In our inaugural Asia Monthly for 2026, we share our regional credit outlook for the year, with a focus on China, Macau, India and Indonesia. We also provide a review of 2025, in which we discuss the performance of major Asian credit indices and review UST curve movements for the year. In addition, we provide a recap of major news and macroeconomic releases in December 2025, summarise the Top/Bottom performers, recent USD bond issuances and rating actions in Asian corporate credit, as well a...
Thanks to higher memory prices, Sony has a tough couple of years ahead, which is a pity, because the firm’s achievements in FY25 should have set it on a path to solid earnings growth in both years. Problematically, Sony is now heavily exposed to decisions by others – notably Apple’s iPhone pricing – and the outlook could be considerably worse than Pelham Smithers outlines in this earnings preview for FY25 and beyond.
2025 was another tougher year for the Japanese incumbents; with KDDI and SoftBank rising modestly and NTT flat, but all (including Rakuten) underperforming a strong Nikkei. This despite prices rising in Mobile. We think the sector is modestly undervalued and will grind higher with EPS. SoftBank remains our top pick.
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Oriflame, Samvardhana Motherson, Telecom Italia, International Personal Finance, Novelis, Intrum, Nexans, Italmatch Chemicals, Asmodee, Lecta, Hapag-Lloyd, Ontex, Modulaire, Vedanta Resources, Softbank Group, Teva
This note contains two articles related to Sony: One highlighting how November sales of the 5-yr-old PS5 is outselling the Switch 2 and an update on Sony’s new game Marathon. It is due in next year but PSA’s gaming expert, Pelham Smithers, is not expecting much.
Moody's Ratings (Moody's) commented that Oracle Corporation's (Oracle) increase in contract backlog is impressive, though the counterparty risk and spending and commitments required to support that growth remain significant credit concerns and primary drivers of the negative outlook. The Baa2 senior...
Today, we are publishing the Semicap Equipment section of our 29th Tech Infrastructure Quarterly Bible. The Tech Bible is a must-read for any tech investor, as it summarizes the quarterly earnings reports from the over 140 companies we track, providing an update on our key perspectives and convictions. In the coming weeks we will publish sections on Automotive, Hyperscale & Cloud, Telecom Equipment, Industrials, PCs, Enterprise IT, and Foundry. 3Q25 semicap revenues were flat QoQ, with China up...
In our latest Asia Monthly, we discuss the performance of major Asian credit indices and review UST curve movements in November 2025. We also provide a recap of major news and macroeconomic releases, including those from the US, China, India, Indonesia and Japan. In addition, we summarise the top/bottom performers, recent USD bond issuances and rating actions in Asian corporate credit, as well as a list of our recent research. The Asia Monthly publication serves to keep investors updated on ...
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Applus, Verisure, CeramTec, Kiloutou, Odido, Eolo, Flora Food Group, Altice France (SFR), evoke, FiberCop, Tele Columbus, Engineering Group, Altice International, Intralot, Mehilainen, Itelyum Group, Voyage Care, Grupo Antolin, Benteler International, Neopharmed, Cheplapharm, Industria Macchine Automatiche, Allwyn (formerly Sazka), Victoria, Best Secret, Softbank Group, Profine, Bombardier, Grune...
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