Justina Lee

London

Reporter at Bloomberg News

I write about the nerdy stuff (ie quant) in markets for @business. And sometimes crypto. Opinions my own.

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Articles

India’s Slowing Growth Tests Consumers: Asia Earnings Week Ahead

3 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Harshita Swaminathan |Rachel Yeo |Reina Sasaki |Justina Lee

India dominates this week’s earnings calendar as a slowing economy weighs on the country’s banks and consumers alike. Over the weekend, top India private-sector lenders HDFC Bank Ltd. and ICICI Bank Ltd proved a safe bet after they both beat profit estimates amid tariff-led uncertainties, sending shares higher on Monday. Both shrugged off worries over asset quality as bad loan ratios shrank, although concerns over credit growth remain.
Sluggish Growth Threatens India’s Consumer and Banking Stocks

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Harshita Swaminathan |Rachel Yeo |Reina Sasaki |Justina Lee

(Bloomberg) -- India dominates this week’s earnings calendar as a slowing economy weighs on the country’s banks and consumers alike. Over the weekend, top India private-sector lenders HDFC Bank Ltd. and ICICI Bank Ltd proved a safe bet after they both beat profit estimates amid tariff-led uncertainties, sending shares higher on Monday. Both shrugged off worries over asset quality as bad loan ratios shrank, although concerns over credit growth remain.
India’s ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank Face Economic Slowdown, Rate Cuts

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Harshita Swaminathan |Rachel Yeo |Reina Sasaki |Justina Lee

India plans surprise U.S. trade move as Trump tariffs escalate with ChinaIndia reportedly plans to do away with duties on U.S. imports of ethane and LPG as part of its trade deal negotiations with the Trump …
TSMC, CATL to Offer Supply Chain Clues: Asia Earnings Week Ahead

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Justina Lee |Rachel Yeo |Reina Sasaki |Harshita Swaminathan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd.’s earnings outlook might offer clues on global supply chain disruptions as US President Donald Trump’s tariff moves roil global markets. TSMC’s long-term outlook remains closely watched after Trump pledged to unveil details on semiconductor tariff rates in the coming week, after a reprieve just days earlier.
Bilionários querem fechar o capital de empresas. A queda das ações acelera os planos

1 week ago | bloomberglinea.com.br | Filipe Pacheco |Ben Stupples |Manuel Baigorri |Justina Lee

Bloomberg — Para algumas das pessoas mais ricas do mundo, o caos nos mercados globais aumentou a urgência de fechar o capital de importantes empresas de seus portfólios. Enquanto os mercados de ações despencavam em todo o mundo na segunda-feira, a empresa de investimentos do bilionário sul-africano Natie Kirsh anunciou que se uniu à norte-americana Public Storage em uma oferta para fechar o capital da Abacus Storage King.
TSMC, CATL to Offer Supply Chain Clues as Tariff Uncertainty Reigns

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Justina Lee |Rachel Yeo |Reina Sasaki |Harshita Swaminathan

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd.’s earnings outlook might offer clues on global supply chain disruptions as US President Donald Trump’s tariff moves roil global markets. Sentiment for TSMC appears optimistic for now after Trump announced a 90-day pause on higher tariffs that hit dozens of trade partners, while first-quarter sales grew at their fastest pace since 2022.
Defensive Trades Misfire With Few Places to Hide on Wall Street

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Justina Lee

(Bloomberg) -- Just as bonds sell off while stocks get whipsawed, a slew of supposedly diversifying investment strategies are also failing to live up to their defensive billing. Trend followers — a breed of quantitative fund who tout “crisis alpha,” or outperformance at times of market stress — have extended their worst losses in two years. A strategy that goes long steady stocks and short volatile ones is down on the week.
Los más ricos del mundo se apresuran a privatizar sus empresas ante el caos de los mercados

2 weeks ago | bloomberglinea.com | Filipe Pacheco |Ben Stupples |Manuel Baigorri |Justina Lee

Bloomberg — Para algunas de las personas más ricas del mundo, el caos en los mercados mundiales ha añadido una mayor urgencia a la privatización de las principales empresas de su cartera. Mientras los mercados bursátiles se hundían en todo el mundo el lunes, la empresa de inversiones del multimillonario nacido en Sudáfrica Natie Kirsh anunció que se había asociado con Public Storage (PSA), que cotiza en EE.UU., en un acuerdo de privatización de Abacus Storage King.
Billionaires Seek to Take Companies Private as Market Melts (1)

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Filipe Pacheco |Ben Stupples |Manuel Baigorri |Justina Lee

For some of the world’s wealthiest people, the bedlam in global marketshas added greater urgency to take major portfolio companies private. As stock markets sank everywhere Monday, South Africa-born billionaire Natie Kirsh’s investment company announcedit had teamed up with US-listed Public Storageon a take-private deal for Abacus Storage King. Kirsh is the biggest shareholder in the Australian self-storage group, which the offer values at about A$1.9 billion ($1.1 billion).
Quants Winning Against Hedge-Fund Peers Get Slammed by Selloff

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Justina Lee

The tariff-induced shock unleashed on markets in recent days has been so ferocious that even some of Wall Street’s fastest and most tech-savvy investors have been unable to escape. Quantitative trading firms, who for much of this year had been a bright spot amid the institutional-investment crowd, are now showing cracks in the historic turmoil sweeping across assets.