Frailty in UK, US Consumer to Drag Down HSBC Profit
Weakness in UK property, US consumer finance and historically low impairment costs, point to weaker earnings for HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA LN) when...
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US Credit Card Lender Reveals Worsening Stress
While many US banks have not reported rising NPLs or impairment costs, we are not convinced that the environment is particularly strong. There are...
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US Healthcare Overhaul Stumbling, Singapore Cyclical Rally Looking Premature
The Republican replacement for ‘Obamacare’ has been announced and looks an incoherent mess – resurgent healthcare inflation will be a drag on...
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Case-Shiller Property Indices Hugely Misleading...and Different from Stocks (LT Invst Windows Tight)
This topic has nagged me for some time. Two months ago when the Case-Shiller Home Price Index “made a new high” and after new highs again this...
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'America First' Agenda Remains Contradictory, Vietnam Trip Notes…
Wall Street has projected its wildest fantasies onto the largely blank canvas Trump provided, but this is politics reinvented as performance...
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