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Malaysia saw a record number of Covid-19 cases in a single day on Thursday (Dec 31) with 2,525 cases, says the Health Ministry
This brought the total cumulative number of infections in the country to 113,010, with 23,598 of them being active.
The nation also saw eight new deaths.
“1,481 overnight recovery cases take total recoveries to 88,941 cases, five new clusters identified,” said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic).
He said Selangor recorded the highest number of cases with 1,205 or 47.7% of the entire daily cases on Thursday, followed by Sabah (299) and Melaka (239).
From the figure, there were 13 import cases whereas infections that happened in the country stood at 2,512 cases, he said in a press statement.
Dr Noor Hisham also said there are 131 positive cases that are being treated at the intensive care unit (ICU), where 60 of them required ventilator support.
Source: The Star
Nio is the better way to profit from China’s growing market for electric cars
Two of the most popular stocks on the planet right now are electric vehicle manufacturers Nio and Tesla. Together, they trade about 200 million share daily, thanks in large part to young individual investors hungry for a piece of the action.
Portfolio as of 30 October 2020
| Stock | Invest | Shares | Cost | Price | Profit | % | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCL | 3,944 | 250 | 15.78 | 13.71 | (517) | (13.1%) | 3,428 |
| GE | 2,990 | 300 | 9.97 | 7.42 | (764) | (25.6%) | 2,226 |
| NIO | 1,326 | 340 | 3.90 | 30.58 | 9,071 | 684.0% | 10,397 |
| OXY | 4,062 | 312 | 13.02 | 9.13 | (1,213) | (29.9%) | 2,849 |
| SAVE | 3,588 | 200 | 17.94 | 17.57 | (74) | (2.1%) | 3,514 |
| SIX | 1,388 | 100 | 13.88 | 21.62 | 774 | 55.8% | 2,162 |
| TQQQ | 1,737 | 14 | 120.47 | 117.45 | (93) | (5.3%) | 1,644 |
| Invested: 20,000 | Cash: 6.38 | 26,220 | |||||
| Current: 26,226 | +31%, +6,226 profit | 26,226 | |||||
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that threatens to delist Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com from U.S. exchanges unless U.S. regulators are able to inspect their financial audits within three years.
Of the China-related measures introduced in recent months, the bill could have the broadest impact on investors’ portfolios—though the logistics to implement the measures likely means the fallout won’t be sudden or as drastic as it may sound.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that sets the stage for delisting Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges, including electric-vehicle makers such as XPeng, and Li Auto.
NIO (ticker: NIO) the other highly valued U.S. listed Chinese EV player, believes it’s in compliance with the new law, according to a spokeswoman.
Southeast Asian stocks, hit particularly hard by the shutdown of tourism and other service industries, are making a comeback as optimism grows over a return to travel.
The MSCI Asean Index has surged 14% in an eight-day winning streak, almost double the 7.4% rally in the MSCI Asia Pacific Index over the same period. At its highest since March, the gauge of Southeast Asian shares has narrowed the gap with its peers but still remains down about 14% for the year. The broader Asian gauge is up 8%.
Investors are jumping on Southeast Asian stocks as part of a global rotation into value and out of growth sectors after positive results from a Pfizer Inc. vaccine boosted sentiment.
Governments across the region are looking to ease social distancing measures, with Singapore and Hong Kong announcing Wednesday they will start an air travel bubble replacing quarantine with Covid-19 testing from Nov. 22.
“The vaccine news opens up sectors under great stress like airlines and hotels, ” Leon Goldfeld, head of multi-asset solutions for Asia Pacific at JPMorgan Asset Management, said in a press briefing Wednesday, speaking about the wider trend. “What we’ve seen is a massive rotation in the market from growth to value.”
The value rotation will likely last three to six months and has “some room to run, ” he added.
GE has outperformed its industrial peers in October, as the stock rose to a more than 4-month high before pulling back
Shares of General Electric Co. surged to the highest price seen in four months before pulling back, as Wall Street has gotten a little more optimistic on the outlook ahead of the industrial conglomerate’s earnings report.
The stock GE climbed as much as 4.0% to an intraday high of $8.03, the highest price seen since June 9, before pulling back to trade down 0.7%. It has still soared 23.0% in October, making the stock the best month-to-date performer among the SPDR Industrial Select Sector exchange-traded fund’s XLI components, and the fourth-best performer in the S&P 500.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) appears to have weathered the worst of fiscal year 2020. Now, if the company can get the original deleveraging program back on track, then there is still a good chance for the company to benefit from the acquisition.
No one saw the coronavirus demand destruction when the bidding for Anadarko Petroleum began. Had that been the case, obviously, the bidding, if any, would have been very different.
Now, though, it might be time to look at the “casino stocks” that have a reasonable chance of heading towards investment-grade designation.
Occidental Petroleum is one of those stocks.
THE love-hate relationship between Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) and AirAsia Group Bhd along with entities linked to the latter is no secret to those who watch the aviation industry closely.
The two, together with AirAsia’s long-haul arm AirAsia X Bhd (AAX), work on a symbiotic relationship, or so it seems.
MAHB has slapped AAX with a RM78.16mil lawsuit, just two weeks after the airline announced a restructuring scheme for RM63bil of its debts, in which it expects creditors to take a 99% haircut.
It is also seeking to intervene in AAX’s restructuring scheme to be classified as secured creditors.