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EM Financials - Cheap, But Risky!

EMERGING MARKETS

Executive summary

  • Even though EM financials still appear ‘cheap’ based on a range of ‘fair value’ metrics, the current risk-off environment could continue to weigh on cyclical stocks.
  • With growth expectations likely to be reviewed significantly to the downside, performance of financial equities could start to plunge in the coming months.
  • In addition, China real money growth has also been pricing lower EM financials in the past 6 months.

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The sharp contraction in China M1 money supply questions the sustainability of the momentum in EM cyclical stocks. The chart below that China real M1 money growth, which we compute as the difference between M1 YoY and PPI inflation, has strongly led EM cyclical stocks (financials) by 6 months in the past cycle.

Source: Bloomberg/MNI.

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