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China Market Outperforms

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Publish date: Mon, 21 May 2012, 10:09 AM
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Warrants Highlight

China Market Outperforms

Macquarie is pleased to list the following new China A50 and Noble warrants this morning:

Code Name Type Expiry Exercise Price
QF9W CN8000MBeCW120628 Call 28-Jun-12 8000
QG0W CN7800MBePW120628 Put 28-Jun-12 7800
QF8W NobleGrpMBeCW121105 Call 05-Nov-12 1.20

May has been a volatile month for equity markets globally post the Greek and French elections which saw a hung parliament in Greece and socialist Francois Hollande ousting Nicolas Sarkozy to become the new French President.

Investors did not welcome the results as they were concerned the new candidates, especially in Greece, were pro-growth and anti-austerity, raising fears that one of the peripheral European countries may potentially default and get forced out of the European Union.

China outperforms regional peers
Asian stock markets tumbled over the last 2 weeks, but China outperformed its peers. The table below shows the percentage decline in regional bourses over the last two weeks post the European elections:

China A50: -5.6%
STI: -7.1%
Nikkei 225: -8.2%
HSI: -10.1%
KOSPI: -10.4%

The FTSE China A50 index tracks the performance of the 50 largest A-share companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange. It includes mega-names like Ping An Insurance, China Merchants Bank and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. The index gives investors a broad exposure to the China story.

The A-share market is largely reserved for domestic Chinese investors and certain institutions participating in the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) programme, and are relatively shielded from global fund withdrawals as witnessed in the other stock markets.

Why trade the China A50 warrants?
Investors can trade the China A50 warrants to gain a leveraged exposure to China’s domestic stock market. They can enjoy this leverage inherent in the instrument without margin calls associated with other leveraged instruments. Thus they their capital at risk is limited to the amount they have decided to invest in warrants.

Bullish investors may consider call warrants, and bearish investors may consider put warrants. www.warrants.com.sg provides FREE live pricing and real time intra-day charts for investors to monitor the Chinese market.

 

Singapore Market Wrap

A Week of Carnage

With little positive developments from the European crisis, the STI tumbled 3.3% week-on-week (wow) to 2,786.91. QF0W (Keppel Corp), QC6W (DBS), P1VW (OCBC) and P0ZW (CapitaLand) were the most active single stock warrants last week, with more than 18mn warrants changing hands in each:

Call KepCorp MBeCW121001 (QF0W) exercise price $10.50.*
Call DBS MB eCW120904 (QC6W) exercise price $14.00.*
Call OCBC Bk MBeCW120802 (P1VW) exercise price $9.00.*
Call CapitalaMBeCW120903 (P0ZW) exercise price $2.582.*

Commodity stocks in focus
The commodity players have not scored well since the start of the earnings season. Last week, Olam (-16.4% wow, $1.73) tumbled after reporting a 23% year-on-year decline in 3Q net profit to $98.7mn. The management said that the Industrial Raw Materials and Commodity Financial Services are expected to continue to pose a drag to its Q4 earnings.

Other commodity players, Sakari Resources (-9.9% wow, $1.585), Wilmar (-8.5% wow, $3.79) and IndoFood Agri (-8.0% wow, $1.27), were sold down sharply last week.

Call OLAM MB eCW121005 (QF2W) exercise price $2.00.*
Call SakariMBeCW121102 (QE1W) exercise price $1.95.*
Call Wilmar MBeCW121102 (QF1W) exercise price $4.60.*
Call IndoAgriMBeCW121101 (QD6W) exercise price $1.50.*

Sale speculations kept STX OSV afloat
It was a volatile week for STX OSV (8.4% wow, $1.61). It rose more than 14% in the first few days of the week on expectations that its parent company will announce a preferred bidder for its stake within the week. However, STX OSV shares pared some of its gains as there were no official announcements and investors speculated that there could be a delay in the share sale.

Call STXOSV MB eCW120801 (P2VW) exercise price $1.80.*

 

Overnight Market Wrap

Facebook Hype Ended Marginally Positive

US Stocks fell on Friday, extending the biggest weekly loss since November. The S&P500 fell 4.3% week-on-week to 1,295.22. Facebook shares debuted after Nasdaq's 2-hour technical delay. Its shares rose only 0.6% from its IPO price of US$38.

Over the weekend, G8 leaders met in US Camp David to discuss about the eurozone crisis. The leaders stressed that it is in everyone's interest for Greece to remain in the Euro. On a separate note, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that the Spanish banks will not need a European rescue package.

Overnight Markets

Indices Last Change
STI 2779.10 -1.5%
HSI 18951.85 -1.3%
DJIA 12369.38 -0.6%
S&P 500 1295.22 -0.7%
Nasdaq 2778.79 -1.2%


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