COVID-19 and it’s the effect on the global economy-Andeerson Wong

Trading Discussion News and Economy
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Continued speculation that the pandemic is nearing the peak has continued to fuel optimism into US financial market.Thanks to prospects that United States will soon lift lockdown measures and produce drugs to effectively control the coronavirus pandemic, Nasdaq was up by 6% throughout the week, registering the largest double-week gain since 2001. On the other hand, extreme pessimism continues to loom the forex and oil markets, while a crisis similar to the Asian financial turmoil of 1997-98 is quietly brewing and threatens to hit emerging market currencies.

While Trump said last week that the United States would lift restrictions in phases, Japan expanded state of emergency to the whole country, and the United Kingdom also announced an extension of the blockade measures for three weeks, reflecting that the global pandemic has yet to be controlled. There is also news that Remdesivir, the drug produced and tested by pharmaceutical company Gilead, has a positive effect in treating coronavirus patients, boosting the company’s stock price by 10%.

The Dow component Boeings share also soared 15% after the company announced plans to restart aircraft production in Washington State. But the foreign exchange market and the oil market have been sluggish amid the good news, with some emerging market countries seeing devastating crash of oil price and their national currencies.

Emerging market currencies in sell-off and ZAR has fallen 26% this year.

Some emerging market currencies have continued to record new lows, such as the Indian rupee, the Argentine peso, the Mexican peso, the Brazilian real and the South African rand, while the Turkish lira is approaching historical lows. The South African rand has fallen by 26% year to date, seeing the largest decline among all currencies. The Brazilian real has fallen by 23%, the Mexican peso has fallen by 21%, and the Russian ruble has fallen by 16.5%. The above data reflects that the currencies of emerging market countries and oil-producing countries are in a sell-off wave, facing the crisis of sharp depreciation.

When Soros targeted the Thai central bank and attacked the Thai baht in early 1997, Hong Kong people, indulged in the enthusiasm of the reunification with Mainland, continued to speculate in stock and property markets and ignored signs of the fierce currency battle between Soros and Thailand. Later the baht‘s crash triggered an unprecedented tsunami in Asian financial market. So the sell-off in currencies of emerging markets and oil-producing countries may be a signal that a financial storm is looming large in these emerging markets. This explains why the US dollar index remains strong despite US stocks’ rally last week.

Therefore, if the emerging markets are unfortunately hit by the financial crisis domino effect in the future, there will be another round of dollar shortage and liquidity shortage, which will boost the exchange rate of the US dollar and keep non-US currencies under pressure.

A financial crisis is brewing in emerging markets and non-dollar currencies remains under pressure

In addition to the forex market, the oil market has also suffered a heavy blow as the worst among most affected sectors. From the beginning of the year to last Friday, closing price of WTI futures at New York Mercantile Exchange have plummeted by 70.19%, which is definitely a disaster. A barrel of oil is approximately 159 liters. Taking WTI crude‘s lowest price of US$17.31/barrel last Friday, that’s 0.84 Hong Kong dollars per liter of oil, suggesting that the price of oil fell to a much cheaper level than water.

Therefore, at this stage, there are extremely extreme contradictions in the financial market. The US stock market rebounded amid optimism that the global pandemic has peaked, but at the same time, WTI crude has suffered pressures from the economic fallout and possibility of a recession. Some foreign banks observe that WTI will bottom out at around US$10, I personally think that there is very little room for oil price to plunge further.

Oil prices unlikely to return to the US$30 level in the short term

Unlevered ETF will be a good choice for bottom buyers

While opinions still vary as to whether oil prices have hit the bottom, one thing sure is that whether oil prices bottom out now or continue to drop to the forecast US$10 level, prices wont return to US$30 in the short term even after bottoming out, which will definitely be a big problem for oil companies. Most oil companies, probably except for those in Russia and the Middle East, will be losing money if the prices remain below US$30. Oil companies in North and South America, Europe and Asia may fall into financial difficulties and then face the crisis of bankruptcy. I estimate that in the future, the collapse of oil companies will repeat the collapse of investment banks in the 2008 financial crisis, and eventually off a financial tsunami.

I also cited the above example during one of the shows-the subprime mortgage crisis broke out in the first quarter of 2007, butLehman Brothers didnt go bankrupt immediately in the second quarter of 2007, they collapsed in September of the following year. So I believe that the Great Depression 2.0 derived from the coronavirus pandemic will eventually trigger emerging market crisis, sovereign debt crisis and the collapse of large companies in different sectors, especially energy companies, starting from the second half of 2020. For bottom buyers counting on a rally of oil prices, Unlevered ETF will be a good choice.

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The stock market has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with worrying volatility, as traders have panic-sold out of fear. The market has reached recent unpredictability with large drops, triggering a market wide circuit breaker four times in March.

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Maybe this COVID19 was made on purpose? To destroy other countries’ economies

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I’m sure it was created for economy games.

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The market is already constantly subject to some news and changes, I think that we are definitely adapting to the new conditions and maybe we can work even more efficiently, I somehow do not worry about it at all.

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Now we see a lot of non-standard moments, and this leads to the fact that we do not feel so confident in the market. But I also think that things will get better with time.

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Yes, this situation has become a real stress for both the market and traders.

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analyzing the news related to the coronavirus, it is completely impossible to correctly make a global forecast for Forex, since it turns out to be complete nonsense. At the beginning of the global epidemic, the dollar was rapidly falling, the euro was growing, the peak came at the time when 100 countries recorded the coronavirus, then the dollar began to strengthen, after 400 thousand infected people were recorded, a reversal occurred again, etc.

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COVID-19 changed the global financial system as a whole. On the one hand, we see how business ties were destroyed, which were built for years, harmed small and medium-sized businesses. Some companies had to close their offices and lay off staff. On the other hand, as after the crisis of 2008, new areas and methods of doing business are emerging. The reason is simple - it’s the desire of people to make a profit. Everyone needs the money. And against this background, we can see the growth of forex trading. COVID-19 has given a boost to the industry https://takeprofittech.com/blog/coronavirus-impact-on-retail-brokers-industry/. Saxo Bank reported that Forex brokers generally experienced a surge in trading volume.

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Well, part of this surge in forex trading can also be attributed to the sheer availability of time as people were confined indoors with little else to do.

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I would like to say that the corona virus has brought an impact in the global economy, but are encouraged because the United States of America are working to ensure that the vaccines are obtained in time. People are required to be patient because everything will be back to normal very soon. We hope that the virus is slowly vanishing.

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According to me, the things that were lost due to coronavirus will never be recovered fully. So many countries are trying to recover in thick and thin, but the effects are too much. In addition to that, people still fear that the next waves of the virus will still cause some effects in the world economy.

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Covid-19 has only worsened the things for everyone across the world. Death rates increased, people lost their jobs, opportunities decreased for the newcomers, financial health got deprived and what not. Global trade and development has been shaken and is lagged behind.

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The coronavirus pandemic has reached almost every country in the world.

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I agree that people say that the Coronavirus pandemic gave them the time to pursue their passion and do what they always wanted to do. That’s good! But still, the negatives of the pandemic weigh more than this. People lost their jobs and even worse are the deaths that have not yet stopped. It has shaken the whole world and frankly, I don’t think that it is leaving the world anytime soon.