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Babel Finance : 2021–2022 Crypto Asset Market Predictions

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 11 March 2022 – Babel Finance Asset Management’s research specialists are optimistic about the long-term value of crypto assets. Since the currency’s birth, long-term Bitcoin(BTC) investors have profited handsomely, and more and more traditional financial institutions are realizing it. Financial institutions increasingly adopt crypto-asset markets, as seen by the high trade volumes recorded by Babel Finance’s crypto trading division. The […]

Babel Finance: 2021-2022 Crypto Asset Market Report

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – The research experts at Babel Finance’s Hong Kong and Singapore offices are confident in the long-term worth of crypto assets. Crypto-asset markets are evolving fast, long-term Bitcoin(BTC) investors have reaped substantial gains since the currency’s inception, and more and more conventional financial institutions are recognizing it. 2021 wreaked devastation worldwide due to the COVID-19 outbreak, posing a threat […]

A New Global Energy Order Emerging With US Supplies As Pivot

Financial Sanctions: Bitcoin Is A Big Gainer In The Russia-Ukraine War

George Liu, a veteran commodity trader, has been named the new Head of Derivatives at Babel Finance

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 23 February 2022 – George Liu has been named head of derivatives at Babel Trading by crypto financial services provider Babel Finance, a newly formed role for the company’s trading arm. The move coincides with Babel Finance’s investment in developing more complex and tailored crypto-asset financial products with traditional finance features for institutional and HNWI clients and improving internal risk control and […]

Horror show on Wall Street

By Matein Khalid The wicked witch of Wall Street waved her ursine broomstick over the global financial market in mid-November and all hell broke loose on the US equity indices. The Nasdaq was slammed by 18% at its recent 13,350 low and has broken its 200 day moving average and dozens of its high multiple components are down 30, 40 and even 50% from their highs. The […]

Carousell Media Group Launches Connect to Provide an Alternative to Walled Gardens

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 January 2022 – Carousell Media Group, the advertising arm of Carousell Group (Carousell, Mudah.my, ChoTot, OneKyat and Ox Street) today launched Connect. Connect is a first-of-its-kind recommerce programmatic buying platform that deploys best-in-class DSP ad-technology, and is powered by the buying, selling and search data signals generated from the Carousell Media Group’s tens of millions of monthly users across Greater Southeast Asia (Southeast Asia, Taiwan […]

MIPIM ASIA Awards Celebrates 15th Anniversary and Announces Accolades of the Finest Developments in Asia Pacific

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 December 2021 – MIPIM Asia Awards 2021 returns for another year on their 15th birthday showcasing the best of the best in real estate, proudly presenting awards to winning projects and celebrating live yesterday night with full respect to health and safety measures, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong.   An exciting close to the finale of the MIPIM Asia Summit, the […]

Grade-A Commercial Complex HDH Centre Completed International Prestigious Home Appliances Brand Bosch Flagship Store Among the Firsts to Move in

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 December 2021 – H Development Holdings Limited (H Development, or the Group) is pleased to announce the completion of HDH Centre, its headquarters commercial complex located at 1 Irving Street in Causeway Bay, in December 2021. Boasting a rich array of outstanding qualities, HDH Centre has already secured occupancy from world-renowned premium brands. Among the first tenants is Bosch, […]

Killer virus does what Biden couldn’t

By Matein Khalid Brent crude is now down 11% to 73 and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is now down a shocking 13% at 68. President Biden may wish to remember the old Persian proverb “do not wish for anything too badly. You may just get it”. Biden had green lighted a release from the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) last week but oil traders actually bid up […]

OIL, GAME THEORY AND REALPOLITIK

By Matein Khalid Von Neumann’s Game Theory can model strategic behaviour in the global oil market, as once Admiral Yamamoto used it to model the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the IDF used it to model Israel’s pre-emptive strike against Nasser’s Egypt in June 1967. So the US strategic reserves release signals the Biden White House’s displeasure with petro-inflation. Biden’s move was priced into the oil […]

Black hole of emerging markets

Matein Khalid The Middle Kingdom has been a black hole for emerging markets equitywalas since mid-2020. The PBOC kept monetary policy far too tight at a time when the global pandemic necessitated some credit acceleration. The economic slowdown after the Wuhan virus was worse than Street consensus. The property developer Evergrande’s $300 billion debt woes unnerved the Chinese banking system and yuan debt market. The geopolitical rhetoric […]

