Market Summary U.S. and World Outlook: Pivotal Influence Is the Value of the U.S. Dollar The U.S. dollar continues to be strong and this continues to disincentivize U.S. investors putting money into commodities, non-U.S. stock and bond markets. Simultaneously, the strong U.S. dollar incentivizes foreign investors to put money in Read more
The Yuan’s Falling, and the Market’s Not Panicking The steep drop in the value in U.S. dollar terms of the Chinese yuan contributed a lot to the difficulties experienced by the U.S. stock market in 2015 and 2016. The yuan’s initial sharp devaluation in early August, 2015 caused the S&P Read more
Let’s Make A Deal, China Edition Since the correction that began in late February, the U.S. stock market has been laboring under many fears. These fears fall into two basic categories — the rational and the irrational. A fear can be rational or irrational on its face; no one would Read more
Why Not to Worry About China Back in November, we wrote: “The skeptics and haters of the current bull market have spent the last eight years finding reasons and justifications for their skepticism. One of the favorite reasons for pessimism has been China. “Sometimes China has been a geopolitical boogeyman, Read more
The skeptics and haters of the current bull market have spent the last eight years finding reasons and justifications for their skepticism. One of the favorite reasons for pessimism has been China. Sometimes China has been a geopolitical boogeyman, with journalists fretting about China’s rise on the world stage and Read more
Chinese As A “Leading Global Power” by 2050 — And How China’s Tech Giants Feature In That Equation With Chinese internet stocks “as hot as the sun” according to one commentator, companies such as Alibaba [NYSE: BABA], Baidu [NASDAQ: BIDU], Tencent [Hong Kong: 700], JD.com [NASDAQ: JD], and TAL Education Read more
Is China Doomed? Don’t Hold Your Breath Bitcoin’s from time to time, coverage of China rises to a crescendo in the popular media. China coverage reflects some of the same schizophrenia that afflicts much of the media’s output. At many points in the past several years, according to the media, Read more
Social Commerce, Live Streaming, and Virtual Goods: Chinese E-Commerce Innovation Pulls Ahead Since its economy began to be opened in earnest in the 1990s, China has undergone a transformation so radical that it defies easy description — one we’ve often written about in these pages. From many perspectives, the Chinese Read more
Video Games Rocket Ahead in 2017 The four largest “pure-play” video game companies have been star stock-market performers in 2017: Activision Blizzard [NASDAQ: ATVI], Electronic Arts [NASDAQ: EA], Take Two Interactive [NASDAQ: TTWO], and Tencent [Hong Kong: 700HK]. (Tencent is not technically a pure play, but does earn about half Read more
China Has a Grand Strategy — They Want to Be the Greatest World Power China Has a Grand Strategy — They Want to Be the Greatest World Power Next week, the Chinese government will host 28 heads of state, as well as many senior government and NGO officials, at the Read more
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