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The bubble has burst for tech firms built on hype but solid businesses will keep growingBig tech is facing a moment of reckoning.Sky high valuations that seemed limitless have normalised and the premium that public tech stocks once held over the rest of the market have been largely erased. We’ve seen a spooked market fuel talk of a tech stock unwinding, but the reality is that many of the companies most impacted were likely overvalued. The recent corrections will shake out the companies that have relied on hype and FOMO (also known as fear of missing out) rather than strong fundamentals and robust business models.But we can and should still be excited about London’s technology companies. Even in the midst of falling tech valuations, there are still pockets of huge opportunity. Almost five billion people – 63 per cent of the world’s population – have access to the internet, with 192 million additional users joining them each year. On average, these internet users spend almost 7 hours each day online, consuming huge amounts of data. A pocket of opportunity lies in the next generation of technology businesses in the capital that are building the future of digital applications and tech infrastructure. It is the companies in these tech sub-sectors, not the ones you see in the headlines, which are the most resilient to market shocks in the short term and that have the potential for long-term growth and value creation. Here’s an example you may not have heard of: “serverless” technology. Whether you’re watching the Euros on your iPhone or digging into your emails, the likelihood is that the data is being served to you through cloud infrastructure.Serverless technology enables a company to outsource both infrastructure and its code execution to a cloud provider, such as Amazon, IBM, or Microsoft. It saves time and resources so developers can focus on new products and services. The serverless technology market is currently worth $7.29bn and is expected to reach $36.84bn by 2028. There is also an entire tech ecosystem being built around it, helping developers to resolve incidents and performance bottlenecks quickly.Regardless of market conditions, you still need brave, innovative, and fast-moving companies to challenge the status quo and take advantage of new trends. London is home to many of these companies. Within our own portfolio, we’ve seen the likes of Ably – who are building real-time notification infrastructure for the internet – deliver billions of messages to more than fifty million people every day for companies including HubSpot, Verizon and Bloomberg. APEXX Global’s payment systems aggregator helps online merchants – including Asos and Ryanair – to process transactions faster and easier.These companies hold potential for high payoffs. But naturally, resource and development costs for these nascent businesses can be high and there can be more risk. This is where early-stage venture capital in particular presents an opportunity to identify homegrown entrepreneurs developing new technologies or taking advantage of market shocks.The cyclical nature of markets means that there will always be times of buoyancy and times when growth slows. But the one sure thing is the ever-increasing pace of technological change. By understanding and focusing on the trends that drive it, businesses can present solutions that underpin progress.The most exciting technology is not always the loudest, in fact it rarely is. The London startups quietly and patiently building strong businesses are often the most transformative.
US junk bond market in powerful rebound on easing inflation worriesAmount of debt trading at distressed levels tumbles at unprecedented paceOne of the riskiest corners of global financial markets has made an unprecedented recovery in the past month, with prices of junk bonds rebounding as investors bet that the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation will avoid triggering a deep recession.The amount of US bonds trading at levels signalling severe investor concern has dropped rapidly over the past five weeks, in a reflection of increased optimism from investors about the state of the US economy.Just 6.2 per cent of high-yield bonds are now trading at distressed levels, compared to 11.6 per cent on July 5, according to analysis by Marty Fridson, chief investment officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors.Investors had backed away from US high-yield corporate debt earlier this year, fearing that aggressive interest rate rises by the Fed would force the world’s largest economy into a protracted slowdown, hitting the country’s weakest companies hardest.But signs that the pace of price growth may be steadying — with inflation data last week coming in lower than forecast — have contributed to a recovery in the price of those assets.“Over a strikingly short interval, high-yield investors [have come] around to believing inflation is sufficiently under control that the Fed [will] not have to hike interest rates dramatically enough to trigger a deep recession,” said Fridson. “Time will tell whether they were correct in changing their views on that matter.”A lack of demand before the rebound in junk bond prices had pushed up the premium investors received for holding high-yield bonds relative to government benchmarks, also known as the spread. The amount of bonds trading with a spread of 10 percentage points or above, a sign that they are distressed, more than doubled from January to May.