I think I'm likely to remain 'skinny' for now, and prioritize trading over investment at least for the next 10 business days or so.
The spotlight is back on Evergrande after it filed a stock-exchange notice that it may not be able to keep up with its debt obligations.
Institutional investors into Asian real estate say they're bullish heading into next year, but their investment intentions demonstrate a distinct lack of appetite for risk.
Now that we are in an inflationary environment, there are many ways investors can protect themselves by getting ahead of, or even avoiding the effects of inflation.
After Kaisa was unable to make payments due on a wealth-management fund it sold to retail investors, it requested a trading halt in four linked companies.
Evergrande has reportedly struck a deal to sell 51% of its property-management arm, which would raise US$5.1 billion.
This isn't the worst chart out there. In fact, it's one of the better ones.
Watch for relative strength in secondary stocks that have already undone a substantial correction while indices and big-caps catch up to the downside.
The broad Chinese property sector, the mainland's largest single industry, is selling off in Hong Kong as investors try to work out which will be the next domino to fall.
The campaign against Big Tech continues in China, where Ant will likely have to carve out its consumer-loans business.