It’s over, fuckers. Apparently, Trump really did it this time. China got caught open handed by Bloomberg, spying on us via Amazon and Apple, so now everything is coming to a head.
Markets are in free fall mode and it doesn’t help that JP Morgan just downgraded the dog eating nation of China, citing a full blown trade war.
J.P. Morgan is getting less optimistic about the trade conflict between the U.S. and China.
The firm lowered its rating for Chinese equities to neutral from overweight, predicting the escalating trade war between the countries will affect China’s economy next year.
“A full-blown trade war becomes our new base case scenario for 2019,” emerging market strategist Pedro Martins Junior said in a note to clients Wednesday. “There is no clear sign of mitigating confrontation between China and the US in the near term.”
On Monday, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said discussions with China over trade aren’t progressing.
The White House’s latest tariffs of 10 percent on $200 billion of imports from China took effect last week. President Donald Trump, in a Sept. 17 statement, said the tariffs would rise to 25 percent on Jan. 1.
Junior said China’s GDP growth could be negatively impacted by 1 percentage point from the latest round of announced tariffs, assuming it “does not take countermeasures.”
“Higher tariffs are squeezing Chinese manufacturing’s profit margin, reducing the investment incentive and hiring, which would then drag on consumption via reduced income,” he said.
Analyzing risk, I can tell you that it’s a morbid tale today. My Bubble Basket of high multiple stocks are down more than 3.5%.
I took today’s sell off to raise cash by selling ROST, UBNT, and XON. I am holding the bulk of positions and only sold these in order to be able to play an Exodus oversold, should it materialize. I’ll likely buy SPY with 20% of my assets for a duration of 10 days.
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