The Federal Reserve’s 75bps rate hike is clearly going to have a negative impact on EM sovereign debt and housing markets in Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond. Commodity exporters will be less vulnerable than commodity importers. I wrote about these topics and more in this post about seven key macro trends in Asia ($).

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• I wrote a report on Hong Kong-based toy OEM Dream International (1126 HK — US$203 million) ($)

• Compounder fund with a sell thesis on JD.com (JD US — US$102 billion)

• Value Punks on Southeast Asian ride hailing platform Grab (GRAB US — US$8.9 billion)

• Kenkyo Investing on micro-cap cram school operator Meiko Network Japan (4668 JP — US$122 million)

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• I wrote down thoughts on the key seven macro trends in Asia (15 mins) ($)

• Last Bear Standing with a great primer on the Fed’s balance sheet (11 mins)

• Interview with energy specialist Nelson Wu at Open Square Capital (16 mins)

• Variant Perception on BoJ’s dovish policy stance (1 min)

• The Market Sentiment Substack is bearish on the NFT market (7 mins)

• Lillian Li on private Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (9 mins)

• Thought-provoking interview with geopolitics expert Edward Luttwak (43 mins)

• Searching 4 value’s review of Stephen Caitlin’s book Risk & Reward, about the property & casualty insurance industry (6 mins)

• Freightwaves on the carnage among container shipping stocks (4 mins)

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• Bridgewater’s Greg Jensen on BoJ’s policy and the USD (11 mins)

• Short-seller Jim Chanos thinks there’s more pain to come (58 mins)

• Energy expert Anas Alhajji from the 15” mark on a coming oil crisis (1:33 hours)

• RenTech’s Jim Simons on mathematics, common sense and luck (45 mins)

• Aswath Damodaran on how inflation affects company valuations (1:55 hours)

• Paul Beach on the global battery market (38 mins)

• Beyond the Boardroom with a special episode on Asian activism (40 mins)

• Professor Wes Gray on portfolio construction (1:06 hours)

• Doug O'Laughlin from the Fabricated Knowledge Substack on the semiconductor industry (1:15 hours)

(Announced buybacks last week; randomly selected; min market cap: US$200m)

1. Sinotrans Limited (598 HK — US$3.7 billion)

2. Ming Yuan Cloud Group (909 HK — US$2.7 billion)

3. Yangzijiang Financial (YZJFH SP — US$1.3 billion)

4. Cogobuy Group (400 HK — US$411 million)

5. Shinko Shoji (8141 JP — US$241 million)

(Stocks with insider buys <7 days; randomly selected; min market cap: US$200m)

1. Regional Container Line: US$239k (RBF TB — US$993 million)

2. Ta Ann Holdings: US$190k (TAH MK — US$438 million)

3. Straits Trading: US$80k (STRTR SP — US$910 million)

4. Siamgas & Petrochem: US$40k (SGP TB — US$534 million)

5. MBK PCL: US$10k (MBK TB — US$725 million)

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