Ideas
John Woods
Asia CIO and Head of Investment Solutions Asia, Lombard Odier
7:08
Overweight South Korea and Taiwan for AI exposure.
South Korea and Taiwan remain attractive overweight allocations within emerging markets due to their strong exposure to the 'New China' themes of AI, renewables, and memory chips, which will continue to drive long-term growth despite short-term retail volatility.
John Woods
Asia CIO and Head of Investment Solutions Asia, Lombard Odier
11:16
MSCI China offers better new economy tech exposure.
The MSCI China Index offers a superior way to play the 'New China' theme compared to broad indices, as it contains a higher concentration of the technology and online ecosystem companies driving the country's new economy.
John Woods
Asia CIO and Head of Investment Solutions Asia, Lombard Odier
13:06
Overweight Brazil equities based on attractive valuations.
Brazil is an attractive overweight allocation within the emerging market complex based on compelling value and supportive underlying macro growth.
John Woods
Asia CIO and Head of Investment Solutions Asia, Lombard Odier
13:50
Short CHF, HKD, and JPY for carry.
With central banks staying higher for longer, the currency carry trade remains highly favorable when funding through low-yielding currencies like the Swiss Franc, Hong Kong Dollar, and Japanese Yen to buy higher-yielding emerging market assets.
John Woods
Asia CIO and Head of Investment Solutions Asia, Lombard Odier
14:35
Brent crude will sustain a geopolitical premium.
Markets will have to accept a semi-permanent, periodic disruption of oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz as the new normal, which will sustain a structural $5 to $15 geopolitical risk premium on Brent crude prices.
Apple partnership cements Alibaba as AI gatekeeper.
Apple's partnership with Alibaba to roll out AI services in China serves as a strategic certification from Beijing that Alibaba's platform is a safe, compliant infrastructure, which will cement its role as a critical gatekeeper for global AI in China and build its long-term business.
Buy CXMT suppliers to play its IPO.
With global investors largely shut out of CXMT's upcoming mega-IPO in mainland China, traders are successfully using proxy trades to gain exposure, driving massive rallies in the IPO's sponsors like CICC and supply-chain partners like Piotech and Jiangsu Yoke Technology.
CXMT's IPO will pressure DRAM incumbents' margins.
CXMT's massive $10 billion IPO will provide a massive war chest to aggressively build out capacity, threatening to create a supply glut by 2027-2028 and severely hurting the conventional DRAM market share and profit margins of incumbents like Samsung and SK Hynix.
Foreign tech outflows will pressure the won.
The Korean Won is likely to face renewed weakness after any short-term gains, driven by heavy foreign selling and rebalancing outflows from Korean tech stocks, compounded by a lack of intervention supporting the Japanese Yen.
US economic outperformance will support the dollar.
The US Dollar will remain structurally strong over the medium term due to US economic outperformance, robust asset markets attracting unhedged inflows, and a narrowing of the geopolitical risk premium that previously held the currency back.
Robust Chinese exports will drive yuan appreciation.
The Chinese Yuan is positioned for gradual appreciation over the medium term, supported by a very strong export performance, even as domestic activity remains soft.
This Bloomberg Markets video, published July 16, 2026,
features John Woods, Catherine Lim, Winnie Hsu, Shuli Ren, Mitul Kotecha
discussing EWY, EWT, MCHI, EWZ, CHF, JPY, BNO, BABA, 688072.SS, 002409.SZ, 3908.HK, 000660.KS, 005930.KS, KRW, USD, CNY.
11 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.
Speakers:
John Woods,
Catherine Lim,
Winnie Hsu,
Shuli Ren,
Mitul Kotecha
· Tickers:
EWY,
EWT,
MCHI,
EWZ,
CHF,
JPY,
BNO,
BABA,
688072.SS,
002409.SZ,
3908.HK,
000660.KS,
005930.KS,
KRW,
USD,
CNY