“Credit, like equities, is a simple animal,” said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Global Research. “As interest rates were going up and corporate earnings were going down, the first six months of this year was an environment where spreads widened dramatically.”The rocky conditions prompted some companies to postpone planned borrowings, as central banks withdrew their support for debt markets and inflation damped demand.But several data releases have suggested that inflation has stabilised in the US economy, meaning expectations that the Fed will bring in a third consecutive 0.75 percentage point rate rise in September have eased.A renewed sense of optimism about the economic outlook has sent traders back into debt markets. Money has been pumped into investment grade, high yield and emerging market debt funds in recent weeks, after sustained outflows since January, according to flows tracked by EPFR.With banks delaying planned junk bond sales until after the summer holiday in the US, investors keen to increase their holdings have instead had to gobble up existing debt. Yields on junk-rated US corporate bonds have fallen from an average of 8.94 per cent at the end of June, to 7.45 per cent on Friday.That fall has been driven largely by a drop in the premium investors demand to lend to lower-rated companies compared to the borrowing costs secured by the US government, rather than by a broader decline in yields. The spread has tightened from 5.99 percentage points on July 5 to 4.25 percentage points on Friday.Most striking is the pace of this “extraordinary” turnround, said Fridson. It has previously taken at least four months for the spread on the Ice Data Services high yield index to move from 6 percentage points to the current level of 4. The recent drop has taken just over a month, Fridson’s data show.“Without a sense of inevitability of a near-term recession, investors are predisposed to take a bullish view of any good news,” he said, although some traders remain reluctant.Gabriele Foà, a portfolio manager at Algebris Investments, said that conditions for the corporate bond market were likely to improve further. “This is the tip of the iceberg of what credit can do . . . the levels were crazy and priced for a very big storm. Now they’re not priced for a very big storm but they’re still quite cheap.”But Adam Abbas, the co-head of fixed income at Harris Associates, cautioned that when debt issuance accelerates later this year, pressure could once again build on junk bonds just as investors are confronted with weakening economic data.“There needs to be a fair degree of scepticism built into credit analysis,” he said. “A dovish-pivot from [Fed chair Jay] Powell, one good employment report and [softer than expected rise in consumer prices], those are certainly good. But the verdict is still out for us.”Further inflation and jobs data will be published before the Fed’s rate decision next month. Signs that inflation is creeping up again or a larger than expected interest rate rise could push more bonds back into distressed territory.The longer-term outlook means that analysts are wary of predicting a new bull market for credit. “If you believe corporate earnings are going up and interest rates are going to come down — winner, winner chicken dinner. If, like myself, you think it’s not going to be easy as that, the expected returns don’t look as attractive,” said Hartnett.
El alza de los alquileres devora ya el 35% del sueldo medio en ocho autonomíasEl alquiler medio anualizado supera el 35% de la renta media en Catalunya, Andalucía, Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla La-Mancha, Comunidad Valenciana y MadridEl alquiler medio en España ha aumentado en los últimos años de forma exponencial y no solo en las grandes ciudades. De forma generalizada, la renta que debe pagar un inquilino todos los meses ha aumentado cerca de un 60% entre 2015 y 2022, según datos recopilados por la plataforma de datos inmobiliarios de Brainsre.Este rápido aumento, no correlacionado con los sueldos de los españoles, ha disparado el porcentaje de renta que se destina a pagar el alquiler. En Baleares, una región muy influida por el turismo, la renta neta media por hogar es de 29.368 euros, según el INE; mientras el alquiler medio supone 23.400 euros al año. Lo mismo ocurre en Catalunya, donde a pesar de la intervención del mercado, la renta media es de 34.982 euros y el alquiler medio anual de 16.644 euros (el 47,6% de la renta media). En la capital madrileña se repite el fenómeno, con un alquiler medio de 16.476 euros y unos ingresos de 37.687 euros.El umbral de alquiler respecto a renta que los expertos consideran como 'sano' se ubica en el 30%-35%, es decir, destinar ese porcentaje de los ingresos del hogar al pago de la vivienda, bien en alquiler o en propiedad. Este porcentaje se supera en ocho autonomías además de Madrid, Catalunya y Baleares: Andalucía, situado en un 51,23%; Canarias, en un 38,69%; Cantabria, en un 36,89%; Comunidad Valenciana, en un 43,26%; y País Vasco, ubicado en el 35,2%. Las zonas donde menos porcentaje del sueldo se destina al arrendamiento, por