India focused Portfolio Advisory - Exp of 40+years, Das Capital Management and Advisors

Arun Thirumalai

India focused Portfolio Advisory - Exp of 40+years

Das Capital Management and Advisors

Das Capital is a research boutique with an aim to continuously map and plan the investment needs of investors focused on India. We have a six member research team with a combined experience of over 40 years as a part of our investment wing. Our team assisted in the setup of Premji Investments, which was one of India’s first family offices focused to managing Mr.Azim Premji personal wealth. We also serve as a research team to two Indian private equity energy funds “Small is Beautiful” and “KSK Emerging India Energy Fund”.

Macroeconomics

For the month of Jan'18 India's main equity indices Nifty 50 and Sensex increased 5.67% and 6.37% receptively, second best among the world markets behind the Hang Seng.During the Jan'18, Indian sectoral indices such as Nifty IT, Nifty Pvt Bank and Nifty Financial services rose 12.3%, 9.2%, and 8.6% respectively, Nifty Pharma saw the biggest fall among the sectoral indices with losing -2.4%.We will be discussing the IIP data for the month Dec'17, CPI data for Jan'18, Purchasing Managers Index for…

For the month of Jan'18 India's main equity indices Nifty 50 and Sensex increased 5.67% and 6.37% receptively, second best among the world markets behind the Hang Seng.During the Jan'18, Indian sectoral indices such as Nifty IT, Nifty Pvt Bank and Nifty Financial services rose 12.3%, 9.2%, and 8.6% respectively, Nifty Pharma saw the biggest fall among the sectoral indices with losing -2.4%.We will be discussing the IIP data for the month Dec'17, CPI data for Jan'18, Purchasing Managers Index for…

Multi-asset Macro/Emerging Markets Strategist

Virgil Fernandez Esguerra

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities.<ul class="">
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This week in trade ideas: Buy VIX on dips below 14. We review the merits of Ray Dalio's 'Big Short' on European stocks and add long EUR-SEK and short ZAR-MXN to our watchlist. We stay defensive on USD, US Treasurys and US equities via long positions in JPY, EUR, UST 10s vs 30s and US banks vs FANG+ stocks. We are long AUD-NZD and SGD-CNH and prefer Malaysia to Indian and Philippine equities.</li>
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Monday: Japan trade, Thailand…</li>
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Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities.

This week in trade ideas: Buy VIX on dips below 14. We review the merits of Ray Dalio's 'Big Short' on European stocks and add long EUR-SEK and short ZAR-MXN to our watchlist. We stay defensive on USD, US Treasurys and US equities via long positions in JPY, EUR, UST 10s vs 30s and US banks vs FANG+ stocks. We are long AUD-NZD and SGD-CNH and prefer Malaysia to Indian and Philippine equities.

Monday: Japan trade, Thailand…


Week Ahead in Global Macro: FOMC/ECB Minutes, Dalio's 'Big Short', Japan CPI, South Africa Budget

Silver Point

Thomas J. Monaco

Independent Insight Provider

Silver Point is a boutique research firm that focuses on the broader financial services sector, with a particular focus on troubled institutions globally. 

Asia Ex Japan

Equity Bottom-Up

* Indian Exchange Announcement Really Hurts:  On February 9, 2018, the Indian stock exchanges collectively terminated Singapore Exchange's (SGX.SP) [SGX] market data licensing agreement.  Indian contracts appear to represent 5.5% of overall derivative revenue – or 10% or more of SGX bottom-line. * De-Listing Challenges:  SGX has robust initial public offering (IPO) pipeline in 2018, but it is not nearly enough to offset the trading volume and market-cap loss associated with the deluge of…

* Indian Exchange Announcement Really Hurts:  On February 9, 2018, the Indian stock exchanges collectively terminated Singapore Exchange's (SGX.SP) [SGX] market data licensing agreement.  Indian contracts appear to represent 5.5% of overall derivative revenue – or 10% or more of SGX bottom-line. * De-Listing Challenges:  SGX has robust initial public offering (IPO) pipeline in 2018, but it is not nearly enough to offset the trading volume and market-cap loss associated with the deluge of…

Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities.<ul>
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This week in trade ideas, we maintain short positions on US stocks and bonds via FANG+ stocks and 30-year USTs. We are strategic long JPY and short Indian and Philippine equities. We are biased short GBP on a tactical basis.</li>
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Monday: Switzerland CPI, India CPI, Trump budget plans (infra and 2019 budget blueprint), OPEC oil market report</li>
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Tuesday: Japan PPI, UK CPI, IEA oil market report</li>
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Wednesday: Japan GDP, Sweden Riksbank…</li>
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Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities.

