Shanghai, China’s jewel city, has largely escaped the SARS2 pandemic. Until now. Chinese travelers arriving in Italy and Taiwan are testing positive for Covid in gigantic numbers. The U. S. now requires all passengers arriving from China to be tested.
According to some estimates, at least a portion of Shanghai’s citizens have tested positive for Covid, although deaths remain relatively low. After years of hiding from Covid, Shanghai is a testament to the fact that you can run away, but you can’t hide from the dice. GMO virus SARS2. No matter how long it’s masked or how many shots you’ve received. SARS2 has nothing to do with SARS1 or its Middle Eastern cousin, MERS.
But the market is doing well.
The Shanghai Composite Index of the 50 largest indexed corporations closed up 0. 33% on Wednesday. The STAR-50, all technology corporations most commonly news, fell 0. 7%. Just one day in Shanghai. Investors are fed up with Covid.
If the situation worsens, however, look for China to begin hoarding medication destined for export markets. They will also hoard personal protection equipment, namely masks, which are making a comeback in some schools across the country, with public school districts in Los Angeles, Boston and New York City all covering up temporarily for the first days back to school this month.
It is unclear whether this hoarding creates further bottlenecks in the chain of origin; however, unless the scenario in Shanghai worsens, it is unlikely to lead to the same crises in the chain of origin that we experienced in 2020-2021.
According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control, local Covid tests have shown a prevalence of the Omicron BA. 5. 2 and BF. 7 variants, which are easy to spread but less deadly. They accounted for 97. 5% of all local infections according to genomic sequencing. Some other known sublineages of Omicron were also detected, albeit in low percentages, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO said on Wednesday that no new variants had been reported in the Shanghai outbreak.
It’s not the winter of 2020. Markets can at least rejoice in this (even if the S
Some reports recommend that a fitness kit including masks, Covid tests, aspirin and classical Chinese medicine has been distributed to people in nearby cities.
Meanwhile, Europe said it would not follow in the Italian government’s footsteps in requiring mandatory Covid tests for Chinese arrivals. This will largely mute Italy’s efforts to contain yet another Covid wave this winter, totally contrary to what some in the Italian government did in the winter of 2020. In at least one province, “Hug an Asian Day” led to massive Covid infections of the first alpha variant, showing the world its first crowded hospitals in the West, with a 14% death rate recorded in Italy in early March 2020.
The WHO chief, this time, said he understood the policies for screening Chinese travelers before allowing them to enter the country. Tedros Ghebreyesus has opposed travel restrictions, including in 2020.
There is some hope that if Shanghai and the surrounding economic and monetary centers are affected by Covid, Xi Jinping will reinstate his Zero Covid policy. On the other hand, some are willing to bet that the Chinese Communist Party will simply drop cash by helicopter. Both of these characteristics are credible bets, but the stimulus coming from China fits what Wall Street expects from Beijing.
Chinese investors would do well not to get caught up in social media news showing crowded hospitals. This is a common scene in many countries around the world when a population is affected by a contagion: it may simply be SARS2. influenza or an herbal disaster. China has also mastered the art of faking such photographs to scare Western governments into doing the same, or face the same fate. Remember that in 2020, only in China other people fainted due to Covid.
China investors will still have to deal with the growing geopolitical risks there, but the Shanghai outbreak should be considered an extension of the Zero Covid headwind. China will get through this. The market is already catching up to the U.S. after a bad few years due to the pandemic and trade war.
China’s A-shares have rallied over the past three months and are gaining ground against the United States after a 60 basis point gap between the two over the past 12 months. SPY was down 20%. ASHR was down 26% year-over-year.
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I am a UK-based energy analyst and business news editor/writer with over 20 years of experience in the financial and trade press. I have worked on all major media platforms – print, newswire, web and broadcast. Over the years, I have provided wide-ranging energy, oil & gas and cleantech commentary, including pricing, supply scenarios, business models, technology, infrastructure and corporate financials. I am a regular and lively commentator on ‘crude’ matters and energy economics via international broadcasters including CNBC, BBC, ITN, Al Jazeera, CGTN, TRT World and several other networks, my own market blog, and various publications including, and especially, Forbes.
The author is an oil & gas analyst and market commentator. Follow him on Twitter @The_Oilholic
I am a UK-based energy analyst and business news editor/writer with over 20 years of experience in the financial and trade press. I have worked on all major media platforms – print, newswire, web and broadcast. Over the years, I have provided wide-ranging energy, oil & gas and cleantech commentary, including pricing, supply scenarios, business models, technology, infrastructure and corporate financials. I am a regular and lively commentator on ‘crude’ matters and energy economics via international broadcasters including CNBC, BBC, ITN, Al Jazeera, CGTN, TRT World and several other networks, my own market blog, and various publications including, and especially, Forbes.
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