{"id":1391037,"date":"2022-03-21T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391037"},"modified":"2022-03-21T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:45:03","slug":"china-could-potentially-be-a-safe-haven-for-investors-amid-a-global-market-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-could-potentially-be-a-safe-haven-for-investors-amid-a-global-market-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"China Could Potentially Be a Safe Haven for Investors Amid a Global Market Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-could-potentially-be-a-safe-haven-for-investors-amid-a-global-market-downturn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; When the week started, JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co. analysts warned that China\u2019s internet stocks were \u201cuninvestable.\u201d The world is in a different place now.<\/p>\n<p>Most Read from Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Following a string of dramatic interventions by Beijing, the worst selloff in Chinese markets since 2008 turned into a historic surge, catapulting the country\u2019s U.S.-listed technology firms into a rebound not seen before. For investors who\u2019ve been burned many times by abrupt somersaults in government policy, the question is whether the rally will hold, turning the world\u2019s second-biggest economy into a haven for traders and a life-raft for global output amid concerns over a broad slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>The best answer from strategists is: It could.<\/p>\n<p>Even the perpetually pessimistic Bank of America Corp. team said Friday that China\u2019s \u201cverbal intervention\u201d could become a \u201cbull driver\u201d for a spring rally if policy stimulus ends the country\u2019s growth downgrades and puts a floor on global economic output estimates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market was indeed oversold, irrational, in the dramatic rout, so the real money is back doing bottom-fishing,\u201d said Castor Pang, head of research at Core Pacific Yamaichi.<\/p>\n<p>For Christophe Barraud &#8212; one of the top forecasters for the Chinese economy according to Bloomberg\u2019s rankings &#8212; a confluence of factors shows why the country felt compelled to act. The lockdown in Shenzhen on Monday, a tech-hub province of 24 million, tested the country\u2019s zero-Covid policy at the same time as a hit to foreign demand from the conflict in Ukraine. That threatened to derail China\u2019s economic growth ahead of a Communist Party meeting later this year at which President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a precedent-breaking third term in office, according to Barraud, chief economist at Market Securities LLP.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s top financial policy committee swung into action. It vowed to ease a crackdown on technology firms, support the battered real-estate market and stimulate the economy. The pledge follows a prolonged squeeze on financing for property developers and a sweeping regulatory campaign aimed at internet giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>That was swiftly followed by the country\u2019s central bank intervening to weaken the yuan and the government distancing itself from Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine to minimize the risk of drawing Joe Biden\u2019s ire and potential U.S. sanctions. Xi then signaled a shift in a longstanding Covid-fighting strategy by pledging to reduce its economic impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Draghi Moment\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The announcements amount to a \u201ca Draghi moment,\u201d Shanti Kelemen, Chief Investment Officer at M&#038;G Wealth said on Bloomberg TV, referring to the former president of the European Central Bank, whose pledge to do \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d to save the euro area turned the fortunes of the currency bloc during the sovereign debt crisis a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>After Beijing\u2019s pledge, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index jumped 33%, the most ever. That still left the value of U.S.-listed Chinese behemoths well below their historic records.<\/p>\n<p>For optimists, the rally still has legs, offering traders a recourse just as developed markets in Europe and the U.S. face the prospect of higher interest rates, and the wind down of the monetary and fiscal stimulus measures that fueled last year\u2019s ferocious rally.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists recommend an overweight position on Chinese equities, citing the country\u2019s well-anchored growth targets and low investor positioning. And in an ad hoc meeting this week, Credit Suisse\u2019s investment committee increased its exposure to Chinese equities into an overweight.<\/p>\n<p>China going into expansionary mode can only help, said Barraud. \u201cI expect monetary policy to be more accommodative and fiscal policy to be supportive especially for SMEs which are not able to pass costs on consumers,\u201d he said, adding that Chinese equities have low valuations and may see relief from the easing of regulatory pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese stocks had almost always traded at a hefty premium to Europe and the U.S., but the rout of the past few months wiped out most of it. At one point this week, the Dragon Index was trading at 13 times forward earnings, a far cry from 40 times in June 2021, just when Beijing had started its scrutiny of internet companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at Alibaba, you got a value and price mismatch,\u201d said Justin Tang, head of Asian Research at United First Partners in Singapore. \u201cYou are buying good value but when will price reflect that value? That will take some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opaque Policy<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics remain unconvinced by the valuation argument. As risks abound globally, the policy predictability of developed markets outshines the attractive valuations found in economies like China, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Take Russia, for example. In a note on Feb. 7, JPMorgan strategists recommended an overweight position, citing attractive valuations. \u201cWe see 2022 presenting a supportive backdrop for equities\u201d in Russia, \u201cdriven by easy monetary policy, pace in the vaccine rollout strategy, and above-trend growth,\u201d strategists led by Mislav Matejka wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few weeks and investors are sitting on Russian assets that could be entirely wiped out amid a wave of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambiguous ties with Vladimir Putin could yet draw new U.S. sanctions, although the likelihood of it siding unequivocally with Russia in the Ukraine conflict is very small, said Jason Hsu, chairman and chief investment officer of Rayliant Global Advisors Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. and China will be \u2018frenemies\u2019&#8211; they can disagree in the politics and agree on the business, and the economies are still doing okay, that\u2019s the preferred relationship for investors,\u201d said Olivier d\u2019Assier, head of Asia Pacific applied research at Qontigo.<\/p>\n<p>But such bets of predictability and stability have proved wrong before, with U.S.-listed Chinese tech stocks erasing more than a decade of gains before this week\u2019s rebound. Also, headwinds remain. China\u2019s lockdowns with each Covid flare up, potential capital outflows due to the Federal Reserve\u2019s rate hikes and a sluggish property market cloud the outlook.<\/p>\n<p>So for investors, the most important promise from China this week was that it will \u201cmaintain the stability and consistency of policy expectations.\u201d They will hold it to its word.<\/p>\n<p>Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92022 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; When the week started, JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co. analysts warned that China\u2019s internet stocks were \u201cuninvestable.\u201d The world is in a different place now.Most Read from BloombergFollowing a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}