13 August 2024 | 9:27AM EDT Americas Restaurants: SBUX appoints current CEO of CMG as new Chairman/CEO This morning, SBUX announced that Brian Niccol has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer, with the current CEO/chairman Laxman Narasimhan stepping down effective immediately. Mr. Niccol will join the company on September 9, with current CFO Rachel Ruggeri serving as interim CEO until then. CMG's Board of Directors has appointed Scott Boatwright, Chief Operating Officer, as Interim CEO. SBUX: ...

13 August 2024 | 7:45PM EDT Americas Energy Key learnings from earnings season that support The Future of Utilities Capex; Buy SRE, PWR The Future of Utilities Capex Explore > With second quarter earnings season now behind us, we reflect on key learnings that support The Future of Utilities Capex, our constructive view on Utilities, and our Buy rating on Quanta Services (PWR). We believe commentary from utilities continues to point to positive capital spending revisions as we look to the Fall and early 2025 ...

13 August 2024 | 11:07AM EDT Americas Agriculture: Proposed changes in LCFS Late Monday (8/12), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), subject to a public hearing & vote on November 8th. This follows prior proposal amendments issued in December 2023 that had been scheduled for hearing & vote in February 2024 that was ultimately postponed. Key highlights of proposed changes 1) 9% step-down in 2025 CI reduction. CARB is proposing to modify the nea ...

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9 August 2024 | 11:07AM HKT China: CPI inflation increased in July on higher food prices Bottom line: China's headline CPI inflation increased to +0.5% yoy in July from +0.2% yoy in June, while headline PPI inflation was flat at -0.8% yoy in July. Food price inflation rose across the board in July due to a decrease in supply from adverse weather. Both non-food price inflation and core inflation edged down in July, indicating continued weakness of domestic demand. PPI inflation in upstream sectors rose modes ...

9 August 2024 | 2:58PM EDT Energy, Utilities & Mining Pulse: Investors Asking: How to Navigate Summer Volatility? The past two weeks have been highly volatile in the markets and across our Natural Resources coverage. As such, we ask our senior analyst team to reflect on where investors are positioned and general sentiment in their respective sector.The team additionally highlights a stock that has underperformed their expectations where they would be more positive from here. We additionally ask the team to ...

11 August 2024 | 7:15PM HKT _ Navigating China Internet: Key investor focuses into Tencent & Alibaba prints & what to watch out for With Tencent and Alibaba kicking off the China Internet results season amongst the mega-caps on Weds and Thurs (after HK market close) respectively, we expect broadly in-line 2Q prints, where we estimate Tencent adj. operating profit to grow 33% yoy on accelerating growth and Alibaba's group EBITA to decline 11% yoy on core businesses investments (mostly in-line with sell-side ...

9 August 2024 | 8:07PM EDT _ Healthcare Pulse: Reflecting On 2Q24 Earnings Amid An Uncertain Macro... Investor sentiment; market color; sector themes; charts to | --- | --- | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------- ...

9 August 2024 | 10:10AM BST _ Ferrous Tracker: Drop in Steel Output Hits Iron Ore Consumption n The Platts 62%Fe iron ore index (CFR China) returned to $99.3/t yesterday (8th August), down 4% from last Friday. n With little change in both supply and stocks, we view declining Chinese iron ore consumption as being the key factor driving prices lower. Mysteel's sample of 247 steel mills showed a 2% WoW drop in consumption of imported iron ore, reflecting a similar decline in hot metal output. n Meanwhile, flat ...

12 August 2024 | 6:31AM HKT China: Three things in China Three quick highlights from China: ■ Nuances of the July trade data: On the surface, China's July exports missed expectations (7.0% yoy vs. 9.5% Bloomberg consensus) and China's July imports surprised to the upside (7.2% yoy vs. 3.2% Bloomberg consensus). However, the import strength may be related to more working days, and the export miss does not necessarily imply lower export volume. In June, export value increased 8.6% yoy but export volume jumped ...