In today’s briefing:
- Ohayo Japan | Stocks Slide as Higher Oil Prices and Yields Pressure Risk Appetite
- Tencent/Netease: Zero Game Approval Despite New High in Approved Games
- Markets Alert: The Everything-Is-Fine Rally vs Is Armageddon Around The Corner?
- Exencial Morning Charts – 01-09-2026
- Exencial Filings – 01-09-2026
- Exencial Industry Tidings – 01-09-2026
Ohayo Japan | Stocks Slide as Higher Oil Prices and Yields Pressure Risk Appetite
- Stocks closed lower, with most sectors in the red. Consumer Discretionary lagged as Amazon and Tesla fell
- Crude surged as Middle East hostilities escalated. WTI peaked at $90.68/bbl
- Dell Technologies (+8% after hours): Q2 FY2027 revenue rose 58% YoY to $47 billion
Tencent/Netease: Zero Game Approval Despite New High in Approved Games
- China announced game approval for the August batch. The number of games approved remained at a higher level than in 2023 and 2024.
- The pace of China game approval appears to have accelerated to the same level as pre-tightening.
- None of the companies that we are monitoring got approval.
Markets Alert: The Everything-Is-Fine Rally vs Is Armageddon Around The Corner?
- Look at the tape. The S&P 500 sits less than 1% from an all-time high, the Nasdaq is within about 3% of its own record while Europe breaks records on a weekly basis.
- On the surface, everything is fine. Now look underneath.
- Korea has crashed by 27% while Brazil had fallen 16% before rebounding slightly this past week.
Exencial Morning Charts – 01-09-2026
- Long term FPIs took 93.1 percent of this year’s foreign inflows, and India’s valuation premium over peers fell to a 2018 low.
- US debt keeps climbing while the rate to fund it stays high
- US debt keeps climbing while the rate to fund it stays high
Exencial Filings – 01-09-2026
- The heaviest legal numbers split between a win and a stack of demands
- The largest raise hid in the procedural bucket, and AI capex showed up
- AGM season filled the tape with dividends and board churn
Exencial Industry Tidings – 01-09-2026
- Project completions in non-financial industry falls to Rs.2.4 trillion in June 2026 quarter
- Govt rejects requests from biscuit makers seeking more time to clear excess sugar stocks
- Indian refiners to divert 0.3 mt of sugar exports to domestic market
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