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Microsoft (MSFT) pulled back sharply into oversold territory while fundamental earners - Azure, Microsoft 365, and free cash flow - remain intact. At ~2.98T market cap and ~25x earnings, the stock looks buyable for a mid-term swing (45 trading days) with a clear entry, stop and target that respect both momentum and valuation risk.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's commanding election victory on Sunday has increased the likelihood she will implement the Liberal Democratic Party's pledge to suspend the 8% sales tax on food for two years. Markets reacted sharply to the prospect of the tax pause, with stocks rising, government bonds selling off and the yen slipping to multi-year l…
Innovent Biologics shares jumped in Hong Kong after the company announced a new development partnership with Eli Lilly focused on oncology and immunology. Innovent will receive a $350 million upfront payment and could collect up to $8.5 billion in additional payments tied to future milestones. The deal is the seventh collaboration between the two f…
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media entrepreneur and prominent critic of Beijing, received a 20-year prison sentence on Monday under the city’s national security law. The punishment is the harshest available under the legislation that followed the 2019 protests. Lai’s career as a self-made businessman turned media proprietor, his role funding and suppor…
KDDI Corp said it will record an estimated 246 billion yen ($1.6 billion) charge tied to an internal investigation that found fictitious sales at two advertising-related subsidiaries. The announcement triggered a steep drop in the company’s shares and led KDDI to delay its third-quarter financial disclosure until the probe concludes.
Bhumjaithai secured a commanding lead in last weekend’s Thai general election, winning roughly 192 of 500 parliamentary seats from nearly 95% of polling stations and displacing expected favourites. While the party falls short of an outright majority, its seat haul gives leader Anutin Charnvirakul considerable bargaining power to assemble a governme…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company has pivoted to prioritize building a 'self-growing' city on the Moon, a goal he said could be reached in under 10 years. Musk contrasted the lunar timetable with a longer 20+ year horizon for Mars, while also saying work on a Mars city will begin in five to seven years. His remarks come as SpaceX readies a plan…
Lee Seung-heon, a leading candidate to succeed Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong, advocates raising property ownership taxes to temper a housing price surge that he says could fuel inflation and block homeownership for middle-income families. He argues against immediate interest rate increases, calling further tightening premature given weak g…
China's highest court has annulled a death sentence handed to Canadian national Robert Schellenberg on drug-related charges and ordered the case returned to a provincial high court for retrial, his Beijing-based lawyer said. The development arrives amid a recent thaw in Canada-China relations following a four-day visit to China by Canadian Prime Mi…
Most Asian currencies traded in a narrow range on Monday, with the Japanese yen strengthening modestly after Japan's finance ministry stepped up warnings about possible market intervention. The yen's slight recovery came against the backdrop of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's decisive lower house victory, which raises concerns about expanded fiscal…
Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old founder of the defunct Apple Daily tabloid, was handed a total prison term of 20 years after being convicted on two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditious materials. The sentence ends one of Hong Kong's most prominent national security prosecutions, a process that began w…
Merck is no longer the deeply discounted defensive name it was in mid-2025. After a strong run to a 52-week high and a guidance miss that leaves upside dependent on sustained Keytruda growth and strategic execution, we downgrade the stock and propose a mid-term short-biased trade to capture a likely pullback.
Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, has asked New Zealand's appellate court to set aside the guilty pleas he entered a year after the attacks. Appearing by video link, Tarrant told the court that harsh prison conditions damaged his mental health and rendered him incapable of making rational, v…
Most Asian equity markets rallied sharply on Monday, building on a late-week rebound in U.S. technology shares. Japan led the move higher after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition won a commanding lower-house majority, sending the Nikkei 225 to a record high above 57,000. Technology and chip-related stocks across the region outperforme…
On Feb. 9, Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai received a combined 20-year prison sentence on three national security-related charges: two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditious materials. The ruling prompted sharp condemnation from press freedom advocates, human rights groups and supporters, who desc…
Taiwan's vice premier pushed back on U.S. calls for a large transfer of semiconductor production to America, saying relocating 40% of the island's capacity is unattainable. Taipei signalled it will continue to grow its domestic ecosystem while increasing targeted investment and knowledge-sharing in the United States under existing agreements.
Oil futures fell in Asian trade after the United States and Iran indicated indirect nuclear talks would continue, easing fears of imminent military conflict. A resilient dollar and upcoming U.S. and Chinese economic releases also weighed on crude, with Brent and West Texas Intermediate both down 0.7% in early trading.
Storm Marta has compounded a series of recent weather events across Spain and Portugal, leaving vast areas waterlogged, killing at least several people, forcing thousands from their homes and prompting preliminary agricultural losses estimated at around 750 million euros. Authorities warned of continued heavy rain, snow at higher elevations and haz…
Starbucks reported early signs of a turnaround with improving comparable-store sales and a clear international expansion plan. The stock has run, but momentum remains intact and the valuation is tolerable given FCF generation and a large TAM. This trade proposes a mid-term tactical long at $99.50 with a $112 target and a $94 stop, sized for a mediu…
McDonald's is trading near 52-week highs with solid free cash flow and a newly declared $1.86 quarterly dividend. The business is asset-light, producing $7.06B in free cash flow against a $232.9B market cap, which supports buybacks and dividends even as traffic patterns shift. This trade targets a mid-term move as the market validates cash generati…
Thailand’s political landscape shifted after the Bhumjaithai Party, led by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, secured a larger-than-anticipated result in a recent general election. With most votes counted, Bhumjaithai emerged well ahead of rivals and is preparing to begin coalition discussions. Voters also supported a proposal to replace the post-…
Jack Lang has resigned as president of the Arab World Institute after documents showed years of correspondence with financier Jeffrey Epstein and triggered a French financial probe into suspected aggravated tax fraud laundering involving him and his daughter Caroline. Lang denies wrongdoing and has been summoned by the Foreign Ministry as scrutiny …
Japanese equities rose to fresh record highs while government bond yields climbed and the yen fell to new lows against the Swiss franc after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party secured a commanding victory in a snap election. The LDP captured 316 of 465 lower house seats, giving it a supermajority and the ability to pass legisl…
Gold advanced in Asian trade to levels just under $5,000 an ounce, while silver climbed more than 3% following a turbulent week marked by profit-taking, subdued haven demand and renewed uncertainty over U.S. monetary policy. Market attention is now fixed on upcoming U.S. nonfarm payrolls and consumer price index prints for further direction.
Hims & Hers has stopped providing access to a $49 compounded version of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would take action and restrict GLP-1 ingredients used in compounded drugs. The company paused the offering following conversations with industry stakeholders and regulator warnings that raised questions a…
