January 5, 2021
8 COMMENT: Oil's one bright spot for 2021: China
01 Top Story Where is Ma?
02 The ATF Big Picture Rise and fall of a tech titan
03 ATF TV Indian IT crowd
04 Asia Markets
HSI climbs 0.6% to 27,649.86, CSI300 adds 0.7% to 3.528.68. Nikkei 225 falls 0.4% to 27,158.63
05 Telcos enter farm row
Controversial farm bills in India have not only triggered one of the largest protests yet by farmers against the government, it is also leading to yet another spat between the three largest telecom players
06 NYSE halts delisting
Shares of China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile surge after the decision to drop delisting move; Analysts confident about the telcos' fundamentals despite delisting proposal; Beijing had called the move "random, arbitrary and uncertain"
07 China food concerns
Agriculture minister expresses concern over country's ability to produce grains and urges farmers to develop better domestic seeds and protect agricultural land from development
08 Comment
"About the only bright spot for global oil markets last year, and likely for at least the first quarter of 2021, comes from China, whose demand for the fuel actually in 2020 due to its early containment of the coronavirus and a subsequent reopening of most of its economy by early April.”
ATF columnist Tim Daiss