Religious fanaticism has a field day

James M Doresy Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism is having a field day. Barely three months after the Taliban claimed victory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority state, is moving to join Kabul in becoming an outpost of religious intolerance and Muslim supremacy. In doing so, Pakistan, alongside Afghanistan, has come down on the side of countries like Turkey and Iran that advocate various forms of political […]

MIPIM Asia Awards 2021 Today Reveals the Finest of the Real Estate Industry

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 25 October 2021 – Where the best of the best in real estate competes to win in Asia’s leading regional property awards, the MIPIM Asia Awards 2021 is proud to reveal and congratulate the chosen projects for overcoming the hurdles brought by COVID-19 and for upholding industry standards to the highest level.   This year, 33 property developments have been recognized by the […]

8 Harbord Square: London’s First Blank Canvas Homes for the Creatively Adventurous

LONDON, UK – Media OutReach – 22 October 2021 – New to the market, 8 Harbord Square is a collection of 82 loft style apartments, inspired by the history of the London docklands and Canary Wharf and influenced by the warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan. Designed completely open plan with no fixed walls and exposed interior features, purchasers can enjoy lifelong autonomy to shape their homes to match their […]

Small Luxury Hotels of the World pushes on with Expansion in China with 4 New Hotels

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 21 October 2021 – Small Luxury Hotels of the World continues its expansion as the brand welcomes 4 member hotels including 3 new openers to its China portfolio. SLH now has 20 hotels in Greater China (including 15 hotels in mainland China), making it the largest collection of members in the Asia-Pacific. Mark Wong, Senior Vice-President Asia-Pacific of SLH said: “At SLH we champion […]

Energy best performing sector

Matein Khalid My periodic please-all summer asking my friends to accumulate energy stocks on the 77-65 Brent sell off in July has been vindicated with a vengeance this autumn as energy is the best performing sector in both September and October with the XLE now up a stellar 46%, who could have imagined that Oxy would rise from 10 to 35 when Brent was $35, the world […]

Still skittish about October market

Matein Khalid The history of Wall Street has taught me to be nervous on Mondays in October. This Monday is also crowded with meetings with strategic partners and friends from across the seas and the Gulf. So my market call must be short and sweet. I had given 10 reasons why September augured to be a dodgy month for the US stock market. Despite Friday’s impressive index […]

A disaster since summer

Matein Khalid Brazil stock market performance unfortunately vindicates General Charles de Gaulle’s morose prediction “Brazil is a country of the future and always will be”. In my Wall Street salad days, we were neurologically programmed to buy Brazilian equities when crude oil/soft commodities price boomed, when the global economic growth was in acceleration mode and when a right wing pro-Uncle Sam President with close ties to the […]

A cow ready to be milked

Matein Khalid I had recommended a strategic buy on Airbnb (ABNB) at 137 in July after a 20-point hit as I saw multiple catalysts for a bull run (https://lnkd.in/gEfT4Bwy). Since ABNB opened at 176 on Nasdaq today, I have now decided that I have to milk this cow via leveraged longs/put sales/out of the money calls to an obscene scale and the risk/reward calculus on high valuation […]

Evergrande need not be Lehman 2.0

Matein Khalid My call to buy the US stock market last night when the Dow was down 850 to 950 points is a money maker for now, as the Dow futures are up 250 points in the pre-market after an incredible 300 point rally in the last hour of trading on the NYSE last night. Faint heart never won fair lady or sold index put spreads at […]

Latest mini Black Monday

Matein Khalid I came into our latest mini Black Monday with a large net short position in my global equities portfolio and thus feel vindicated, because I had warned my friends on LinkedIn (https://lnkd.in/d6Dy3rEC) to beware a post Labour Day hit on major US equities indices. In fact, I had given 10 reasons why the US stock market was primed to tank and one of these reasons […]

Weakest economic recovery since WW II

Matein Khalid The sheer scale of the Federal Reserve’s post-Lehman quantitative easing experiment can be gauged by the fact that its balance sheet is now $8.3 trillion or 1/3 the American GDP. In contrast, on the eve of Lehman Brothers failure on 15 Sept 2008, The Fed’s balance sheet was a mere $900 billion. Yet the Bernanke Fed’s revolutionary experiments in monetary policy applied by J. Powell […]

An act of shamelessness and self-delusion

Matein Khalid The civilized world watches in horror as the Taliban flogs women on the streets of Kabul with whips and cable wire, maims arrested journalists with truncheons and reinstates the Ministry of Virtue and Vice. The religious police that carried out executions, amputation, beheading and stoning to death of women that so disgusted the world in 1996 to 2001. It is also no coincidence that Afghan […]