#chasing cars ch 4.5

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Chasing Cars | ch 4.5 (jjk)

☆summary: when your brother goes to study on a semester abroad, your life collides with his best friend Jeon Jungkook, who's coincidentally your roommate. Will you survive the collision, or will you crumble into dust?

☆pairings: brother's best friend!Jungkook x younger sister!female reader

☆rating: 18+ (minors DNI, some chapters contain mature content)

☆genre: forbidden love?au, college!au, slice of life!au, smut, angst (as usual a lot of it), fluff

☆warnings: explicit content: mentions of jerking off and of fingering/cum play

☆word count: 852

☆a/n: please enjoyyyy this one made me v soft

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☆series masterpost

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If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol

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Campus is encased in ice, frozen on the spot in a magical way. Jungkook has been admiring it as you walk together, and he wonders where the magic of the moment truly lies. Is it in the ice coating everything, or in your presence next to him?

He pushes the thought away, trying to focus on what you’re saying.

“And then I was sick the whole night,” you say, retelling him a story of the first - and last - time you drank vodka.

He laughs. “You’re not supposed to drink a whole bottle to yourself, you know that?”

You glare at him, your eyes narrowed. “No way,” you let out. “I would have never guessed that.”

He grins at your sass, teasingly nudging you with his elbow. You shriek, almost slipping on a patch of ice, but he’s quick to grab your arm, steadying you. You look up, startled, your eyes going wide as you meet Jungkook’s gaze.

His heart picks up in his chest as blush creeps on your cheeks, and he’s struck thinking you truly are the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen. He can hardly believe last night happened - you’re too pure to have partaken in the action that unfolded in your bedroom, like maybe he stained you. And he wouldn’t be surprised if he did. His heart clenches in his chest at the thought, and he lets go of you.

“You okay?” he asks, gulping.

You nod, taking a deep breath as you look away from him. “Yeah. You?”

Jungkook chuckles. “How could I not be, when I’ve got you by my side?”

He immediately cringes at the words, at the truth they hold, and his thoughts slide to Taehyung. What would Taehyung say if he heard what Jungkook said? If he knew the kind of things Jungkook thinks about you?

You roll your eyes, looking up to the sky as if searching for salvation. “You’re annoying, you know that, right?”

“You love it, peach,” Jungkook teases, trying to ignore the way his heart warms in his chest.

It’s been doing that on and off since yesterday, since he kissed you like you were the last two people on Earth. He hates it, hates the roller coasters that it’s been taking him on. It makes him feel vulnerable, and it’s not a feeling he enjoys at all.

Not when it brings back a share of insecurity he thought he’d gotten rid of when he started college.

You make a noncommittal sound, and then lead Jungkook towards the library building, though you both have no intention to go in. Jungkook follows you, listening to you as you start talking about a class you hate - biochemistry? - and he laughs when you tell him how the professor barely speaks English to begin with.

“I have a professor like that in econ too,” he admits. “I’m sure she is incredibly intelligent, but it’s so hard to actually understand what she’s saying that I feel like we’re never talking about the same thing.”

“Right!” you exclaim. “It’s annoying. Like we’re a good college, they could at least make sure the professors speak decent English.”

Jungkook agrees, but he doesn’t say anything. Indeed, his attention is elsewhere. He notices your friend in the distance, the shy one, and his lungs freeze for a second before he grabs your arm, pulling you in the other direction.

“What are you doing?” you let out, sounding slightly offended.

“I’m hungry,” Jungkook states, offering you a lopsided grin that he hopes serves as a good enough distraction. “Want to go home and grab something to eat?”

You frown for a few seconds, looking up at the sky. The clouds have been slowly dispersing, and blue peeks from behind them, revealing that the sun has started its descent towards the horizon.

“You’re always hungry,” you reply, letting out an annoyed huff.

“And what about it?”

You laugh at his words, and Jungkook grins, his heart skipping a beat in his chest yet again.

Taehyung, he reminds himself. 

He desperately needs to get a grip of himself before things get out of hand. Though, he reckons they’ve gotten out of hand already. They’ve gotten out of hand when he jerked off under your watchful gaze yesterday night, fingering you with his cum after. They got out of hand even before that, when he decided to kiss you and pull you on his lap until all the thoughts he’d been trying to ignore since the beginning of the semester last year came forth, screaming in his head until he couldn’t ignore their existence anymore.

