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Daily Brief Credit: Morning Views Asia: China SCE and more

By | Credit, Daily Briefs

In today’s briefing:

  • Morning Views Asia: China SCE, China Vanke, Country Garden Holdings Co, Tata Motors ADR

Morning Views Asia: China SCE, China Vanke, Country Garden Holdings Co, Tata Motors ADR

By Charles Macgregor

Lucror Analytics Morning Views comprise our fundamental credit analysis, opinions and trade recommendations on high yield issuers in the region, based on key company-specific developments in the past 24 hours. Our Morning Views include a section with a brief market commentary, key market indicators and a macroeconomic and corporate event calendar.


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Daily Brief Australia: Link Administration and more

By | Australia, Daily Briefs

In today’s briefing:

  • Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG

Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG

By Arun George


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Daily Brief Event-Driven: TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour) and more

By | Daily Briefs, Event-Driven

In today’s briefing:

  • TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)
  • MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact
  • Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG
  • SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact
  • EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades
  • Merger Arb Mondays (10 Oct) – Lifestyle, Yashili, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, DTAC/True, Nearmap, PTB

TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)

By Travis Lundy

  • As a follow-on to TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – BIG Names with BIG Flows which discussed ¥2.1trln a side flows overall, this insight analyses and proposes intra-sector baskets.
  • In general, the sector-neutral BUYs vs SELLs baskets of all names where Index Shares change by 10% or more have seen BUYs sharply outperform SELLs in the past three weeks.
  • Look for pre-positioning unwinds so trading BUY vs SELL baskets which have bucked the trend, banks and chemicals – might be worthwhile. Otherwise, pick your spots. Use the flow.

MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • We see 9 potential adds and 2 potential deletes for the MSCI India Index at the November SAIR. There are a few stocks close to the cutoffs.
  • Inclusion in the index will require passive trackers to buy 7-14 days of ADV on the stocks. That increases to 18-55 days of delivery volume.
  • There appears to be significant pre-positioning on a lot of the potential adds and the shareholding pattern as of end September should provide a better picture.

Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG

By Arun George


SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • AIPL has commenced a market consultation on amending the index universe to only include stocks that are a part of the Futures & Options (F&O) segment of the market.
  • This is likely driven by a bunch of Adani-group companies that are at the cusp of index inclusion and are not a part of the F&O market.
  • Post implementation of the change, Tata Motors Ltd (TTMT IN) is a likely inclusion to the index in December, though that depends on Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRRD IN) being deleted.

EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades

By Simon Harris

  • Weekly summary of vol changes and moves across Global Markets
  • Analysing ATM volatility and skew changes over the last 5 days
  • We suggest a few trades to take advantage of the implied vol surfaces


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Daily Brief Technical Analysis: Fresh Assault on SPX 3 and more

By | Daily Briefs, Technical Analysis

In today’s briefing:

  • Fresh Assault on SPX 3,630 Bull/Bear Line

Fresh Assault on SPX 3,630 Bull/Bear Line

By Thomas Schroeder

  • We recommended rolling back into our short group at SPX 3,800+ on October 5th. Friday’s NFP bear impulse does show energy to pressure the SPX 3,630/50 bull/bear line.
  • SPX chart shows downside follow through after downside impulses as does the oversold RSI reading (lacking any bull divergence). US yields and USD point north to provide bear fuel.
  • Below SPX 3,630 (after an uptick) does favor minor new lows in the US that is part of the bottom building process outlined for October.

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Daily Brief United States: S&P 500 and more

By | Daily Briefs, United States

In today’s briefing:

  • Fresh Assault on SPX 3,630 Bull/Bear Line

Fresh Assault on SPX 3,630 Bull/Bear Line

By Thomas Schroeder

  • We recommended rolling back into our short group at SPX 3,800+ on October 5th. Friday’s NFP bear impulse does show energy to pressure the SPX 3,630/50 bull/bear line.
  • SPX chart shows downside follow through after downside impulses as does the oversold RSI reading (lacking any bull divergence). US yields and USD point north to provide bear fuel.
  • Below SPX 3,630 (after an uptick) does favor minor new lows in the US that is part of the bottom building process outlined for October.

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Daily Brief Macro: Reasons to Financial Model the Yom Kippur War and more

By | Daily Briefs, Macro

In today’s briefing:

  • Reasons to Financial Model the Yom Kippur War
  • Buy Now, Pain Later
  • GEM Fund Q3 Performance.  Active Managers Claw It Back After Blockbuster September.

