In today’s briefing:
- Ohayo Japan | Treasury Yields Hit Highest Level Since 2007
- VI (Volatility Interruption) Mechanisms Surge in the KRX’s New After Hours Market Launch
- Singapore Market Roundup (15-Sep-2026): CGS International sets All-Link Air & Sea target at 92
- Ares 4bn Logistics Fund: How Japan’s 2024 Shock Creates Generational Real Estate Yields
- Quantedge Up 42% as the 2026 Hedge Fund Spread Narrows to 57 Points
- Silicon Data Appoints Syntax Data As Independent Index Calculation Agent, Advancing Institutional In
- UK Energy Shock Nears 2022 Footprint As Broader Inflation Stays Subdued
- Asia Real Estate Tracker (15-Sep-2026): Rava buys Peninsula Private Hospital for $208M.
Ohayo Japan | Treasury Yields Hit Highest Level Since 2007
- US stocks closed lower on Tuesday, pressured by a rise in Treasury yields (10-year briefly above 5%, highest since 2007)
- Crude rallied on supply disruptions in Libya and Saudi Arabia, with WTI and Brent nearing session highs as markets monitored US-Iran tensions and broader supply risks.
- Chip stocks partially recovered from Monday’s AI-related selling (e.g., Nvidia +0.6% edged higher; AMD +2.1% gained more noticeably).
VI (Volatility Interruption) Mechanisms Surge in the KRX’s New After Hours Market Launch
- In this insight, I discuss the launch of Korea Exchange’s new after hours market and the positive impact it could have on several leading local brokers.
- Korea Exchange (KRX) officially launched the real time after-hours trading market on 14 September. This new platform operates from 4 PM to 8PM KST.
- Given that the retail local investors dominate the KRX after hours market with more than 90% share, this would positively impact Kiwoom Securities, in particular.
Singapore Market Roundup (15-Sep-2026): CGS International sets All-Link Air & Sea target at 92
- CGS International starts coverage of All-Link Air & Sea with a 92-cent target.
- DBS lowers target price for UltraGreen.ai to 65 US cents.
- SAC Capital lowers ISOTeam target price to 7.1 cents after FY2026 miss.
Ares 4bn Logistics Fund: How Japan’s 2024 Shock Creates Generational Real Estate Yields
- Supply Chain Shock: Japan’s 960-hour truck driver overtime cap slashes transport capacity by 14%, triggering a structural rewiring and fierce demand for automated, institutional-grade logistics facilities.
- Institutional Conviction: Ares Management’s 612 bn JPY fundraise validates this thesis, weaponizing foreign capital to exploit Japan’s persistent yield arbitrage and intensifying metropolitan land acquisition wars.
- Incumbent Advantage: Listed incumbents like Nippon Prologis and Mitsui Fudosan Logistics Park offer deep NAV discounts, bypassing soaring construction costs while capturing immense, inflation-beating rent growth.
Quantedge Up 42% as the 2026 Hedge Fund Spread Narrows to 57 Points
- The gap between the year’s best and worst hedge fund has been narrowing all summer.
- This week it stands at 57.24 percentage points: Quantedge Global Fund at plus 42.45 percent on one end, Saba Capital’s carry-neutral tail hedge at -14.79 percent on the other.
- In late June it was 80.85 points.
Silicon Data Appoints Syntax Data As Independent Index Calculation Agent, Advancing Institutional In
- Silicon Data , the independent data and transparency layer for the compute economy, and Syntax Data , an institutional index provider and financial data and technology company, today announced that Syntax has been appointed index calculation agent for Silicon Data’s benchmark index family covering GPU and AI infrastructure markets.
- The appointment brings independent, third-party calculation to a set of benchmarks that increasingly serve as reference rates for a new asset class.
- Compute – the processing power required to train and run AI models – has historically traded through bilateral, opaque, and highly fragmented arrangements, with pricing that varies materially across providers, regions, hardware generations, and contract structures.
UK Energy Shock Nears 2022 Footprint As Broader Inflation Stays Subdued
- LONDON, 14 September 2026 – Britain’s latest energy shock has reached almost the same concentration in the inflation signal as the shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but has so far produced a very different pattern across the wider economy, according to new analysis from Permutable .
- Research using Permutable’s Global Macro Sentiment Indices (GMSI) shows energy accounted for 42.1% of the absolute UK inflation signal on 9 September 2026, compared with 42.7% on the same date in 2022.
- The two episodes produce a similar headline reading, but for very different reasons.
Asia Real Estate Tracker (15-Sep-2026): Rava buys Peninsula Private Hospital for $208M.
- Rava has successfully acquired Peninsula Private Hospital from Australian Unity for a total of $208 million.
- Blackstone’s Horizon has reported a significant 36% increase in EBITDA and a notable reduction in losses post-IPO in India.
- NFD Korea has begun construction on a substantial 300MW AI data center campus located in Danjin, South Korea.
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