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Contraction In Real M1 Has Been Weighing on EM Cyclical Stocks

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  • Today, we saw that the annual change in China real M1 money supply, which we compute as the difference between M1 money supply and PPI inflation, continued to fall in June down 3.3% YoY from -2.9% the previous month.
  • Historically, we have seen that China real M1 money growth has acted as a strong leading liquidity indicator for risky assets and especially cyclical stocks (i.e. Financials).
  • This chart shows that China real M1 has historically led EM financials by 6 months.
  • Could the rise in uncertainty associated to the Delta variant and the sharp contraction in Chinese liquidity continue to weigh on cyclical stocks in the medium term?

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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