John Grey - Solomon Grey Capital (Page 4)

Research

Novo's Better Forecast: Why a Higher 2026 Guide Cannot Repair the Obesity Franchise

Novo Nordisk raised its 2026 outlook, but investors sold the stock. The market is pricing a pipeline gap, not disputing one quarter's execution.

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Research

Brazil's 14% Threshold: Why the Fourth Cut Will Not End the Carry Trade

Brazil's expected fourth rate cut is not a dovish victory. The real test is whether fiscal risk keeps the Selic and the carry trade structurally high.

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Research

Seoul's 18% Rebound: Why Korea's Leveraged Washout Is Not a Bottom

South Korea's record rebound shows forced selling has eased, not that the market has found a durable floor. The next trade is about structure, not speed.

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Research

Blackstone's A$36 Billion Warehouse: Why HSBC's Australian Exit Is a Funding Trade, Not a Housing Bet

Blackstone's A$36 billion HSBC loan-book deal looks like a private-credit victory. The real test is the warehouse funding behind it, just as Australia's mortgage cycle cools.

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Asia

Beijing's Deliberate Restraint: Why the July Politburo Was Discipline, Not Depletion

John Grey — Asia markets desk The Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party met in Beijing on July 30. The readout, published the same evening by Xinhua, ran to a familiar cadence. Beijing acknowledged “difficulties and challenges facing the economy.” It pledged to “accelerate the pace of fiscal spending and

Payments

Swift's Quiet Counter: Why the Tokenised-Deposit Ledger Just Disintermediated the Stablecoin Trade

John Grey — Macro & cross-asset desk On July 9, in a press release out of Brussels, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication announced that its blockchain-based shared ledger was ready for initial use. Seventeen banks from six continents — Citi, HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Wells Fargo, BNY, MUFG,

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Macro

Tokyo's Repricing, Not Doom Loop: Why the 40-Year JGB Auction Told the Real Story

John Grey — Asia markets desk The consensus narrative on Japan last week was doom loop. The yen touched 163.99 against the dollar on Thursday, its weakest print since November 1986. The 10-year Japanese government bond yield closed the week at 2.816 percent, a 17-year high. The

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M&A

The Megadeal Mood Swing: Why 2026's M&A Boom Is Equity-Led Strategic Urgency, Not Leverage Euphoria Redux

Morgan Stanley is projecting $6.4 trillion of announced M&A in 2026, topping 2021's record. The market is reading this as a leverage cycle redux. Goldman's own survey of 500-plus clients and the financing composition of the largest deals tell a different story: this is a strategic-scale cycle f

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Shipping

The Freight Paradox: Tanker Owners Are Ordering the Highest Newbuild Count Since 1973 at the Top of an All-Time Rate Cycle

VLCC daily earnings hit $128,000 last week, war-risk insurance through Hormuz has surged to 10 percent of hull value, and Clarksons's H1 tanker earnings averaged the strongest ever recorded. Owners have responded by ordering 150-plus VLCCs, the highest annual tally since 1973. This is a late-cy

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ECB

Lagarde's Qualified Unanimity: Why the ECB Just Did Forward Guidance While Denying It Does Forward Guidance

The ECB held rates on Thursday but Christine Lagarde disclosed that some Governing Council members asked for a hike and called the milder inflation scenario 'quite unlikely.' Bundesbank's Joachim Nagel and Central Bank of Ireland's Gabriel Makhlouf then spent Friday lining up the September case

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Treasury

Bessent's Bet: Why the Treasury's $270 Billion July Bill Push Just Turned Front-End Refinancing Into a Position Trade

The U.S. Treasury is issuing roughly $270 billion in bills this month, has pushed the bill share of marketable debt to 22 percent from a Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee guideline of 15-20 percent, and is projected to sell $827 billion in bills across 2026 against $360 billion in 2025. Con

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Private Credit

The BlackRock Tell: Why the $12 Billion El Paso Deal Marks the Moment AI Shadow Debt Went Mainstream

BlackRock launched a $12 billion bond deal on Monday to finance a Meta data center in El Paso. It is the second $10-billion-plus off-balance-sheet AI infrastructure vehicle to price inside 30 days, after the Blue Owl-Meta Hyperion structure. The market is trading the deals as validation of the