He sighs, burying his hands in the pockets of his pants as you walk, if only so that he doesn’t reach to grab your hand. He’s like a kid next to you, like a dumb teenager who’s never seen a girl before. 

He hates it, almost as much as he loves the excitement that it brings. It’s all too confusing, but he figures that, as long as the power outage is still going strong, he can pretend that it doesn’t matter.

Reality is bound to hit again soon anyway.

Read chapter four here!

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hope you guys enjoyeddd!! jungkook is such a mess lmao :') let me know what you think!

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BTBY Ch. 11

Story Summary: For Namjoon, the moment he set his sights on being the #1 rapper, he pushed the symbol to the side and hated it. Love should be chosen, not forced on you. He didn’t believe in fate and this mark on his wrist was a big “fuck you” to all that.

Previous Chapter found here

Chapter summary: A bedside hospital chat

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“I feel so stupid for not even noticing.” Ben runs his hand down his face. “She never said anything to me about it.”

“Didn’t you guys agree that you didn’t care about it?” RM asks,

“Yeah, it’s just...so weird that it actually happened.”

“Well, she told me  when she met me that she already had a boyfriend and wasn’t interested. I’m sure she just didn’t want to worry you,” 

“I’m sorry. When did you say the two of you met?” Ben asks, seeming to ignore the part where RM said [Y/N] had rejected her soulmate for him.

“About 6 months  ago. She helped us prep for an award show.”

“Huh. Well.” Ben just stands there opening and closing his mouth like a fish, “I’ve uh been here for days. Do you mind staying here while I go home and grab a real shower?”

“No, of course not. Grab some real sleep too, you look like you need it.” 

Ben wanders off in a daze. He seemed like a perfectly normal guy.  RM wanders over to the nurse station to inquire about your doctor and their whereabouts. He is informed that your main Doc is out until tomorrow morning but they will page him and let him know [y/n]’s soulmate is here.

Namjoon goes back into your hospital room. The blood pressure cuff had just done it’s semi-regular squeezing. Nothing had changed. He pulls up a chair next to you. He didn’t feel any emotions rolling off of you right now. Maybe you were dreaming. Namjoon hears a light knock at the door, it was Taehyung with some coffee and water. “I thought I’d see if you wanted either of these.”

“Yeah, thanks. You can come in.” RM gestures to the other chair in the room.

 Taehyung sits the drinks down on a table.

“Where’s her fiancé? He asks looking around.

“He went home to shower and hopefully rest. He looks like he needs it.” Namjoon awkwardly fidgets with his hand. 

“How did he take everything?”

“He seemed very weirded out by it. I guess she never told him that she met me. And he never noticed her wrist.”

“People see what they want to see,” Taehyung remarked, snacking on some vending machine chips. Namjoon pondered on this for a moment and turned back to look at you. You look like you’re sleeping peacefully. He’s thankful for whatever pain medication they put you on. 

“I’m going to run back to the hotel for a bit and check in with the team. Do you want me to bring back anything?” he stands up and starts checking his pockets for all his stuff.

“Yeah throw some clothes, deodorant, and a phone charger in my backpack and bring it when you get a chance. No rush. Thanks. I really appreciate this.”

Taehyung comes over and hugs Namjoon around the shoulders. “You always look out for me. I’m happy to return the favor. I’ll be back in a while.” He walks out and closes the door behind him.

Namjoon lets out a deep breath he didn’t know he was holding in. This whole fiasco was yet another example of why this whole soulmate thing was bullshit. He had been so angry at you right up until the minute he entered the hospital room and saw how small and frail you looked. It was easy to be mad at you when you were an abstract idea. It was much harder when you were the woman who he had laughed with and hung out with, lying in a hospital bed with tubes sticking out of you.

He stands up and walks over to the door, closing it. He looks back over at you, looks down at your matching wrists, and this time he feels much more sad than angry. He takes your hand in his and intertwines your fingers.

“Hey. I need you to wake up so I can yell at you. I was in the middle of a show when you did this. I’m sure the rumors have already started,” he teases you. “Running into me and hurting your wrist is one thing, running into a car is some next level shit.” He smiles. 

“Your fiancé seems nice and super normal. You never told him about us though so I think he’s very surprised. Don’t worry, I’m not going to say anything about that night.” Namjoon adds in quietly. “I think about that night a lot,” he adds. “At night, when I’m alone. I think about you. I think about how things might be different if I wasn’t in the band.” he strokes your arm gently.

