MSCI EM

Representing a major segment of EM stocks, TATS are the Asian 'FANGs', and they just suffered their worst week on record.

Taiwan Semi, Alibaba, Tencent, and Samsung are TATS and account for over 16% of the MSCI EM Stock index (considerably more than FANG stocks represent in the S&P).

TATS have traded lower for 4 of the last 5 days - tumbling almost 8% to one month lows...

Tencent is the biggest loser...

The biggest weekly drop in the history of the 4 stocks...

Overnight no BTFD in these names.

Following the new all-time high in US equities, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index broke through its November 2007 peak to make an all-time high in Wednesday’s trading session. This was something we noted could happen yesterday in “SocGen: Asian Equities Are So Awesome, A China Minsky Moment Is ‘Manageable”. The dollar weakened slightly after outgoing Fed Chairman, Janet Yellen, cautioned against interest rates rising too quickly in one of her last Q&As at NYU on Tuesday evening.

It's that time of the year again when with just a few weeks left in the year, Goldman unveils its top trade recommendations for the year ahead. And while Goldman's Top trades for 2016 was an abysmal disaster, with the bank getting stopped out with a loss on virtually all trade recos within weeks after the infamous China crash in early 2016, its 2017 "top trade" recos did far better.

July was a great month for virtually all asset classes (at least those tracked by Deutsche Bank) with the notable exception of what, which tumbled after surging previously.

Last February we described some of the "horror stories" of corporate leverage that emerged as a result of China's unprecedented offshore M&A spree that emerged in 2015 and raged through most of 2016: after all, with over $100 billion in foreign acquisitions, the bulk of the funding would inevitably come from debt. These were some of the examples we highlighted: