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Matein Khalid Morgan Stanley has evolved into one of the world’s preeminent wealth management franchises and dramatically reduced its exposure to volatile securities trading in a major strategy shift under its former CEO James Gorman. His acquisitions of E-Trade, Eaton Vance and the Smith Barney brokerage platform from Citigroup have enabled its client assets to grow to a colossal $6.5 trillion and provide the anchor for secular […]

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Matein Khalid I had flagged Nvidia in this platform as a must own chip stock on the eve of the AI revolution just before its historic Q2 earnings call in May 2023. Fast forward two years and Nvidia earnings are up 10X while its share price is up 8X since my post as it flirts with a $4 trillion market cap that awaits if the shares trade at […]

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Matein Khalid Sri Lanka is one of the most fascinating and drop-dead gorgeous countries I have ever visited, the island once known as Serendip by ancient Umayyad Arab sailors/ruby merchants and Ceylon by the colonial Dutch and British who once ruled the island, an emerald tear drop in the Indian Ocean. I have a special bond with Sri Lanka because my late mother, an artist, used to […]

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Matein Khalid Both Israel and the US were careful not to target Iran’s oil export terminal at Kharg Island, a major reason why Brent crude trades at 68 and not 100. It is ironic that Iran’s oil output is now 5.1-MBD (this figure includes condensates and gas to liquids), its exact amount in 1978, the last year the Shah ruled from his Peacock Throne. There is no […]

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Matein Khalid My generation were teenagers in the late 1970’s and thus passionate fans of Sweden since Abba dominated the Top of the Pops (God, how I hated the ghastly Dancing Queen since every girl in high school thought this syrupy pop tune was written specifically for her!) and Björn Borg dominated Centre Court at Wimbledon as the Men’s Champion until the trophy was wrested from him […]

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Matein Khalid The past decade dramatically illustrates the peril of trusting paper money as a store of value in a political system designed to pivot recklessly towards deficit financing and deliberate debasement of the world’s reserve currency. The US national debt is now $37 trillion and the annual budget deficit is now $2 trillion or 125% of GDP. Add political gridlock in Washington, violent migrant riots in […]

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Matein Khalid It is ironic that Brent crude collapsed from its $78 high on the New York Merc to as low as 66.80 in early Singapore trading even though Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched a missile strike on America’s largest military base in the Gulf in Qatar. This retaliatory strike was polite, measured and apologetic with advance notice given to Centcom to avoid any US military casualties. Trump […]

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Matein Khalid Operation Midnight Hammer was a spectacular military success though it will take 60 years more for the top secret CIA files on Trump’s rendezvous with history at Fordo to be declassified even though I hope Centcom and the Pentagon generals will release their BDA (Battle Damage Assessments) in the next two weeks to reinforce their claim that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear assets beneath the mountain […]

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Matein Khalid The India-Pakistan war in May and the Iran-Iraq war that rages as I write only reinforces my conviction that wars will be won or lost via a access to the latest missile air defense, stealth fighter jet platforms, ballistic hypersonic missile, power projection capabilities and state of the art ISR (intelligence surveillance reconnaissance) defense technologies. A nation without these capabilities is akin to a Stone […]

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Matein Khalid The deployment of 30 US air-fueling tankers to the Middle East strongly suggests that Trump has decided to escalate the war with Iran with an American led strike on the underground nuclear site at Fordo. Since the B-2 Spirit super bombers would need tankers to refuel their fighter escort. Ali Khamenei’s tweet threatening America was precisely the wrong message to send to Trump at a […]

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Matein Khalid There is precious little good news to emerge from the Middle East since the IDF launched its spectacular blitzkrieg and leadership decapitation strike against Iran’s nuclear asset and military/intelligence elite last Friday. This weekend was grim with Iran’s ballistic missile strike on Haifa and Tel Aviv with even a real miss on the IDF command and control complex in Kirya. Netanyahu’s boast that he would […]

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Matein Khalid I have had a neurological soft corner for Wall Street’s alternative asset manager stocks ever since I resisted the come hither importunings of multiple Morgan Stanley (MS) managing directors before the firm sold its private wealth division in the DIFC to Credit Suisse. Everyone of these MS honchos wanted me to subscribe to the Blackstone IPO in the summer of 2007 at $32. They assured […]

