📑 Research Notes for 2022-02-28
This week, we have an Ukraine invasion special. We look at China's stance on the situation, Putin's Latin American moves, SWIFT bans, and the new China-Russia-India financial network.
We conduct extensive investment research and share the most interesting content that we come across every week. Here is a curated list of this week’s top observations.
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China Blames U.S. for Ukraine Invasion.
(MHFIN)
The Minksy Moment is defined as a sudden, major collapse of asset values that marks the end of the growth phase in a market cycle. On its surface, it's a boring, bland finance concept coined by Paul McCulley of PIMCO in 1998 to describe the Russian financial crisis. But before you click off this video and brush this off as a textbook econ lesson, the Minsky Moment could very likely become to defining term of a generation. A notion that potentially describes the house of cards that is the modern American economy.
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Russia Moves into U.S.’s Backyard.
(Stratfor)
In this episode, RANE Latin America Analyst Carmen Colosi looks at recent Russia outreach to some U.S. neighbors. Amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine, we have seen Russian officials suggest that Moscow could increase military and economic cooperation with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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Western Countries Ban Russia from SWIFT.
(AP News)
The United States and European nations agreed Saturday to impose the most potentially crippling financial penalties yet on Russia over its unrelenting invasion of Ukraine, going after the central bank reserves that underpin the Russian economy and severing some Russian banks from a vital global financial network.
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India-Russia-China Have Been Exploring An Alternative to SWIFT.
(Economic Times)
India, Russia, and China have been exploring an alternative to the US-dominated SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payment mechanism in a bid to smoothen trade with countries facing American sanctions, for some time. Russia’s financial messaging system SPFS will be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS.
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Last Week’s Market Performance Heatmap
(FinViz)
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Curated by Joseph Lu, CFA®
Joseph is the founder and managing director of Conscious Capital Advisors and a CFA® Charterholder.
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