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9 Nov 2022

Ukraine’s Zelensky Sets Conditions for ‘Genuine’ Peace Talks With Russia - WSJ

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was open to “genuine peace talks” with Russia, following pressure from Western backers to signal readiness for negotiations amid concerns about the rising costs of the eight-month war.

9 Nov 2022

China Developers Soar as State Help Fuels Bets on Market Bottom

Source: - Bloomberg

9 Nov 2022

China Producer Prices in Deflation for First Time Since 2020

Source: Bloomberg

9 Nov 2022

ECB also lags behind other Central Banks in terms of QT

ECB balance sheet remains almost unchanged last week. Total assets stand at €8,761.7bn, equal to 80.9% of Eurozone GDP vs Fed's 33.8% and BoJ's 127%.

9 Nov 2022

Tesla stocks keep falling due to Twittermess

Tesla is now worth <$600bn Source: Bloomberg

9 Nov 2022

FTX was the third-largest crypto exchange in spot volume.

How other exchanges can survive and compete against Binance? Source: Ki Yong Lu

8 Nov 2022

Private stress becomes public

5 of 6 private market fund categories (tracked by ⁦@Burgiss⁩) registered negative net commitments in 3Q22 (investors had to put more money in than came back as returns); buyout funds w/ largest gap at -$7.7B, most since 2Q20. Source: Bloomberg, Liz Ann Sonders

8 Nov 2022

ETF flows: Investors have shifted back towards risk

45%% of ETF inflows concentrated in equity funds over past month; only 7% of flows have been into U.S. government bond funds. Arbor Research

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