Key Benchmarks Performance Hong Kong stocks tumbled and the benchmark Hang Seng index had a rocky start to the new year. It headed for the worst January since 2016 amid renewed concerns about corporate earnings and China’s economic recovery outlook. The Hang Seng Index has lost 9.2%, set for the worst start to a year since a 10% slide in the first month of 2016. Last year it was the worst-performing major market in the world. Hong Kong’s historic slump are because of some of China’s most influential and innovative firms are listed. Beijing’s stringent anti-Covid-19 curbs, regulatory crackdowns on

What’s priced in is a question being asked a lot these days. How much of this current and future bad news is now fully reflected in stock prices? Is it time to start bargain shopping? It would be a fool’s errand to answer these questions with so much uncertainty facing markets. However, we can share with you a tool that can help look at current growth rates now priced in. To do this, we turn to the StarMine Intrinsic Valuation model. Used conventionally, this is a three-stage Dividend Discount Model that uses sell-side estimates for individual equities, adjusts those according

The new coronavirus (designated 2019-nCoV) has exploded in China during the Chinese New Year (CNY) holidays, killing more than 400 people and infecting over 20,000 people in China as of Feb 3rd. All countries are struggling to control its spread and the virus has triggered some big concerns and negative impacts for China and global financial markets. The initial outbreak of the virus escalated just before CNY holidays. China is the most populous nation on Earth with nearly 1.4 billion people, and Chinese consumers spent more than 1 trillion yuan ($145 billion) last year on holiday shopping, dining, entertainment, and