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On Balance: Weekly Notes for April 13, 2020

BY THE NUMBERS: ❏ +163.83 points, PSEI’s gains in the shortened Holy Week trading; ❏ php6.275Bn, the 20ma net value flows for the same week ❏ 18 straight days of foreign selling, aggregating php16.11Bn or php894.8Mn per session ❏ -29.5%, … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for April 8, 2020

HIGHLIGHTS A HANDFUL OF POSITIVES​ gave investors reason to stick to the  long side of trades in the penultimate session of the week. The  market takes a much-needed break from Thursday and resumes  on Easter Monday. Philstocks Research maintains one … Continue reading

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On Balance: Weekly Notes for April 6, 2020

MARKET WRAP THE PSEI posted its 5th weekly gain in 14, this YTD. ​It also marks the  first back-to-back weekly gains since the last two weeks of  December. The last two weeks added an aggregate 568.21 points to push the … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for April 3, 2020

MARKET WRAP A SURGE IN THE LAST 15-MINUTES ​halved the losses, keeping  the PSEI above the 5300-line. The benchmark slumped 128.39  points (-2.37%) from the get-go and gradually kept to a  southern heading the rest of the way, ballooning the … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for April 2, 2020

HIGHLIGHTS SHARE PRICES EXTENDED GAINS​ to a second  session, pushing the PSEI past the 5,400 line, as it  advanced 87-points or 1.64%. All sectors were also  in the green even as positive market breadth  thinned to +13 (99 advancers versus … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for April 1, 2020

Highlights Though most stocks lost on average around 30% soon after the ECQ was imposed, it has, to-date, rallied back close to where their respective prices were prior to the lock-down — a handful are even doing better. This table … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for March 31, 2020

Highlights PSEI finished the day lower by 135 points, managing to hold above 5,000  which it threatened to break under early in the day. All sectors posted  losses. It was the same story across the region with Tokyo stocks slumping  … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for March 26, 2020

OUR VIEW Hope springs eternal.  A rally in the US sends sparks flying in the local market. Yet, even as investors join the general mood and cheer of overnight markets, the “caution” remains palpably thick. Strong openings and reaches into … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for March 25, 2020

OUR VIEW Our position and stance remains as reiteration of yesterday’s proposition: To wit LOOK FOR STOCKS with sound fundamentals & reasonable narratives. Though there may be a few, focus on counters that are as far away from COVID19 as … Continue reading

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On Balance: Daily Notes for March 24, 2020

OUR VIEW LOOK FOR STOCKS with sound fundamentals & reasonable narratives. Though there may be a few, focus on counters that are as far away from COVID19 as possible — where impact is either of the inverse nature, or of … Continue reading

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