debajo del 30%, son Ceuta, Melilla, Aragón, Asturias, Castilla y León, Castilla La-Mancha, Extremadura, Navarra y La Rioja.Según el informe The Housing Property Telescope de la consultora EY, los fondos de inversión y grandes tenedores de viviendas en España son los que más barato alquilan sus viviendas, entre un 7% y un 20% por debajo del precio de mercado de sus zonas de influencia.La gestora española Azora, criticada por comprar viviendas sociales a la Comunidad de Madrid durante la anterior crisis financiera, alquila de media con un descuento del 30% respecto al mercado. Resydenza, la plataforma de una de las 50 mayores fortunas de España, pone sus viviendas un 21% por debajo que sus comparables o Realia, propiedad del multimillonario mexicano Carlos Slim, lo hace con un 10% de descuento. Todas estas viviendas están en zonas de gran escasez como Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga y Valencia.El socio responsable de Real Estate en el área de Strategy & Transactions de EY, Javier García-Mateo, asegura que “los inversores institucionales son los que están favoreciendo el acceso a la vivienda de las clases más bajas”.A pesar de la importancia de los grandes tenedores, su papel es insignificante en el mercado del alquiler español. El 95% total del parque de viviendas en este mercado está en menos de particulares, que elevan sus rentas para obtener mayores beneficios. Por el momento, la demanda soporta estas alzas en los precios, sostenido en una escasez de la oferta.(...)
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/20220815/alza-alquileres-devora-35-sueldo-14284810Según el informe The Housing Property Telescope de la consultora EY, los fondos de inversión y grandes tenedores de viviendas en España son los que más barato alquilan sus viviendas, entre un 7% y un 20% por debajo del precio de mercado de sus zonas de influencia.La gestora española Azora, criticada por comprar viviendas sociales a la Comunidad de Madrid durante la anterior crisis financiera, alquila de media con un descuento del 30% respecto al mercado. Resydenza, la plataforma de una de las 50 mayores fortunas de España, pone sus viviendas un 21% por debajo que sus comparables o Realia, propiedad del multimillonario mexicano Carlos Slim, lo hace con un 10% de descuento. Todas estas viviendas están en zonas de gran escasez como Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga y Valencia.El socio responsable de Real Estate en el área de Strategy & Transactions de EY, Javier García-Mateo, asegura que “los inversores institucionales son los que están favoreciendo el acceso a la vivienda de las clases más bajas”.A pesar de la importancia de los grandes tenedores, su papel es insignificante en el mercado del alquiler español. El 95% total del parque de viviendas en este mercado está en menos de particulares, que elevan sus rentas para obtener mayores beneficios. Por el momento, la demanda soporta estas alzas en los precios, sostenido en una escasez de la oferta.(...)
House prices are about to dip – and London and the South East will suffer mostThe property market is heading for disaster as mortgage rates rise and the cost of living crisis bitesHouse price falls are imminent as soaring mortgage rates and spiralling living costs finally catch up with the housing market, experts have warned.The crunch point will hit at the end of this year and bring a year-long downturn in 2023, with prices falling by 4pc, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, an analytics firm. But the hit could be far worse if the looming recession brings soaring unemployment, while ever-increasing inflation pushes the Bank of England to continue raising interest rates.Andrew Wishart, of Capital Economics, a research firm, said: “The historical record shows that increases in interest rates of the scale that we are seeing now are always a precursor of house price falls.”Capital Economics has forecast a two-year property market downturn, with price falls of between 5pc and 10pc by the end of 2024.Whatever happens, the blow will be unequal – with certain areas and parts of the market hit far worse than others. Transactions are going to tankEstate agents are feeling pessimistic about the state of the market. In July, their expectations of property sales over the next 12 months reached the lowest level since March 2020, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a trade body. That was when the housing market was shut down for the first time in history. Excluding that lockdown low, the July forecast was the worst on record in the Rics dataset, which goes back to 2012.This followed three consecutive months of plunging buyer inquiries. Agents expect house prices will flatline over the next three months.As mortgage rates continue to rise, the market will slow. Richard Donnell, of property website Zoopla, said: “The biggest casualty will be turnover.” He has forecast that in 2023 there will be around 1.1 million transactions, which is 200,000 fewer than this year.“Transactions will fall, and then I think it will take six months for sellers to realise and for asking prices to come down,” said Mr Donnell. “I just think everything will flatline. Next year I think we will see house price growth at 0pc, or maybe falls of 1pc or 2pc.” In some areas, the drops could be closer to 5pc, he added. (...)
