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Futures Surge On Beijing Market Rescue, Ukraine Ceasefire Hopes As Fed Rate Hike Looms Normally, the first rate hike in more than four years meant to spark a "shallow" recession and destroy commodity demand would not be viewed positively by markets (unless it leads to another mega QE, which it will), but today is an exception with global stocks and US futures surging after the Kremlin hinted at progress in peace talks with Ukraine, adding to positive sentiment stoked by China’s vow to stabilize its battered markets which sent Hong Kong stocks soaring by the most on record. At 730am, S&P futures are up 1.3%, with Nasdaq futs +1.8% outperforming amid overnight tech action, influencing European sectors, on the back of China''s jawboning stocks higher and constructive commentary from Ukraine''s Zelensky and Russia''s Lavrov. European bourses are also firmer across the board, Euro Stoxx 50 +3.3%, after a firmer handover from the Asia session and on geopolitical optimism. Treasuries were steady and the dollar slipped ahead of the Federal Reserve rates decision.

Beijing Capitulates: Chinese Stocks Soar, Hong Kong Markets Jump By Most Ever After China Vows To Prop Up Markets Yesterday, we had a feeling that China would finally do something to arrest the collapse in its local stocks… HK stocks will rip higher — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 15, 2022 ... and little did we know that just a few hours later we would see the biggest surge in Hong Kong stock history, coupled with a furious surge in China''s CSI300. Two days after we said that JPM''s call that Chinese internet stock are uninvestable and that the bank''s wholesale downgrade of Chinese tech would mark the bottom... Wholesale capitulation. Time to buy pic.twitter.com/eS0xc7vtTD — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 14, 2022 ... not even we had any idea what would happen last then 48 hours later, because after a brutal year for Chinese stocks, on Wednesday long-suffering China bulls finally got their long-awaited payday. The Wednesday session was looking like a tepid bounce off multi-year lows until the headlines started rolling from Beijing... that''s when everything exploded.

Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech companies surged in Hong Kong on Wednesday, lifting the benchmark Hang Seng Index into positive territory after three days of losses.   Stock Movement (+/-)

U.S. indices finished higher Tuesday following a lighter-than-expected PPI report and a drop in oil prices, which helped ease some inflation concerns. Investors continue to watch Russia-Ukraine develo

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU ). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether this is an institution or just a wealthy individual, we don''t know. But when something this big happens with BIDU, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen. So how do we know what this whale just did? Today, Benzinga ''s options scanner spotted 66 uncommon options trades for Baidu. This isn''t normal. The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 46% bullish and 53%, bearish. Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 43 are puts, … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Some big-name Chinese stocks are facing the prospect of getting booted from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq if they refuse to let U.S. regulators see their financial audits. A revived effort by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to gain access to audits of overseas companies that began under former President Donald Trump is continuing under President Joe Biden. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. are among 200-plus companies in the regulator’s crosshairs, and although the p

APPF, BGSF, and BIDU have been added to the Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) List on March 15, 2022.

APPF, BGSF, and BIDU have been added to the Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) List on March 15, 2022.

If there’s been one big winner from bristling India-China border tensions, it has been India’s army of app developers.In June 2020, two weeks after the worst fighting in half a century along their shared border, New Delhi took aim at leading Chinese tech firms including Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, by banning 59 mobile apps. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.The ban was part of New Delhi’s economic retaliation for a clash that it blamed China for instigating – an accusation Beijing has…

Millions in China are under strict lockdowns due to COVID-19 outbreaks

JPMorgan analyst Alex Yao double downgraded Alibaba Group Holding Ltd(NYSE: BABA) to Underweight from Overweight with a price target of $65, down from $180 (21% downside).  Due to rising geopoli

J.P. Morgan "double-downgrades" pretty much every China stock.

J.P. Morgan "double-downgrades" pretty much every China stock.

Chinese stocks, including Alibaba, JD.com and Baidu, were hit by a triple whammy of regulation fears, a Covid-19 resurgence and the Ukraine war.

The five-year revenue growth rate of these companies averaged between 28% and 53%.