Daily Morning Note – 20 April 2022
Asian stocks look set for a steady open Wednesday as investors weigh cross-currents including a rally in U.S. shares, a surge in Treasury yields and lower oil prices.
Futures rose for Japan and Australia, while Hong Kong’s were steady. U.S. contracts fell following an after-hours Netflix Inc. slump on disappointing subscriber numbers, which tempered the optimism from the S&P 500 rally.
Treasury yields jumped across the curve Tuesday. Short-end rates led the move, while the 30-year yield rose above 3% for the first time in three years. Expectations of sharp Federal Reserve policy tightening to tackle high inflation continue to build. Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said interest rates will probably rise above the neutral level.
Oil held losses after the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s Covid lockdowns.
Investors are waiting to see whether loan prime rates fall in China. Measures to support the Covid-hit economy have so far failed to impress investors. The offshore yuan was around its weakest level in six months.
Stocks to watch: Nanofilm Technologies
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Mainboard-listed Nanofilm Technologies posted a 27 per cent increase in revenue year on year in the first quarter of 2022. In its business update released on Tuesday (Apr 19), the nanotechnology solutions provider noted that its advanced materials business unit contributed 81 per cent of revenue in the first quarter. The consumer electronics, communication and computers (3C) segment contributed 77.8 per cent of revenue within the unit. “Barring any potential logistics and production challenges arising from the Covid-19 situation in China, the 3C segment’s business pipeline visibility is strong, as the group enters into its typical peak season in the second half of the year,” the company said. Its nanofabrication business unit contributed 6 per cent of its revenue in the first quarter of the year. Mass production projects such as its micro-lens array project for wearables’ sensors and a Fresnel lens project led the unit.
LHN Logistics lodged its final offer document on Tuesday (Apr 19) as its parent company, property player LHN Group, looks to spin off and list its logistics arm. Through the initial public offering (IPO), LHN Logistics will raise approximately S$5 million through the listing of 25,238,000 placement shares at S$0.20 each. The net proceeds will amount to approximately S$3.6 million, after deducting the estimated listing expenses payable in cash by the company. S$3.2 million of the net proceeds will go towards the partial financing of the construction of the company’s ISO tank depot at 7 Gul Avenue, while the remainder will go towards the expansion of the company’s transportation fleet and acquisition of moving equipment.
Mall and office landlord Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT) posted a 2.8 per cent rise in distribution per unit (DPU) to S$0.03393 for the second half-year ended Mar 31, 2022, up from S$0.03299 a year earlier. Gross revenue was up 4.9 per cent to S$211.2 million for the half-year period, from S$201.3 million a year earlier. Net property income (NPI) grew 5.1 per cent to S$160.1 million for the half-year, from S$152.3 million. Distributable income rose 5.6 per cent to S$119.7 million, up from S$113.3 million a year earlier. In its financial results released on Tuesday (Apr 19), MNACT’s manager attributed the increase in gross revenue and NPI to lower rental reliefs granted to retail tenants at Festival Walk, a shopping mall located in Kowloon Tong district, Hong Kong. Rental reliefs in the H2 FY2022 stood at S$10 million, lower than the S$14.9 million a year earlier.
Mainboard-listed telco Singtel said in a bourse filing on Tuesday (Apr 19) that its Australian subsidiary, Singapore Telecom Australia Investments (STAI) has filed an appeal to the Full Federal Court of Australia regarding an unfavourable judgement it had received earlier. The judgement relates to Singtel’s earlier failed appeal attempt against a tax assessment related to the acquisition financing of its Australian subsidiary, Singtel Optus, in 2001. In a business update on Feb 15, 2022, the company said that it would defer the payment of primary tax, interest and penalties until the due legal process is completed. In 2016 and 2017, STAI received amended assessments from the Australian Taxation Office amounting to A$393 million in primary tax, interest and penalties. While the final tax determination has yet to be set, Singtel has made provisions totalling S$316 million.
Office-focuse Keppel Pacific Oak US Reit (KORE) said its first-quarter distributable income rose 10.9 per cent to US$16.6 million, up from US$14.9 million in the same period the year before. In its Q1 FY2022 business update released on Tuesday (Apr 19), the real estate investment trust’s (Reit) manager also reported that gross revenue rose 6.9 per cent to US$37 million, up from US$34.6 million a year earlier. Net property income (NPI) rose 6.7 per cent to US$21.7 million, up from US$20.4 million a year ago. NPI excluding non-cash straight-line rent, lease incentives and amortisation of leasing commissions rose 7.1 per cent to US$22 million.
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Investors are rapidly exiting stocks, with US equities seeing their biggest weekly outflows of the year as recession fears take hold. US equity funds had outflows of US$15.5 billion in the week through Apr 13, while European funds experienced a ninth straight week of outflows, Bank of America Corp strategists wrote, citing EPFR Global data. The bank’s private clients – with US$3.2 trillion of assets under management – also exited stocks in the largest amount since November. The outflows come as concerns about recession dominate markets, according to strategists led by Michael Hartnett. “Everyone fears it,” with food and energy prices surging, he wrote in a note.
The International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist said on Tuesday he is concerned about increasing signals that inflation expectations are on the rise and may become entrenched at elevated levels, prompting more aggressive monetary policy tightening in advanced economies. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, who started transitioning to the IMF’s economic counsellor role in January, told Reuters in an interview that the war in Ukraine, which is causing energy and food prices to spike, may damage expectations for decades-high inflation to start to subside this year. A “very, very tight labour market” in the United States is increasing demands for wage increases to “catch up” with higher prices that could help entrench inflationary expectations, the French-born former University of California-Berkeley economist said.
Oil prices were down about 5 per cent in volatile trading on Tuesday on demand concerns after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its economic growth forecasts and warned of higher inflation. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell US$5.91, or 5.22 per cent, to settle at US$107.25 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate dropped US$5.65, or 5.22 per cent, to settle at US$102.56 a barrel. Prices declined despite lower output from Opec+, which produced 1.45 million barrels per day (bpd) below its targets in March, as Russian output began to decrease following sanctions imposed by the West over its invasion of Ukraine, according to a report from the producer alliance seen by Reuters.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its forecast for global economic growth by nearly a full percentage point, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, and warning that inflation was now a “clear and present danger” for many countries. The war is expected to slow growth and further increase inflation, the IMF said in its latest World Economic Outlook, while warning that its forecast was marked by “unusually high uncertainty.” Further sanctions on Russian energy and a widening of the war, a sharper-than-forecast deceleration in China and a renewed flare-up of the pandemic could further slow growth and boost inflation, while rising prices could trigger social unrest. The global lender, which downgraded its forecasts for the second time this year, said it now projects global growth of 3.6 per cent in 2022 and 2023, a drop of 0.8 and 0.2 percentage point from its January forecast, given the war’s direct impacts on Russia and Ukraine and global spillovers.
Source: SGX Masnet, The Business Times, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, CNBC, PSR
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