BEIJING — Consumer spending bounced back in August after a tepid July, according to the China Beige Book’s survey of Chinese businesses released Thursday.
All five categories — apparel, automotive, food, furniture and appliances and luxury — saw a marked increase in sales this month, versus July, the report said.
That’s based on a survey conducted Aug. 17 to 25 of 1,300 businesses, the majority of which were not state owned.
Retail sales rose by a muted 2.5% in July from a year ago, adding to concerns about China’s future economic growth. The National Bureau of Statistics had also released retail sales from services on a year-to-date basis, which was up 20.3% from a year ago. Domestic travel has seen a surge of activity this summer. In a report Monday, Nomura analysts found the seven-day moving average of domestic flights remained more than two times greater than what it was in August 2019.
l think contra day traders like to short Parkson share price to gain from this activity. There appears to be many sellers daily for no apparent reason though the fortunes of Parkson is gaining traction. Even ICapital, TTB's fund had added Parkson shares to it's original holdings gradually over a period of time.
Unfortunately, William Cheng do not defend the share price of Parkson by adding more to his shareholdings when the share price is selling for pittance.
Hopefully, William Cheng will reward long-term loyal shareholders with either dividend or bonus issue by the end of FY 2023, cheers.
@FAInvestor. The holding cost of ICAP in Parkson per AR 2022 is RM1.04. The unrealised loss reported in the Annual Report was (RM20,343,064). The number of shares held in PHB is 22,942,298.
TTB should buy more if he is confident PHB will continue to record more recovery with the pandemic behind us now, cheers.
@FAInvestor. Previously, ICAP holding cost was even higher when the shareholding was halved of current position.
Looks like TTB isn't as good as some say he is. Imagine, Parkson Holdings at such low prices currenty and he's not averaging down but continue to hold high cash.
Today people were panic selling because they have not thought out of box after the news about relaxed SOP was announced by Khairy.
You think top management has never anticipated that due to relax SOP, Covid-19 travel insurance might be not mandatory? If you think that way and with narrow mindset, then you should just sell and dump the shares.
Think bigger and aim bigger. If you think Tunepro must rely only on Covid-19 insurance to survive then you should relook Tunepro's victory in the past when there was no such thing called Covid-19 travel insurance.
Furthermore, Travel insurance covering Covid-19 is not mandatory in certain countries only
Moreover, even if insurance covering Covid-19 is not mandatory, it does not directly mean all passengers will choose not to buy the usual travel insurance and Covid-19 travel insurance at all.
And don't forget public awareness is getting higher, I do not see any direct correlation between the relaxed SOP with insurance business
Because if you relooked in the past, when there was no Covid-19, passengers with higher awareness of protection were still buying travel insurance even though it was optional.
With relaxed SOP,it is even better for Tunepro to relook its strategy to capture the existing market and penetrate new market using new and attractive insurance not limited to travel insurance and insurance covering Covid-19.
Many other initiatives could be done.
Think out of box. If not, you are welcome to dump and my group members will prepare to collect on dip.
@Why2TellMeWhy Ok, I know you are very good at mid-cap stock. I followed you on Parkson a month ago. But FYI this auditorandconsultant guy is still bagholding Tune Protect. You go and ask him
@goldmanbull, I'm quite impressed with the i4 blog you mentioned/wrote. Hardly people do their research. Good work.
I've had this stock since rm3. price went up & down drastically cause of some newbie investor group. if newbie investors weren't busy "trading", this stock would already be at rm0.50 by now. plain vanilla investing is the way.
wowo @anonymousjr - rm3? you dowan average? tan teng boo icapital also double up and average down.
from @kelvin61 @FAInvestor. The holding cost of ICAP in Parkson per AR 2022 is RM1.04. The unrealised loss reported in the Annual Report was (RM20,343,064). The number of shares held in PHB is 22,942,298.
TTB should buy more if he is confident PHB will continue to record more recovery with the pandemic behind us now, cheers.
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I looked at the data source directly from DOSM and it is indeed a good July data.
For department stores like Parkson, its falls under the category of non specialised stores and I typically referenced the retail sales of non specialised stores performance yoy.
For July, its 9% yoy increment. Looking at this data for the last 7 months, it is safe to say that Parkson Malaysia should be trending at mid single digit performance higher compared to last year :) China department stores retail sales data is way stronger though as last 7 months data were at high single digit performance.
Hence, reflected in Parkson China's performance :) Looking forward to Aug's data.
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