Cita de: Asdrúbal el Bello en Agosto 15, 2022, 20:33:13 pmSobre el problema de la energía, que es capital en varios órdenes exponenciales respecto a otros problemas como la alimentación o el equilibrio monetario y financiero, estoy cada vez más perplejo y desasosegado.El progreso del mundo contemporáneo se basa esencialmente en el uso de las energías fósiles. Quien niegue eso no se entera. Se vio con el carbón, pero con petróleo y gas natural hemos alcanzado niveles de obviedad. La nuestra sociedad, la vida tal y como la conocemos, depende de eso. Hoy se van a mover en el planeta centenares de millones de personas a distancias y velocidades sencillamente sobrenaturales, y se van a producir recursos primarios y secundarios a una escala incomprensible gracias a ello. Sin petróleo y sin gas, hoy por hoy, estamos muertos, a niveles de hambruna africana en Sudán o Níger en la gran sequía de los 80, pero a niveles planetarios.Pero el problema que yo me planteo es distinto. ¿Por qué las élites políticas, financieras y empresariales del planeta están empeñados en destruir la prosperidad de las sociedades industriales imaginando formas y razones de restringir el uso de fósiles? Porque de lo que se trata es de eso. Elementos como el mercado de derechos de CO2, o los impuestos a la gasolina y electricidad, o la moratoria de nuclear y carbón, o las protestas por el "vaciamiento de embalses", obedecen sólo a intentos conscientes de 'descarbonizar y desfuelizar' nuestra sociedad. ¿Por qué? Sólo veo dos opciones:1. Nuestras élites políticas, empresariales y financieras han sido enloquecidas por unos gurús enloquecidos que defienden la vuelta al mundo preindustrial. No podemos descartarlo del todo. Debemos tener claro que en el mundo preindustrial las diferencias de riqueza y de nivel de vida eran salvajemente mayores que ahora, y los ricos seguirán teniendo acceso a tecnología y energía de escala. Hay distopías de sobra sobre ese mundo.2. Saben algo que no quieren que la gente sepa.No veo más opciones. Las mayores inteligencias del planeta nos empujan a un mundo que sabemos perfectamente que será más pobre, más siniestro y más violento que el que ya tenemos. ¿Por qué?La respuesta correcta es la 2 ( saben algo que no quieren que la gente sepa). ¿Y qué es eso?, pues el peak-oil y lo que conlleva: guerra por los hidrocarburos que quedan y racionalización en el uso de los mismos priorizando lo productivo.