  “You know? If you wanted to see me, your Director has my number, you didn’t have to go all dramatic on me. I wouldn’t have minded hearing from you actually.” he adds quietly. He looks at the matching marks on your wrists, so close now they are almost touching. “I remember the day I got this. I was 4.5 years old and I was so excited. I woke up with it and ran into my parents bedroom. We actually celebrated your birthday that day. I insisted on it. It was so dumb, but my parents are kind so they went along with it and we made a cake for you and I made a wish for you.” Namjoon takes a deep breath. “I wished that I would find you someday and you would be just as excited about me as I was about you. Every year on my birthday and on yours I thought about you; where you were. What you were doing. And my parents celebrated with me too. Because it was important to me.” Namjoon grabs a few tissues and blots his eyes where a few tears have started to fall. 

“Until I was around 14. I became too cool for any of that bullshit. I had crushes on other girls but I felt weird because I had a soulmate. I had other things I wanted to pursue and I didn’t want you holding me back. I didn’t even know you but I was already blaming you for stuff. How fucked up is that?” he laughs dryly,  “I remember that year my parents assumed we were going to celebrate your birthday and I told them that I wished I didn’t have my mark. That I wanted to live my life without you. I didn’t want a soulmate and the whole thing was stupid. I’ll never forget the looks on their faces. I don’t think they have ever been more ashamed. And so I stuck with that feeling for years.” Namjoon runs his fingers over the writing on your wrists.

“And then you so rudely ran into me last year. And chased me. I was absolutely terrified.” he smiles as he remembers, “I went and hid in my room. Suga had to make me come out. I tried to hide behind Jin so you wouldn’t see me. And you were not at all what I expected. You were independent and bossy and so comfortable doing your own thing. You didn’t need me. And I loved that. I don’t want you to need me. We should be with who we’re with because we want to be, not because of this forced tattoo.”

Namjoon gently sits your hand down and gets up to stretch and get some water. He dries his tears but still feels so sad. You must be ‘awake,’

He comes back over and sits next to you and starts talking about random stuff to see if you will respond. “Come on sweetheart, wake up.” 

 You hear a voice you haven’t heard this close to you in ages. You had heard it in interviews, you had stalked it on youtube videos, but it seemed so close. RM. You try to open your eyes but even that seems impossible. You try to focus on it, and hope that he just keeps talking. 

“The choreographer there sucked; he didn’t show up to do the blocking ahead of time. You would have been embarrassed. And then tore them a new one. While smiling,”

Yep, that was definitely him talking to you, but why? Was this a dream? You had dreamt about him all the time. You loved and hated it. It always left you feeling so sad the next day, a pain in your heart. Stupid soulmate. You need to wake up so you can get on with your day. You determine yourself, open your damn eyes.

Namjoon feels a mix of sad, confused, and irritated  as he sees your eyes start to flutter open. “Oh my God. [Y/n], yes wake up.” you hear him say. You open your eyes. The light is blinding. You let out a small whimper and close your eyes. “Oh, shit hold on,” you hear him get up and turn the lights down.

“Sorry sweetheart, there. Try again,” you hear him encourage you. You are definitely dreaming. RM is here and being nice to you and calling you sweetheart. Just like that night in February.

You open your eyes. He looks the same but his hair is blonde. “I like your hair.” you croak out. Your voice is gravely like it hasn’t been used in a while.

“Oh my God,” he just laughs. 

If this is a dream you want to stay in it. You close your eyes again.

“No, no, no, I need you to open your eyes.” you feel him gently shake your arm. 

You slowly become aware of the rest of your surroundings. You are in a bed. A hospital bed. You are definitely in a hospital, you notice a million things sticking out of your arms, electrodes on your chest, a cuff on your arm, is that dried blood on you? You feel him hold your hand, “Hey, calm down. Calm down. You’re in the hospital. You were in a car accident. You've been out of it for a few days.”

You start crying. You can’t help it. This is fucked up. Where is Ben? Why does your head feel like it’s splitting in half, why is RM here? Why are you glad to see him here instead of Ben? Why is this happening? You hear the heart rate monitor start to climb and you are trying to calm down but this is just so fucked up.

“Hey, calm down. You need to breathe. You are safe. I’m going to call the nurse, ok? Do you want me to leave?” he asks, gently holding your hand still.

You shake your head ‘no’ 

“You’re in pain.” he comments.

You squeeze your eyes shut and nod your head. 

