Daily Brief Macro: Korea Exchange Launches the Disclosure of Corporate Value Up Program on KIND System and more

• The Korea Exchange introduced the Corporate Value Up program on the KIND website. This is a voluntary system aimed at boosting the corporate value of listed Korean companies.
• Five key investment indicators for the 2,400+ listed Korean companies include PBR, PER, ROE, dividend payout, and dividend yield. The detailed data these indicators can be easily downloaded on excel. 
• Corporate Value Up program is a marathon, not a sprint. In this race, the runners (Korean companies) also need some water (such as improvements to dividend/corporate income tax policy).

• Beijing has announced a range of measures to stabilise China’s housing market, including dealing with unsold inventory through government purchases and boosting demand via lower mortgage downpayments.
• A return to the 2016-2020 boom in housing activity is unlikely, while an extended L-shaped period of healing appears to be a plausible baseline scenario.
• Improvement in homebuyers’ confidence will be crucial in achieving a market bottom, particularly lower concerns about the financial health of developers and non-delivery risks for new homes.   

• We are not overly concerned about the capitulation of a prominent Wall Street bear on an intermediate-term basis.
• Stock prices are advancing on stable interest rates and continued economic and earnings growth.
• However, the stock market is showing some signs of bullishness exhaustion and it’s vulnerable to a short-term pullback.

• Key data releases in the upcoming week include PMI data from China, CPI data from Tokyo and Australia, GDP data from India, and Industrial production data from Korea
• US core PCE inflation data forecasted to be 0.252% for April, indicating a possible slowdown in inflation
• Fed expected to delay easing cycle start until September, with recent data showing signs of slowing growth and consumer sector cracks

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• Market fears production return will impact prices, with Wood McKenzie predicting increase in June production
• Northeast, Permian, and Haynesville expected to see production rebound in the coming months
• Price rally in US market driven by short summer positions, but weather will play a key role in price movements, with heat expected in the coming days potentially mitigating any retracement

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• It’s been a break-through week for Crypto bros in many ways.
• First, the SEC made a massive u-turn and approved the spot ETH ETF and then Donald Trump fully endorsed the crypto space in his speech at the Libertarian Party forum over the weekend.
• Crypto has broken through to K-street and on top of the obvious positive side-effects, a BTC or an ETH is now becoming a politicized asset.