Sobre el problema de la energía, que es capital en varios órdenes exponenciales respecto a otros problemas como la alimentación o el equilibrio monetario y financiero, estoy cada vez más perplejo y desasosegado.El progreso del mundo contemporáneo se basa esencialmente en el uso de las energías fósiles. Quien niegue eso no se entera. Se vio con el carbón, pero con petróleo y gas natural hemos alcanzado niveles de obviedad. La nuestra sociedad, la vida tal y como la conocemos, depende de eso. Hoy se van a mover en el planeta centenares de millones de personas a distancias y velocidades sencillamente sobrenaturales, y se van a producir recursos primarios y secundarios a una escala incomprensible gracias a ello. Sin petróleo y sin gas, hoy por hoy, estamos muertos, a niveles de hambruna africana en Sudán o Níger en la gran sequía de los 80, pero a niveles planetarios.Pero el problema que yo me planteo es distinto. ¿Por qué las élites políticas, financieras y empresariales del planeta están empeñados en destruir la prosperidad de las sociedades industriales imaginando formas y razones de restringir el uso de fósiles? Porque de lo que se trata es de eso. Elementos como el mercado de derechos de CO2, o los impuestos a la gasolina y electricidad, o la moratoria de nuclear y carbón, o las protestas por el "vaciamiento de embalses", obedecen sólo a intentos conscientes de 'descarbonizar y desfuelizar' nuestra sociedad. ¿Por qué? Sólo veo dos opciones:1. Nuestras élites políticas, empresariales y financieras han sido enloquecidas por unos gurús enloquecidos que defienden la vuelta al mundo preindustrial. No podemos descartarlo del todo. Debemos tener claro que en el mundo preindustrial las diferencias de riqueza y de nivel de vida eran salvajemente mayores que ahora, y los ricos seguirán teniendo acceso a tecnología y energía de escala. Hay distopías de sobra sobre ese mundo.2. Saben algo que no quieren que la gente sepa.No veo más opciones. Las mayores inteligencias del planeta nos empujan a un mundo que sabemos perfectamente que será más pobre, más siniestro y más violento que el que ya tenemos. ¿Por qué?
[...] Comienza la fase de traspaso de himbersiones particulares a socimis.Ese 95% (¿de himbersiones en alquiler?) se va a convertir en breve en menos del 50%:[...]Va a ser una razzia; como apoderarse del botín expuesto por las gacelas himbersoras,Y muy räpido; mucho mäs de lo que pensamos.
Furious UK to launch dispute proceedings against EU this week for breaking Brexit trade dealThe British government is planning to launch formal dispute proceedings against the European Union as soon as this week.The UK thinks Brussels is breaking their agreed post-Brexit trade agreement by excluding Britain from three international science projects, according to Bloomberg News.Britain is furious that the EU refuses to grant the UK access to its Horizon Europe research fund, its nuclear watchdog Euratom as well as the bloc’s earth observation project called Copernicus.UK-based scientists are no longer able to access the EU’s £80bn science programs, much to the dismay of Britain’s academic community.Failed talksAs talks have failed to find a solution, ‘formal consultations’ will reportedly be triggered before the end of this week, a process that was created under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation agreement in the case disputes would arise.The expectation is that the proceedings “will likely inflame tensions after the EU ramped up its own legal action against the UK in a separate dispute,” Bloomberg News wrote.The legal moves are related to Boris Johnson’s decision to ignore parts of the Brexit deal related to the trade arrangements in Northern Ireland.
$180... again.
Cita de: sudden and sharp en Agosto 16, 2022, 18:00:22 pm$180... again. Y no se olvide de BBBYYa se lo dije
UK to receive shipment of Australian gas next weekThe UK is expected to take delivery of a shipment of gas all the way from Australia next week, as the pressure on European energy supplies grows.The liquid natural gas (LNG) is due to arrive on 22 August, according to commodities analysts Kpler.Australia doesn't usually sell gas this far afield, but European countries have been seeking alternatives to Russian gas following the invasion of Ukraine.The UK stopped importing gas from Russia in April.While the UK bought only a small fraction of its gas from Russia before the conflict began, the country is connected to the European gas network. Continental Europe is much more reliant on Russian gas, and deliveries via the Nordstream pipeline have already been curtailed.Moscow has been accused of using gas as a political weapon and there are fears it could cut supplies to European countries altogether, if there is no resolution to the crisis.Energy analyst David Cox said the Australian shipment was a sign of how "desperate" European countries were to secure alternative sources of gas before winter."European nations are desperately trying to store up before the winter comes," he told the BBC."This shipment isn't necessarily for the UK, because we don't have the storage to keep it anyway. But I imagine most of it will be exported to Europe where they're racing to increase their supplies."This is the first time Australia has shipped a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to Europe in at least six years, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news.(...)
China: Here are China’s key economic indicators.