Apple stock plunged nearly 10% on Thursday after the company cut its
revenue forecast due to slowing iPhone sales in China. Apple’s woes
dragged U.S. stock indices lower by more than 2% as fears of a more
extensive China-driven slowdown spread.
For years, no matter what was
happening elsewhere, global companies bet billions upon billions of
dollars that China’s consumers would keep spending money.
長年、他国で何が起きようとも多国籍企業は中国消費は巨額を維持することに賭けてきた。
Now, just when the world economy could use their financial firepower, they are no longer so quick to open their wallets.
今や、世界経済が金融弾薬を用いてももはや彼らの財布を緩めることはできない。
The latest sign of a slowdown in spending in China came Wednesday, when Apple unexpectedly slashed its financial forecast, citing disappointing iPhones sales in the country. The weakness followed reams of other data — declining car sales, lagging retail spending, a slumping property market, a tougher job market — that suggest Chinese consumers may be losing their once unshakable confidence.
That
could have a big impact on a world looking for engines of growth, on
companies that counted on China’s continuing expansion and on global
investors who have long viewed China as a steady source of profits.
“It’s not going to be
just Apple,” CEA chairman Kevin Hassett said in an interview on CNN.
“There are a heck of a lot of U.S. companies that have sales in China
that are going to be watching their earnings being downgraded next year
until we get a deal with China.”
「これはアップルだけに起きていることではない」とCEA議長 Kevin HassettはCNNのインタビューに答えた。「中国で大きな売上をしめている米国企業は多い、中国との交渉終結までこれら企業の収益は要注意だ。」
Hassett argued that a softer
economy in China is cutting into U.S. companies’ sales there and that
the economic pain gives Trump leverage in ongoing trade negotiations.
“That puts a lot of pressure on China to make a deal,” he said.
I agree with Kevin Hassett that many more American companies are
going to take a hit from China’s slowdown and the ongoing trade war, but
the risks posed by the ultimate bursting of China’s massive credit
bubble are far greater, yet virtually nobody is discussing it.
As the chart of China’s total debt as a percent of GDP shows, China has
been gorging on debt for the past decade. This debt binge has been
amplifying China’s economic growth and allowing its consumers to buy
Western consumer goods like Apple iPhones.
The scary truth is that Apple and other American companies
have been benefiting from China’s credit bubble, but most have no clue
that this bubble is going to burst and cause a severe recession
or depression in China, causing American exports to China to plunge.
When is society going to learn that debt binges create temporary
economic booms, but always end in terrible busts?
恐ろしい真実は、アップルやその他米国企業は中国の与信バブルの恩恵を受けていたことだ、しかしだれもこのバブルがいまはじけ、深刻な景気後退もしくは恐慌が中国に来ることを見通していない、こうなると米国から中国への輸出は急落する。債務のどんちゃん騒ぎが一時的な経済ブームを生み出すが、常にそれはひどい炸裂で終わることを社会全体がいつ気づくだろうか? Please follow me on LinkedIn and Twitter to keep up with my updates. Please click here to sign up for our free weekly newsletter to learn how to navigate the investment world in these risky times.
Amazonで買物をしてContrarianJを応援しよう 記事を紹介しようと訳を入れている間にFOMCが過ぎてしまいタイミングを逸してしまいました、前半は読み飛ばしてください。後半部分に関して、日本では一般会計と特別会計が別れていて政府財政がわかりにくいですが、米国は分離されておらず年金会計がより鮮明になります。$70Tって邦貨でいうと約7000兆円ですからね。 Whistling Past The $70 Trillion Debt Graveyard 07-26-19 Written by Lance Roberts | Jul, 27, 2019 Last week, we discussed the setup for a near-term mean reversion because of the massive extension above the long-term mean. To wit: 先週には、私どもは短期的な平均回帰のし掛けが出来上がっていることを議論した、というのも現在長期的な平均から極端に乖離しているからだ。見てみよう: “There is also just the simple issue that markets are very extended above their long-term trends, as shown in the chart below. A geopolitical event, a shift in expectations, or an acceleration in economic weakness in the U.S. could spark a mean-reverting event which would be quite the norm of what we have seen in recent years.” 「とてもかんたんなことだが、市場は長期的なトレンドからあまりに極端に上方乖離している、それは下のチャートを見れば明らかだ。地政学的出来事、期待値の変化、もしくは米国経済の弱さが加速するなら、平均回帰を引き起こすだろう、それは過去数年でみた典型的な相場の動きだ。」 This analysis is ...
Productivity: What It Is & Why It Matters Written by Michael Lebowitz | Jan, 16, 2019 The Kansas City Federal Reserve posted the Twitter comment and graph below highlighting a very important economic theme. Although productivity is a basic building block of economic analysis, it is one that few economists and even fewer investors seem to appreciate. Kansas 市FEDがツイッターにコメントを投稿した、そのグラフを下に示す、とても重要な経済テーマだ。経済分析においては生産性というのはとても重要な要素だが、ほとんどのエコノミストがこの件に言及しない、投資家は更にこのことを忘れ去っている。 The Kansas City Fed’s tweet is 100% correct in that wages are stagnating in large part due to low productivity growth. As the second chart shows, it is not only wages. The post financial-crisis economic expansion, despite being within months of a record for duration, is by far the weakest since WWII. Kansas City FEDのツイートは100%正しい、給与が停滞している原因の主要因は生産性成長が低いからだ。二番目のチャートを見ても判るように、成長鈍化は給与だけではない。あの金融危機後の経済拡大は、第二次世界大戦後で記録的長期の拡大期間だが、とても弱い拡大だ。 Productivity growth over the last 350+ years is ...
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この記事は投資人生を通じて有効です。 The Beginning is the End is the Beginning: A Look at Recessions Market Commentary Stocks By Liz Ann Sonders February 25, 2019 Key Points Recessions are not back-to-back negative GDP quarters; they’re instead defined using four key coincident economic indicators. 景気後退とはマイナスGDP成長四半期が連続することではない;そうではなく4つの重要経済指標で定義される。 Bear markets often overlap with recessions (and typically lead them), but not always. ベア相場は景気後退と重なることが多い(典型的には先行する)、しかし必ずそうというわけでもない。 It’s important to distinguish between leading and lagging economic indicators and to focus at least as much on trend as level. 大切なことは先行指標と遅行指標を見極めること、そしてすくなくともそのトレンドに注意せよ。 Recession chatter is abundant lately. It’s increasingly the focus of Q&A sessions at investor events at which I’ve been speaking. I also received a series of questions last week about recessions fro...