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- 中国重新审视防疫政策；“双循环”的驱动双轮力有不逮。中国调适防疫政策之际，正值出口增速29个月以来首现负增长、社零增速由正转负的关口，二项数据均剑指国内外需求的同步消退。然而，在岸市场却从2020年3月时疫情爆发之初的低点附近展开反弹，锐不可当。
中国出口周期为七年一轮的中周期，并已于2021年2月见顶。这意味着经常账户余额相对于GDP的累积速度日趋放缓。出口周期创造宏观流动性，也因此与中国股市周期紧密相连。据此，出口中周期见顶与市场共识的“新的长期牛市”的逻辑相悖。
- 经济短周期接近拐点，但房地产复苏非一日之功。以房地产投资周期衡量的经济短周期正接近其转折点。但处于拐点的短周期仍需一剂催化因素的助力在未来一年里以开启新一轮周期。
当下的境况与2014年初有诸多相似之处。譬如，这两个时期都见证了美联储大刀阔斧收紧货币政策和中国房地产市场的趔趄前行，而决策层最终伸出援手。这两个时期的市场走势亦重规叠矩。譬如，上证在2014年的前几个月间进退维谷。
与此同时，美国经济短周期正从峰值回落，但尚未能恰如其分地反映美国经济所面临的衰退风险。由于中美经济东鸣西应，交错相依，美国的宏观波动性将通过汇率、大宗、股票和债券外溢至中国乃至全球市场。
- 上证曲折交易于约3-3,500点，恒指约16-23,000点。渐进倾向于周期性、成长型板块相对于防御性、价值型板块。我们的基准情景是，中国将一波三折、循序渐进地重启，中国房地产行业将在政策支持下缓慢复苏，而美国将在2023年步入衰退。如这三项不确定因素中任何一项好于我们的基准情景，譬如重启加速、房地产市场迅速恢复抑或美国经济避免了衰退，都将有力提振基准情景下的投资收益。
中国的利润率周期正再度扩张，这预示着周期性和成长型板块相对于防御性和价值型板块的表现前景向好。直观地说，随着中国重启和房地产恢复元气，对周期性板块的需求理应有所改善，增长也将受益。
诚然，风险因素在于中国继续延缓重启，房地产持续低迷，而美国如期陷入衰退。这三重冲击同时发生将招致近似于我们在2022年所经历的一类风险情景。本文无须赘述。即便如此，今年的史诗级波动表明，我们应该已经见证了上证以及恒指在本轮周期的最低位之一。
任尔东西南北风。无论我们在2022年遭遇了多少暗流险滩，眼下是时候重振旗鼓，举步向前了。
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- China finetuning “COVID-Zero”; flames of “Dual Circulation” turning blue. The Chinese authority is finetuning “COVID-0”, at a juncture when negative exports growth for the first time in 29 months and negative retail growth are suggesting receding demand both home and abroad. Yet onshore market rebounded strongly – from a similar level last seen at the onset of COVID in Mar 2020.
China’s export cycle, an intermediate economic cycle running every seven years, has peaked in Feb 2021, and has translated to slowing accumulation of current account surplus compared with GDP. The export cycle correlates closely with China’s stock market cycle via the liquidity created via its export cycle. Thus, a peaking export cycle argues against a “secular bull market” suggested by consensus.
- Economic cycle near turning point, but arduous property recovery likely. The short cycle as measured by the property investment cycle, however, is nearing its turning point, but still needs a catalyst to initiate a new cycle over the course of next twelve months.
There are many similarities between now and early 2014. For instance, both periods saw Fed tightening and Chinese property struggling, and the authority eventually came to the rescue. There are also analogs in the market trajectories in both periods. For instance, the Shanghai Composite struggled in the first few months in 2014.
Meanwhile, the US short economic cycle is receding from its peak, but not yet appropriately reflecting the recessionary risks confronting the US economy. Given the intertwining of the US and Chinese economies, US macro volatility will find its way to Chinese markets and onto the world via exchange rate, commodities, stocks, and bonds.
- Shanghai ~3-3,500, Hang Seng ~16-23,000, with bouts of volatility. Easing into Cyclicals/Growth over Defensive/Value. Our base case is that China will reopen gradually with zigzags, its property sector will recover slowly with policy support, and a 2023 US recession. If any of these three uncertainties is better than expected, such as faster reopening, swift property recovery or no US recession, it will add to our base-case payoff.
China margin cycle is re-expanding and bodes well for the relative performance of cyclicals and growth over defensive and value. Intuitively, if China reopens and property recovers, cyclical demand should improve. And growth, too.
Of course, the risk is China stays a hermit, property continues to ail, and a US recession. Such triple whammies would render a risk scenario similar to what we have been through in 2022 – no need to elaborate further. Even so, the epic volatility in 2022 suggests that we should have seen some of the lowest points in the Shanghai Composite and the Hang Seng Index in the current cycle.
It is time to look forward.
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