Reasons to Financial Model the Yom Kippur War

By Cam Hui

  • The combination of high energy prices and a determined hawkish Fed is reminscient of the Yom Kippur War and the subsequent Arab Oil Embargo, which crashed the U.S. economy.
  • But it may not be as bearish as the 1974 bear market. Investors have to be prepared for a sudden Plaza Accord style policy decision to weaken the USD.
  • Another bullish development could see the end of the Russo-Ukraine war, which could spark a rip-your-face-off stock market rally.

Buy Now, Pain Later

By Cam Hui

  • We are constructive on the U.S. stock market for the next few weeks, perhaps as far as to year-end.
  • Investors need to be prepared for turbulence once any short-term rally peters out.
  • This is a bear market, and don’t mistake a bear market rally for the start of a fresh bull.

GEM Fund Q3 Performance.  Active Managers Claw It Back After Blockbuster September.

By Steven Holden

  • Active EM managers outperform by 1.13% in Q3, with 59.3% of funds outperforming the MSCI EM Index
  • All Style groups outperformed the benchmark.  Value underperformed Growth. Significant outperformance at the Small/Midcap end of the spectrum.
  • Key drivers:  Underweights in China/Overweights in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Cash holdings, overweights in MercadoLibre and underweights in Tencent

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Daily Brief China: Hong Kong Hang Seng Index, Lifestyle International Holdings, Jiangsu Expressway (H), Antengene, Dingdang Health Technology Group, Country Garden Holdings Co and more

By | China, Daily Briefs

In today’s briefing:

  • EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades
  • Merger Arb Mondays (10 Oct) – Lifestyle, Yashili, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, DTAC/True, Nearmap, PTB
  • Jiangsu Expressway (177 HK): A Simple yet Attractive Yield Play
  • Antengene (6996 HK): First Drug Launched in Crowded Market of China Fails to Allure Investors
  • Dingdang Health Technology (9886HK)-Business Model Face Test; Hard to Run the Ecosystem Successfully
  • Morning Views Asia: China SCE, China Vanke, Country Garden Holdings Co, Tata Motors ADR

EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades

By Simon Harris

  • Weekly summary of vol changes and moves across Global Markets
  • Analysing ATM volatility and skew changes over the last 5 days
  • We suggest a few trades to take advantage of the implied vol surfaces


Jiangsu Expressway (177 HK): A Simple yet Attractive Yield Play

By Osbert Tang, CFA

  • With share price of Jiangsu Expressway (H) (177 HK) now back to the 2013-2014 level, the stock is very attractive on secured yield of 8.6% based on its dividend record. 
  • Fundamentally, we expect sequential recovery in earnings in 2H22. Its diversification into clean energy will provide a quality earnings stream. Longer-term, new projects will add to earnings. 
  • It has a healthy gearing level and the Rmb denominated borrowings means it will benefit from lower interest rate and lack of exposure to Rmb depreciation.  

Antengene (6996 HK): First Drug Launched in Crowded Market of China Fails to Allure Investors

By Tina Banerjee

  • On May 13, Antengene (6996 HK) launched first drug, Xpovio in China as fourth-line treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Xpovio has also been launched in South Korea, Australia, and Singapore.
  • Xpovio reported revenue of RMB54 million in H1 2022. Antengene has guided for 2022 revenue of RMB180–200 million from Xpovio.
  • Late-Line MM therapy market is small and dominated by blockbuster drugs and low-cost generic versions of erstwhile blockbuster drugs, indicating muted growth potential for Xpovio in its current approval status.

Dingdang Health Technology (9886HK)-Business Model Face Test; Hard to Run the Ecosystem Successfully

By Xinyao (Criss) Wang

  • Dingdang has formed a system integrating front-end consultation, self-built pharmacies and back-end distribution. The “heavy asset model” leads to large liabilities, negative equity balance, cash flow pressure and poor profitability.
  • Dingdang lacks core competitiveness in introducing customer flow or rapidly expanding user base. Together with fierce competition, the gap between the Company and JD Health/Alibaba Health will become bigger.
  • It’s difficult to achieve high profits based on the business model when break-even is barely achieved. Dingdang has it hard to successfully run through its ecosystem.We’re bearish on the outlook.