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Matein Khalid Dr. Copper supposedly boasts a doctorate in economic forecasting because its price predicts inflection points in the global industrial cycle and Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) is the largest listed copper miner on earth, with gold and oil drilling businesses as ancillary SBUs. Dr. Copper is not exactly my fav prognosticator of the economic cycle but I do notice a mini price breakout of the red metal on […]

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Matein Khalid My macro crystal ball begins to vibrate ominously whenever a perma-bull talking head joins the Squawk Box on CNBC, my spiritual, philosophical and financial lodestar in life and La Dolce Vita of the mercati monetari globali. After all, our beautiful business began as a money lender’s bench in Renaissance Florence 600 years ago and if we ever ran out of cash, they ruptured our banco […]

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Matein Khalid While I never ​ever found diamonds in any coal mine, the truth is​ I never looked since I never really believed that De Beers/James Bond propaganda that diamonds are forever. In fact, my ​i​ndustry sixth sense​ tells me that diamonds are forever – worthless. I guess, my only investment in diamonds was a romantic one when I proposed to my then GF and now proud […]

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Matein Khalid The fallout from the Moody’s downgrade is unfolding exactly as I guesstimated it would in my Sunday afternoon post. The 10 Year US Treasury note yield is now 4.54% and 30 year money is now 5.02%. So my 2/10 and 2/30 US Treasury note bear steepener strategy is oozing green – so far. Gold is also a classic haven from the fiscal Frankenstein that is […]

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Matein Khalid While I was not surprised by Moody’s decision to cut the sovereign credit rating of the US from Aaa to Aa1 since I have done my best to warn my friends in this post about the King Dollar’s vulnerable underbelly on debt/deficits, I am surprised that the credit rating agencies is willing to risk the wrath of Trump White House with this move. After all, […]

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Matein Khalid The US Treasury bond market is unnerved by Powell’s reluctance to cut rates at the May FOMC and increasing short bets on long duration Uncle Sam IOUs by the world’s biggest hedge funds. This is the reason the 2-year Treasury note yield, the single security most sensitive to changes in expectation of US central bank monetary policy, has risen 15 basis points this week to […]

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Matein Khalid I was neurologically programmed to disbelieve every communique issued by the Indian or Pakistani military in the wartime and thus missed the spectacular 50% rise in the shares of A​VIC Chengdu Aircraft, a Shenzhen listed vendor of the $39 million J-10 fighter jet that downed three Indian ​$250 million Rafales, a MiG-29 and Sukhoi-30 while Frenc​h, British and US intelligence told sources in Reuters, Bloomberg, […]

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Matein Khalid The smoke signals from Geneva came even faster than the one in the Vatican that announced the arrival of Pope Leo XIV on the world stage. If the US-China trade marathon was a Bollywood movie, Scott Bessant would be​ ​dancing wet and wild with the Chinese Vice Premier Lifeng in their Jet d’Eau or kowt​owing on those little abraas that criss-cross the Rhône river​ since […]

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Matein Khalid ​I spent a wonderful afternoon with an​ old friend​, a Persian prince in his cousin’s Jumeirah villa to heal from the trauma of multiple Hindutva chick​en hawks keyboard warriors berating me for​ pointing out the fact that Dassault Aviation shares have fallen 3% in Paris while the Chinese J-10CE fighter jet (Vigorous Dragon) soared 20% in Shenzhen. Only a moron with a Stone Age IQ […]

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Matein Khalid I  have not exactly been reticent in my conviction since last autumn that King Dollar was on the precipice of a seminal monetary regime shift that could mean 40% downside risk on its trade weighted index, as in 2001-06. Yet not in my wildest dreams did I anticipate that the New Taiwan dollar would surge 8% against the greenback, its best performance in 42 years, in […]

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Matein Khalid He was a handsome young Gen-Z kid from Dubai, son of a Sindhi family long settled in the UAE, only a few years older than my twins. I can just imagine him as a toddler, all decked out in ​Babyshop diapers, then a little guy having his birthday bash with his classmates at McDonalds​ or Kidzania, as an IHS student on a school bus in […]

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