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Morgans was pleased to host its 29th annual Queensland Conference in October Economics featuring 45 companies across a broad cross-section of the economy. It provided Why China had to negotiate with Trump 3 an opportunity to take the pulse of corporate Australia and get a sense of key opportunities and threats across the industries represented. We summarise the Equity Strategy key highlights and top picks from the conference this month. Also, we preview 2019 Morgans Queensland Conference 4-5 the upcoming bank reporting season and look at why China had to negotiate with Banks the US on trade. Outlook better than results will suggest 6 Recently published research Morgans Best Ideas 7 Australia Strategy (16/10) Morgans 2019 Queensland Conference – key picks and highlights Major Banks (28/10) Bank Reporting Season ADD PT A$11.15 – outlook better than results will suggest Orora (12/10) An offer too good to refuse ADD PT A$3.34 JB Hi-Fi (24/10) A solid performer HOLD PT A$35.34 Sydney Airport (22/10) Regulatory pressures ease ADD PT A$8.71
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2 Investment Watch November 2019 Economics – why China had to negotiate with Trump
The way the Communist Party of China sees the Rapidly escalating food prices has the potential to world is in terms of historical progress outlined first increase political instability. The solution is to dramatically The tentative in Marx and second in Lenin (see our recent article accelerate the re-population of the swine herd, which agreement “How the US China trade war caused the bond requires a lot of grain. It just so happens that the number bubble” http://bit.ly/China-US-Bonds one grain exporter of soybeans and feed grains in the between world is the US. And as a result of that, stage one of the Right now, they see themselves living through the period China and potential agreement between China and Trump includes described by Lenin in his Imperialism: the importation of US$40-50bn of feed grains. Historically The Last Stage of Capitalism. Where that takes you in Donald Trump the largest ever year of China buying US feed grains was terms of their bargaining position is that they will only emphasises 2013, in which they bought US$29bn. They are proposing make decisions regarding international negotiation to buy almost twice as much this time around. not because they are attempting to establish trust or there are two be generous to anybody but because they have to for The second thing China has proposed to do, is to open up short term structural reasons. the capital market to US financial companies. The reason they’re forced to do that can be seen in the outlook for structural The tentative agreement between China and Donald both the budget balance and the current account balance Trump emphasises there are two short term structural problems according to the IMF outlook database. What it shows is a problems within the economy the leadership is attempting change in the structure of Chinese growth. within the to address. One of those is in the food markets and the problem with food inflation, and the other is in the capital China has moved from being a primarily industrial country economy the market; the increasing problem that China will have in to primarily a service economy. The problem with that is leadership is financing its current account. as services rise and manufacturing falls as a proportion of China’s GDP, it is still manufacturing that generates most attempting to Food is the most internally politically sensitive. Variation in of the export income. That means the increase in growth food prices has historically had enormous impact on the address. in services is generating increasing demand for imports political stability of China. Let’s go back some decades but their ability to produce exports to counterbalance that to the events that unfolded in Tiananmen Square in is declining. The result is that the current account surplus 1988. We find that those events were driven by a rapid has almost disappeared. food price acceleration, which in turn generated political instability. What we’ve got in China at the moment is the A worse problem is the lack of capital inflow into China. For more economics beginning of a possible circumstance like that forming Previously the Chinese economy was developing by the coverage subscribe to from escalating pork prices. migration of foreign firms and in particular US firms into the Morgans Podcasts China. And that was because US firms could take their The enormous herd of swine has been affected by African capital, both intellectual and financial, and move to China swine fever which meant s a significant amount of the and set up manufacturing concerns to sell their products herd had to be destroyed. Thus, the domestic production back to the US. But this negotiation Trump has entered of pork has fallen. This causes problems with prices and into has stopped that process dead. consumer price inflation. So, the bottom line is that the Chinese are only offering Pork prices domestically in China are up by 75%. This these concessions because they have to. has introduced an acceleration in food prices of 45%. The result of this acceleration is to bring overall inflation to 3%. This is towards the upper end of the inflation range this century. Moreover, core inflation is only 1.5%, which shows there is not an industrial problem.
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