“I’ll go get someone,” he tries to leave but you aren’t letting go of his hand. “Hey, he leans in so he’s close to your ear and whispers, “I’ll be right back ok? You need a nurse and you need pain medication. I Can feel how bad it hurts.” 

You lay there breathing through the pain. What’s the last thing you actually remember? You were at work and left to grab lunch. And then what? You realize you can’t remember. Shit. You were in a car accident? Was the other person ok? Oh God. If you were in a coma what happened to Namjoon.

You hear a bunch of people come into the room and immediately there are nurses taking your vitals, shining lights into your eyes, and changing your IV drip. Jesus. You felt like a big deal. 

“Alright, there we go,” you hear one of the nurses speak to you. “I’m Jennifer. I’m going to give you a few minutes with your friend here while this drip gets started and then I’ll be in with the doctor in awhile ok?”

You give a slight nod of your head, which is still pounding. You close your eyes again. Tears are involuntarily running down your face. This is all fucked.

“Hey,” you hear RM’s voice. 

You open an eye suspiciously. Not a dream you guess. “Hey,” you manage to croak out.

“You sound like shit,” he responds.

“You look like shit,’ you respond without thinking. He starts laughing. 

“I’m not even going to let you see a mirror, but I think you should know that of the two of us,  I am in much better shape.” he flashes his dimples at you and you once again feel like this has to be a dream.

“Shit. I’m sorry I got hit by a car. Did it hurt you?” you ask while gesturing to a container of water that has been left on the nightstand. He hands it to you.

“Yeah. I was performing in London and all of a sudden my legs stopped working and I collapsed. I had no idea what was going on until Jin stated the obvious.” 

“Sorry.”

“Hey, it’s ok. Just you know, don’t do it again.” he smiles.

“You cut your fingers a lot,” you comment without thinking.

“..I do. I’m a terrible chef but my production team thinks it’s hilarious to make me try and cook things.”

“Please make them stop.” you say half-joking.

He runs a hand through his hair, “I’ll see what I can do.” 

“Are you feeling better?” you ask.

“How the hell is it that you are in a hospital bed and you are asking me how I feel?” he asks incredulously.

You just sit there and shrug. The pain medication is starting to kick in making you feel drowsy. “Sorry I ruined your show,” you say as you start to feel very sleepy. “Thanks for coming. I missed you.” 

Namjoon sits there for a minute feeling like the world’s biggest douchebag and then takes out his phone to text Taehyung. He walks out to the nurse’s station. He emotionally prepares himself,  “Excuse me, has anyone called her fiancé? He went home last night to rest but I’m sure he’d want to know she’s awake.”

The nurse looks at the chart, “Ah yes, we had our social worker call a few minutes ago and leave  a message.”

“Great, thanks.”  Namjoon responds and decides to leave the hospital. 

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Taehyung is sitting at the desk in the hotel room writing when Namjoon comes back in. He looks up, “Hey, Sorry, I was on a meeting with the guys and then the producer for a while,” 

“It’s fine,” Namjoon says as he lays facedown on the bed. He keeps willing himself not to cry but he can’t help it. The tears fall hot on the cheap polyester bedspread. Taehyung closes his laptop and sits on the other bed facing him.

“What happened?” 

“I didn’t want to leave,” Namjoon says quietly.

“Did somebody make you leave?” Taehyung asks gently, not quite understanding.

“She has a fiancé. I’ve spent my whole life telling her I didn’t want her. This whole time all I’ve thought about is myself and one of the first things she asks me is if I’m ok. I feel like a complete asshole. I don’t deserve her as my soulmate.”

Tae just sits there for a minute and then walks over with a box of tissues. “Yeah. You have been kind of a dick about her.” he sighs. “Do you want me to stay here or do you need some space?”

“I want to be alone,” he chokes out. 

“If you change your mind, just text me,” Taehyung grabs his laptop and quietly leaves the room.

Namjoon stays like that, indulging his sadness for a few more minutes. He rolls over and takes out his phone. He has one picture of the two of you at the awards show together. From time to time he takes it out and remembers the night you spent together. He looks at it now. What would have happened that night if he would have asked to stay? For you to come with him. What would have happened if he hadn’t been so dead set against you. He sighs and then sees a text pop up on his phone.

