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China’s new normal is going to be lower growth than before, said Fred Neumann, HSBC’s chief Asia economist & co-head of global research.  

“We probably need to adjust our expectations in terms of what the upper ceiling is for China’s growth,” Neumann told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.“

HSBC now sees China’s economy growing 4.9% this year and 4.6% in 2024. Neumann said that will likely be the range of growth for China for the next couple of years and “that’s probably as good as it gets as long as the property market continues to struggle.”

Neumann said even though projections for China’s growth are more modest than they were before the pandemic, there are still some signs of economic recovery underway and growing areas of investments including the electric vehicle space.

Beijing’s current growth target is at 5% for 2023. Data earlier in the day showed China’s manufacturing activity logged an unexpected contraction in October.

— Shreyashi Sanyal

High interest rates are usually bad for tech stocks, and they’re now a key macroeconomic risk for “expensive” ones in particular — but two parts of the sector are in a good position, according to Bernstein.

One of them is “the cheapest sector in terms of [price-to-sales ratio],” it said.

It also named its top picks and refreshed its screens of global tech stocks.

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— Weizhen Tan

Meta Platforms saw its shares caught up in a broad tech sell-off last week — but several analysts remain bullish.

Meta’s stock fell 3.86% last week, although was trading over 2% higher Monday.

“I believe this tech sell off here, [when] we look back three, six months, I view this as more of a golden opportunity, not the time [for it] to head into hibernation mode,” Dan Ives from Wedbush Securities told CNBC’s “” on Thursday, in the midst of the market downturn.

Other analysts also weighed in on the outlook for the stock.

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— Amala Balakrishner

Japan’s retail sales climbed 5.8% in September from a year ago, a slower expansion compared with the 7% growth seen in August.

This is the first month that the growth rate softened after four straight months of accelerating growth, and was slightly lower than the 5.9% expected by economists polled by Reuters.

Total commercial sales came up to 50.35 trillion yen ($337.17 billion) in September, its highest level since March.

— Lim Hui Jie

Japan’s industrial production climbed just 0.2% in September compared to the previous month, according to preliminary figures from the country’s ministry of economy, trade and industry.

While this was a reversal from the 0.7% fall seen in August, the growth rate was sharply lower than the 2.5% month-on-month growth expected by economists polled by Reuters.

Industrial output fell 3.7% year on year in September, a softer contraction than the 4.4% drop in August.

— Lim Hui Jie

Oil prices fell on Monday as investors closely followed the Israel-Hamas war while readying for the Federal Reserve policy meeting later this week.

Brent fell 2.9% at $87.88 per barrel. The U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures declined 3.5% to $82.59 per barrel.

— Alex Harring, Lee Ying Shan

The likelihood of a fourth-quarter rally has “fallen considerably” over the past month, according to Morgan Stanley chief U.S. equity strategist Mike Wilson. 

Wilson has been forecasting the S&P 500 ending the year at 3900, making him among the most bearish strategists on Wall Street according to CNBC’s Market Strategist Survey. While he noted in a Sunday note to clients that initial bullish sentiments waned in September —…