Morning Views Asia: China SCE, China Vanke, Country Garden Holdings Co, Tata Motors ADR

By Charles Macgregor

Lucror Analytics Morning Views comprise our fundamental credit analysis, opinions and trade recommendations on high yield issuers in the region, based on key company-specific developments in the past 24 hours. Our Morning Views include a section with a brief market commentary, key market indicators and a macroeconomic and corporate event calendar.


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Daily Brief Japan: Softbank Group, Hitachi Ltd and more

By | Daily Briefs, Japan

In today’s briefing:

  • TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)
  • Hitachi Ltd. (6501 JP): Downside Risk in Recession

TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)

By Travis Lundy

  • As a follow-on to TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – BIG Names with BIG Flows which discussed ¥2.1trln a side flows overall, this insight analyses and proposes intra-sector baskets.
  • In general, the sector-neutral BUYs vs SELLs baskets of all names where Index Shares change by 10% or more have seen BUYs sharply outperform SELLs in the past three weeks.
  • Look for pre-positioning unwinds so trading BUY vs SELL baskets which have bucked the trend, banks and chemicals – might be worthwhile. Otherwise, pick your spots. Use the flow.

Hitachi Ltd. (6501 JP): Downside Risk in Recession

By Scott Foster

  • Diversified across sectors and regions, Hitachi Ltd. is a proxy for the global economy going into recession.
  • Restructuring nearly complete, but little margin expansion so far. DX revenues growing rapidly, but more profit supporter than driver. 
  • Weak 1Q and worsening economic situation casts doubt on FY Mar-23 guidance.

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Daily Brief India: Varun Beverages Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd, Kotak Mahindra Bank and more

By | Daily Briefs, India

In today’s briefing:

  • MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact
  • SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact
  • SEBI Indicts, Kotak Mahindra Promotes

MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • We see 9 potential adds and 2 potential deletes for the MSCI India Index at the November SAIR. There are a few stocks close to the cutoffs.
  • Inclusion in the index will require passive trackers to buy 7-14 days of ADV on the stocks. That increases to 18-55 days of delivery volume.
  • There appears to be significant pre-positioning on a lot of the potential adds and the shareholding pattern as of end September should provide a better picture.

SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • AIPL has commenced a market consultation on amending the index universe to only include stocks that are a part of the Futures & Options (F&O) segment of the market.
  • This is likely driven by a bunch of Adani-group companies that are at the cusp of index inclusion and are not a part of the F&O market.
  • Post implementation of the change, Tata Motors Ltd (TTMT IN) is a likely inclusion to the index in December, though that depends on Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRRD IN) being deleted.

SEBI Indicts, Kotak Mahindra Promotes

By Hemindra Hazari

  • SEBI, capital market regulator penalises senior executives of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company for serious offenses in June 2022
  • The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) stays the penalties but a stay is not an exoneration, final order scheduled on November 10, 2022 
  • Instead of disciplining senior executives, Kotak Mahindra publicly promotes concerned executives demonstrating contempt for the regulator. 

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Most Read: HMM Co., Ltd., Softbank Group, Shinsei Bank, Toyota Motor, Softbank Corp, Varun Beverages Ltd, Link Administration, Tata Motors Ltd, Kakao Pay, Betagro and more

By | Daily Briefs, Most Read

In today’s briefing:

  • Rule Changes in Disclosing the Identities of Foreign Short Sellers in Korea
  • TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)
  • TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – BIG Names with BIG Flows
  • TOPIX October Rebalance: BIG One With ¥1.8tn a Side to Trade
  • Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSCI, FTSE, HSI, TW Div+, China 50, KOSDAQ150, TOPIX FFW, PEXA
  • MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact
  • Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG
  • SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact
  • ECM Weekly (9th Oct 2022) – CALB, Socionext, Betagro, Country Style, I-Tail, Lionheart, Kakao Pay
  • Betagro Pre-IPO Peer Comparison – Margins Historically Weaker than Peers, but Playing Catch Up

Rule Changes in Disclosing the Identities of Foreign Short Sellers in Korea

By Sanghyun Park

  • Chairman Kim of the FSC mentioned potential rule changes in disclosing the names of short sellers at the state audit last Thursday.
  • The first is to reveal the identity of short sellers who traded through a swap contract with a broker, which is currently exempt from the short-selling disclosure obligation.
  • The second is to disclose the identity of investors caught in illegal short-selling activities, mostly naked short-selling and wall-crossing.

TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – Buy/Sell Baskets (May the Flow Be Ever In Your Favour)

By Travis Lundy

  • As a follow-on to TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – BIG Names with BIG Flows which discussed ¥2.1trln a side flows overall, this insight analyses and proposes intra-sector baskets.
  • In general, the sector-neutral BUYs vs SELLs baskets of all names where Index Shares change by 10% or more have seen BUYs sharply outperform SELLs in the past three weeks.
  • Look for pre-positioning unwinds so trading BUY vs SELL baskets which have bucked the trend, banks and chemicals – might be worthwhile. Otherwise, pick your spots. Use the flow.

TOPIX October 2022 Rebal – BIG Names with BIG Flows

By Travis Lundy

  • The TSE announced its first large FFW rebalance under new rules and Market Segmentation. ~1,000 names see FFW drop 5% or more. 100+ rise 5+%. Reverse funding trades are significant.
  • Top BUY flow: Toyota, Olympus, Daiichi Sankyo, Tokio Marine, JP Holdings with an average of 4.0 days’ ADV to buy. Softbank/9984, MitCorp, Hitachi, Suzuki, Marubeni average 4.8 days to SELL.
  • 493 names start their phased weight reduction out of TOPIX because they do not meet the hurdle for minimum trading value. And… Shinsei is the most impressive SELL name.

TOPIX October Rebalance: BIG One With ¥1.8tn a Side to Trade

By Brian Freitas

  • At the October rebalance, there are 970 stocks that will have a lower FFW while 114 stocks will have a higher FFW. 493 stocks will undergo a Phased Weight Reduction.
  • Estimated one-way turnover is 2.54% resulting in a one-way trade of ¥1.815tn. 500 stocks have over 4 days ADV to trade, 100 stocks have over 9 days ADV to trade.
  • Setting the threshold at +/-US$50m to trade, the stocks with inflows have outperformed the stocks with outflows by 6.5% over the last four months.

Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSCI, FTSE, HSI, TW Div+, China 50, KOSDAQ150, TOPIX FFW, PEXA

By Brian Freitas

  • We expect a few adds to the HSCI in December followed by a lot more change in March. We could finally reach 80 HSI INDEX constituents in December.
  • There will be a handful of adds to the FTSE All-World/All-Cap indices in December. But there will be many changes to the FTSE TWSE Taiwan Dividend+ Index in December.
  • There were large inflows to the Yuanta/PShares Taiwan Dividend Plus ETF (0056 TT), Hang Seng H Share Index ETF (2828 HK) and Tracker Fund of Hong Kong Ltd (2800 HK)

MSCI India November SAIR: Potential Changes with Big Flow & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • We see 9 potential adds and 2 potential deletes for the MSCI India Index at the November SAIR. There are a few stocks close to the cutoffs.
  • Inclusion in the index will require passive trackers to buy 7-14 days of ADV on the stocks. That increases to 18-55 days of delivery volume.
  • There appears to be significant pre-positioning on a lot of the potential adds and the shareholding pattern as of end September should provide a better picture.

Weekly Deals Digest (09 Oct) – Betagro, Link Admin, Tyro, MACA, Eagle Cement, O2Micro, SMG

By Arun George


SENSEX Index Rebalance Preview: Market Consultation on Derivative Linkage & Impact

By Brian Freitas

  • AIPL has commenced a market consultation on amending the index universe to only include stocks that are a part of the Futures & Options (F&O) segment of the market.
  • This is likely driven by a bunch of Adani-group companies that are at the cusp of index inclusion and are not a part of the F&O market.
  • Post implementation of the change, Tata Motors Ltd (TTMT IN) is a likely inclusion to the index in December, though that depends on Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRRD IN) being deleted.

ECM Weekly (9th Oct 2022) – CALB, Socionext, Betagro, Country Style, I-Tail, Lionheart, Kakao Pay

By Sumeet Singh

  • Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
  • On the IPO front, HK IPOs continued to struggle with CALB (3931 HK) joining Leapmotor (9863 HK) and Onewo (2602 HK) with its tepid performance.
  • Given the mid-week HK holiday and the ongoing golden week, there weren’t any large placements this week.

Betagro Pre-IPO Peer Comparison – Margins Historically Weaker than Peers, but Playing Catch Up

By Clarence Chu

  • Betagro (BTG TB) is looking to raise about US$460m in its Thailand IPO.  
  • Betagro is an integrated agro-industrial and food business in Thailand. 
  • Betagro identified three Thailand-listed companies which we included in our peer comparison exercise to determine how it has fared against its direct peers. 

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