This week in trade ideas, we maintain short positions on US stocks and bonds via FANG+ stocks and 30-year USTs. We are strategic long JPY and short Indian and Philippine equities. We are biased short GBP on a tactical basis.

Monday: Switzerland CPI, India CPI, Trump budget plans (infra and 2019 budget blueprint), OPEC oil market report

Tuesday: Japan PPI, UK CPI, IEA oil market report

Wednesday: Japan GDP, Sweden Riksbank…


Week Ahead in Global Macro: Inflation (US, UK, Oil Reports, India), Japan/EU GDP, Lunar New Year

Chart based progressive global trading strategies, Chart Partners

Thomas Schroeder

Chart based progressive global trading strategies

Chart Partners

Chart Partners objective is to discover medium-term cycle turns and profit opportunities before they unfold, within structural trends while preserving capital with clear degrees of risk. We have real return ideas. 

Markets are dynamic and trading systems must reflect this. It is crucial to determine underlying correlations and lead-lag relationships within global markets and the impact on linked instruments. Our weekly Chartonics product gives you short-term trading strategies that can be applied within the medium and longer term macro trends that are mapped out in our strategy updates. 

Our methodology fuses global market variables and isolates drivers in trends. We specialize in FX, index trade in NY and Asia with a focus on Asian stocks. 

Technical Analysis

FTSE China A50 Index / Technical Analysis

<div style="text-align: left;">Asia bid support is coming through with signs of resilience. This tactical insight outlines S&amp;P pivot levels and the markets that are showing a firmer chart and bid support bias in Asia as well as the weaker market postures where we want to reduce risk on tactical strength. February is a seasonally weak month with US equities in a fragile state barring a push back above S&amp;P 2,810. We placed short protection at S&amp;P 2,844 and 2,807 on the back of warning signals of a fallout and followed with…</div>

Asia bid support is coming through with signs of resilience. This tactical insight outlines S&amp;P pivot levels and the markets that are showing a firmer chart and bid support bias in Asia as well as the weaker market postures where we want to reduce risk on tactical strength. February is a seasonally weak month with US equities in a fragile state barring a push back above S&amp;P 2,810. We placed short protection at S&amp;P 2,844 and 2,807 on the back of warning signals of a fallout and followed with…

India

The NIFTY 50 index is National Stock Exchange of India's benchmark stock market index for Indian equity market. Nifty is owned and managed by India Index Services and Products (IISL), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSE Strategic Investment Corporation Limited.

NIFTY Index (NIFTY INDEX)

India Monthly Report Jan'18 - Feb'18

For the month of Jan'18 India's main equity indices Nifty 50 and Sensex increased 5.67% and 6.37% receptively, second best among the world markets...

Das Capital Management and Advisors

Week Ahead in Global Macro: FOMC/ECB Minutes, Dalio's 'Big Short', Japan CPI, South Africa Budget

Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities. This week in trade ideas: Buy VIX on dips below 14. We review the...

Virgil Fernandez Esguerra

Singapore Exchange – Not So NIFTY

* Indian Exchange Announcement Really Hurts: On February 9, 2018, the Indian stock exchanges collectively terminated Singapore Exchange's (SGX.SP)...

Thomas J. Monaco

Week Ahead in Global Macro: Inflation (US, UK, Oil Reports, India), Japan/EU GDP, Lunar New Year

Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities. This week in trade ideas, we maintain short positions on US stocks...

Virgil Fernandez Esguerra

Asia Chart Levels and Where to Add Risk

Asia bid support is coming through with signs of resilience. This tactical insight outlines S&P pivot levels and the markets that are showing a...

Thomas Schroeder