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Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>Regulators / China plans to create vast new financial regulator</li><li>Foreign policy / China warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of U.S. zero-sum strategy</li><li>Budget / China sees land sales flat at $1.1 trillion this year</li></ul>

Regulators / China plans to create vast new financial regulatorForeign policy / China warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of U.S. zero-sum strategyBudget / China sees land sales flat at $1.1 trillion this year

CX Daily: China Plans to Create Vast New Financial Regulator

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Shares of Chinese rare earth suppliers plunged Thursday after Tesla Inc. said it will reduce its use of the minerals in future electric vehicles to control costs.</li><li>The leading electric-car maker is designing next-generation powertrain that will use a permanent magnet motor that doesn’t rely on rare earth materials, Colin Campbell, Tesla vice president for powertrain engineering, said at an investor meeting.</li><li>The change reflects Tesla’s efforts to control material costs and reduce its involvement in the health and<a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-04-29/in-depth-chinas-rare-earth-hub-wrestles-a-stubborn-problem-cleaning-up-101878773.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> environmental risks </a>of mining the minerals, Campbell said.</li></ul>

Shares of Chinese rare earth suppliers plunged Thursday after Tesla Inc. said it will reduce its use of the minerals in future electric vehicles to control costs.The leading electric-car maker is designing next-generation powertrain that will use a permanent magnet motor that doesn’t rely on rare earth materials, Colin Campbell, Tesla vice president for powertrain engineering, said at an investor meeting.The change reflects Tesla’s efforts to control material costs and reduce its involvement in the health and environmental risks of mining the minerals, Campbell said.

Rare Earth Stocks Plunge as Tesla Seeks Alternatives

Equity Bottom-Up

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) battery-maker, is in talks to offer automakers steeply discounted prices in exchange for sourcing the vast bulk of their power cells from the company in a bid to stave off growing competition from smaller rivals, Caixin has learned.</li><li>If the plan goes ahead, CATL will sell the strategic clients EV batteries made from self-manufactured lithium carbonate at a low price.</li><li>In return, they will be required to sign a contract committing them to buy 80% of their EV batteries from CATL over the next three years, a person close to the company told Caixin on Sunday.</li></ul>

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) battery-maker, is in talks to offer automakers steeply discounted prices in exchange for sourcing the vast bulk of their power cells from the company in a bid to stave off growing competition from smaller rivals, Caixin has learned.If the plan goes ahead, CATL will sell the strategic clients EV batteries made from self-manufactured lithium carbonate at a low price.In return, they will be required to sign a contract committing them to buy 80% of their EV batteries from CATL over the next three years, a person close to the company told Caixin on Sunday.

CATL Offering Steep Discounts to Automakers in Quid Pro Quo Deal, Source Says

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 3% YoY in 2022 with weaker-than-expected sales in Nov and Dec.</li><li>Wholesale volume rose 10% YoY in 2022, aided by exports and inventory restocking.</li><li>Automakers cut about 0.49mn units of inventories in their dealers’ showrooms in Dec 2022, lower than our expectation, as new-energy vehicle (NEV) makers only cut their inventories by 17,000 units in Dec. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 3% YoY in 2022 with weaker-than-expected sales in Nov and Dec.Wholesale volume rose 10% YoY in 2022, aided by exports and inventory restocking.Automakers cut about 0.49mn units of inventories in their dealers’ showrooms in Dec 2022, lower than our expectation, as new-energy vehicle (NEV) makers only cut their inventories by 17,000 units in Dec. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – Weak ending of 2022 provides a glimpse of hope

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Mark Tinker

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Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>We are re-introducing two regular posts, Monday Morning Musings and Friday Market Thinking to book-end the week, on the basis that regular postings are appreciated by readers, as well as providing a good discipline for ourselves.</li><li>Other posts will continue obviously. The idea of ‘Musings’ is that while none of the following might merit a full post of their own, they might perhaps add up to some interesting observations (of sorts).</li><li>This week, it is all back to ‘normal’ as Davos man hops on a Private Jet and returns to their snowy ancestral home to talk once again about climate change and world poverty for the World Economic Forum.</li></ul>

We are re-introducing two regular posts, Monday Morning Musings and Friday Market Thinking to book-end the week, on the basis that regular postings are appreciated by readers, as well as providing a good discipline for ourselves.Other posts will continue obviously. The idea of ‘Musings’ is that while none of the following might merit a full post of their own, they might perhaps add up to some interesting observations (of sorts).This week, it is all back to ‘normal’ as Davos man hops on a Private Jet and returns to their snowy ancestral home to talk once again about climate change and world poverty for the World Economic Forum.

United States

Tesla Inc. operates as a multinational automotive and clean energy company. The Company designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla owns its sales and service network and sells electric power train components to other automobile manufacturers.

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CX Daily: China Plans to Create Vast New Financial Regulator

China plans to create vast new financial regulator. China warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of U.S. zero-sum strategy. China sees land sales...

Caixin Global

Rare Earth Stocks Plunge as Tesla Seeks Alternatives

Shares of Chinese rare earth suppliers plunged Thursday after Tesla Inc. said it will reduce its use of the minerals in future electric vehicles...

Caixin Global

CATL Offering Steep Discounts to Automakers in Quid Pro Quo Deal, Source Says

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) battery-maker, is in talks to offer automakers steeply...

Caixin Global

China Auto Sector – Weak ending of 2022 provides a glimpse of hope

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 3% YoY in 2022 with weaker-than-expected sales in Nov and Dec. Wholesale volume rose 10%...

CMB International

Monday Morning Musings

We are re-introducing two regular posts, Monday Morning Musings and Friday Market Thinking to book-end the week, on the basis that regular postings...

Mark Tinker

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