Financial Orbit wrap 30/11/15

Five sentences or graphics which sum up the Financial Orbit output over the last 24 hours across the website, twitter account and anything else thought about...

1. The Paris climate conference kicks off. The COP21 summit, involving nearly 200 nations, is intended to produce a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions and limit temperature change. The meeting will run through Dec. 11.

On the latter, the view in Beijing today:

 

(h/t @rafferty_tom)

2. I write about the Rexam merger arb spread following some extra disclosures by Ball Corp their putative buyer (link here).

And now a few tweets -

3. On the GPIF losses...

Sensible to reallocate to equities vs JGBs but you will have quarters like this...

4. On sector performances...

Kind of interesting chart on $SPX sector performers during November via @fastFT. (1/2)

Which ex the energy/materials sectors (really underloved = opportunity IMO) perf looks a bit like this one (2/2).

5. Ho ho. "Chicago manufacturing index tumbles...The index fell to 48.7 from 56.2..."

And $EUR to see biggest drop in IMF basket to make way for the #yuan (link here).

Much more on this in the next few days...

...and on November performance tomorrow.