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Why China's Rally Won't Have Legs

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by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Oct 03, 2024 - 12:05 AM

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By Dhaval Joshi, chief strategist at BCA Research

  • Absent the multi-decade housing and construction boom, China will be unable to generate the monster credit impulses that it did through 2000-20.

  • Hence, the recent melt-up in Chinese stocks and China plays may last a few weeks more but is unlikely to be a rerun of the 2015 episode either in magnitude or in duration.

  • Close the tactical overweight in global materials (MXI) at its time limit on October 3, and long copper versus gold at its time limit on October 12.

When a positive market catalyst meets a deeply oversold market, you get a market melt-up. That in a nutshell explains the recent sugar rush in Chinese stocks and China plays. The positive catalyst was the unveiling of a new stimulus cycle. And the collapsed complexity of the preceding price downtrend screamed that China plays were ripe for a melt-up (Chart 1).

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