Asia Markets Advance, Europe Edges Lower And Gold Clocks New High At $2,630 – Global Markets Overview
Express News | Alibaba: Repurchased 3.634 million shares on September 19, with a total investment of approximately 39.9035 million dollars.
Express News | Tencent spent approximately 1.003 billion Hong Kong dollars on the 20th to repurchase 2.58 million shares.
After a long period of accumulation, Hang Seng Technology Index is accelerating its rise! Both Meituan and Alibaba have reached new highs for the year. Is it the right time to make a move?
Under the strong performance of the US stock market, although the interest rate cut may not necessarily lead to a large-scale inflow of global funds into the Hong Kong stock market, at least the upward trend of the RMB exchange rate means that one of the important external factors that has suppressed the Hong Kong stock market for two years has been resolved.
Midday Recap | Hong Kong stocks continue to surge! The Hang Seng Index is up more than 2%; network technology and automotive stocks are performing well, with xpeng rising by about 10% and alibaba reaching a new high in over a year.
Most network technology stocks rose, with SenseTime leading the gains with a more than 6% increase, Bilibili up nearly 4%, Alibaba up more than 3%, Meituan up nearly 3%, Netease and JD.com up more than 1%, and Tencent up nearly 1%.
Announcement Selection | cspc pharma plans to repurchase up to 5 billion Hong Kong dollars of shares; Sun Insurance: Sunshine Life Insurance premium income from January to August is 66.384 billion yuan
China Railway Signal & Communication Corporation (03969.HK) won a total of approximately 2.9 billion yuan worth of projects from July to August; Tencent (00700.HK) spent 1.002 billion Hong Kong dollars on repurchasing 2.6 million shares on September 19; Alibaba-SW (09988.HK) spent 59.977 million US dollars on repurchasing 5.678 million shares on September 18.
US stocks close | Nasdaq rose 2.5%, Dow Jones, S&P hit record highs; chip stocks, Chinese concept stocks shine, Tesla rose more than 7%, Nvidia rose nearly 4%
The US unemployment benefits data strengthens expectations of an economic soft landing, with the Dow Jones breaking the 0.042 million point mark for the first time and the S&P closing above 5700 points for the first time. The Nasdaq rose 3% at one point, the chip index rose 5.7% at one point, the bank index rose nearly 3%, and the Chinese concept index rose over 4%.
IShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF Options Spot-On: On September 19th, 296.61K Contracts Were Traded, With 9.33 Million Open Interest
On September 19th ET, $iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF(EEM.US)$ had active options trading, with a total trading volume of 296.61K options for the day, of which put options accounted for 49.63% of
Express News | Meituan: Bought back 1.706 million shares on September 19th, with a repurchase price per share of HKD 127.8-130.1, with a total cost of approximately HKD 0.22 billion.
Meituan's subsidiary Chengdu Longzhu increased its capital to 1.895 billion yuan. Both the district-level and municipal-level state-owned asset platforms in Chengdu have invested.
Meituan Longzhu's co-founder and partner, Zhu Yonghua, said, "The investment has been determined earlier, but the change is only happening now. Chengdu Longzhu has gathered two investment platforms at the district and city levels in Chengdu. In recent years, Meituan Longzhu has also shifted from initially investing in consumer goods to "hard technology".
Express News | Alibaba has repurchased for two consecutive days, with a total expenditure of nearly 0.12 billion US dollars.
Express News | On the 19th, Tencent Holdings spent 1.002 billion Hong Kong dollars to repurchase 2.6 million shares.
Daily options tracking | Strong surge of over 38%! Intuitive machine with multiple call options makes over 10 times the profit; Interest rate cut stimulates bullish, emerging markets ETF call options surge to 80%
Apple rose nearly 2% overnight, with options volume increasing by nearly double to 1.318 million contracts compared to the previous trading day. The highest volume was for a call option expiring tomorrow with a strike price of $222.5, totaling 0.13 million contracts. In addition, several call options expiring on Friday saw significant gains, with the most impressive increase exceeding twice the initial investment.
The Federal Reserve has finally started an interest rate cut cycle, and a global interest rate cut wave is coming. Is Southeast Asia the biggest winner?
The Fed has signaled a more accommodative stance toward the central banks of emerging markets that have not yet begun to cut interest rates, as there is more room for central banks in Southeast Asia to ease monetary policy, and local market prospects are generally bullish.
Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming: The entry threshold for advanced models will increase to tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of US dollars.
The greatest imagination of generative AI is not to create one or two new super apps on mobile screens, but to take over the digital world and transform the physical world. The entry threshold for the next stage of advanced models is on the scale of tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars. And robots will be the next industry to undergo tremendous changes, where all movable objects in the future will become intelligent robots.
IShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF Options Spot-On: On September 18th, 244.92K Contracts Were Traded, With 9.21 Million Open Interest
On September 18th ET, $iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF(EEM.US)$ had active options trading, with a total trading volume of 244.92K options for the day, of which put options accounted for 19.93% of
Exchange-Traded Funds, Equity Futures Slightly Higher Pre-Bell as Investors Weigh Fed Rate Cut
Daily options tracking | Bullish signals everywhere! Intel's multiple call options have doubled in premium and surged; Gold ETF trading is hot, with the call-to-put ratio climbing to 63%.
Tesla's trading volume yesterday surged 30% compared to the previous trading day, reaching 1.22 million shares. The call option chain skyrocketed to 65%. Among the options chain, the long positions occupy the main position, with the largest volume being the call option with a strike price of $235 expiring this Friday, with a volume of 0.1 million shares.
The Fed has started an interest rate cut cycle, with funds flowing into Chinese assets! Which Hong Kong stocks have taken the lead?
With the stimulus of the upcoming interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, Chinese assets have shown signs of a breakout in recent times. The Hang Seng Tech Index has risen for five consecutive trading days, and several high-performing stocks have also started the market trend this month.
Sensor Tower: In August, Chinese manufacturers accounted for 37.3% of the revenue of the top 100 mobile game publishers in the world.
Sensor Tower's Store Intelligence platform shows that in August 2024, a total of 34 Chinese manufacturers made it to the top 100 global mobile game publishers' revenue list.