisation Debate : Unmasking USD Over-Valuation

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

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index / Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).</li>
<li>We will maintain our bullish intermediate-term view as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the SPX and ACWI-US are above 5700-5785 and $119-$121.</li>
<li>$125-$126 and $123-$123.50 are short-term supports to watch on ACWI-US; we will maintain our near-term bullish outlook as long as $123 support holds.</li>
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We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).
We will maintain our bullish intermediate-term view as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the SPX and ACWI-US are above 5700-5785 and $119-$121.
$125-$126 and $123-$123.50 are short-term supports to watch on ACWI-US; we will maintain our near-term bullish outlook as long as $123 support holds.


China and Japan Breaking Out -- Buy; Bullish Outlook Intact; U.S. Dollar (DXY) Remains Weak

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Overview #32 – International Money Starts to Flow to Chinese Domestic Markets

A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook. We look at the Chinese breakout and laggards in the precious metal space

Rikki Malik

Overview #31 - China Breaks Out and the USD Has Its Moment

A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook. We look at the Dollar bear market rally and the domestic Chinese market.

Rikki Malik

Overview #30 – the Summer Doldrums-Not! Stage setting for the next phase of the bull market.

A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook. We look at the Fed and the implications of DoD's stake in a rare earth...

Rikki Malik

De-Dollarisation Debate : Unmasking USD Over-Valuation

The de-dollarisation view has run ahead of reality amidst a 10% fall in the DXY and China's declining holdings of US Treasuries. The former is...

Kok Peng Chan

China and Japan Breaking Out -- Buy; Bullish Outlook Intact; U.S. Dollar (DXY) Remains Weak

China's Shanghai Composite and Japan's TOPIX and TOPIX Small indexes Breaking Out -- Buy; Bullish Outlook Intact on global equities $ACWI; U.S....

Vermilion Research

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