[unidentified number]: hey this is really awkward. This is Xavier, [y/n]s friend. I usually come to visit around d this time of day and she's finally awake  but no one has heard from Ben. She is flipping out. I don’t want to leave her alone to go one a wild goose chase for her douchebag fiancé so can you please either come here or go to their apartment?

Jesus. Namjoon thought. He could just ignore this. He could walk away and be done with this. But he knew he couldn’t. He sighed, tears still staining his cheeks.

[RM]: Ok, yeah I’ll be there in 10 minutes. 

He went to the bathroom and washed his face. NEXT CHAPTER

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Economic data of the day (Singapore Time; GMT + 8)

Speeches

1700 – EC – European Central Bank’s Benoit Coeure Speaks in Brussels

1750 – EC – ECB’s Ignazio Angeloni Speaks in Bologna, Italy

2230 – US – Federal Reserve’s James Bullard Speaking in New York

0500 – UK – Bank of England’s Andy Haldane speaks in San Francisco

Overnight news

United States

GDP grew 2.1% YoY (Exp. 2.0%) from 1.9% in Q4. Despite the revision the economy grew just 1.6% in 2016, the weakest performance since 2011. Growth in consumer spending rose at a revised 3.5% rate (Prev: +3%). Domestic demand grew 3.4%, the fastest pace in two years.

Imports spiked 9% (Prev: +8.5%), the fastest rate since Q4 2014. Exports fell more than estimated. As such the trade deficit subtracted a revised 1.82 percentage points from growth (Prev: 1.70 percentage points). Businesses accumulated inventories at a revised rate of $49.6bn (Prev: $46.2bn). Business investment was revised to +1.3% (Prev: +4.5%). After-tax corporate profits spiked 22.3% YoY, the largest annualised gain in nearly five years. As a share of the overall economy, profits accounted for 9.2% of GDP, up from 7.8% a year ago.

Core PCE grew 1.3% QoQ (Exp. 1.2%). This is the inflation measure that the Fed is watching.

Personal consumption grew 3.5% (Exp. 3.0)

US President Donald Trump

Trump warned conservative congressional Republicans that he would work against them in the midterm elections next year if they don’t support his agenda. “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast,” Trump tweeted. “We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!”

Federal Reserve

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said the US economy is on solid footing and any weakness in Q1 is just a bump in the road. “While growth in the first quarter may come in on the weak side, I think this largely reflects transitory factors and residual seasonality in the data.”

Mester forecast 2017 GDP growth to be above 2% and as such she believes “the conditions are in place for a sustained return over the next year or so to our symmetric goal of 2% inflation.”

Mester said that if the economy performs as she expects it will, the Fed should continue to raise interest rates. “My current assessment is that the pace of removal won’t call for an increase in the fed funds rate at each meeting, but it does mean more than the one-increase-per-year seen in the past two years. This upward policy path will help prolong the expansion, not curtail it.”

South Africa

South African President Jacob Zuma fired Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and eight other cabinet members in a high-stakes power play that may threaten his own presidency and risks the nation’s investment grade credit rating.

Gordhan was replaced by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, who has no financial or business experience, while lawmaker Sfiso Buthelezi takes over from Mcebisi Jonas as deputy finance minister. The cabinet overhaul came in a late-night move that threatens to split the 105-year-old ruling African National Congress and trigger a revolt against the president. The rand extended losses, heading for its worst week in more than a year.

Foreign exchange

The USD was bid due to good data in the US – GDP, Core PCE – and the USD is resuming the trend move higher. Next target for DXY is the 100d MA at 101.164.

The EUR continued its drop following the Reuters report from yesterday saying that ECB doesn’t want to send the wrong message about stimulus being removed too early and German inflation came in lower than expected at 0.2% MoM (Exp. 0.4%) and 1.6% YoY (Exp. 1.8%). We are still in the middle of the range but the break of 1.0700 was important. We don’t see any bounce coming until 1.0620.

USDJPY is breaking back the 111.75 resistance level and if we manage to close above, we will be back in the range of 112/115.

The GBP was the only currency rallying against the USD on short-term stops following the trigger of Article 50.

Emerging markets: USDZAR exploded higher after the firing of the finance minister reaching the 100d MA at 13.48.77. It’s very hard to say where this pair could go if the political turmoil continues. There is now a risk of downgrade by rating agencies.

Foreign exchange volatilities

The market still wants to sell USD gamma because the only thing coming in terms of data is the nonfarm payrolls and then it will be Easter holidays. I would guess that if the USD rally continues for one or two more days, the market will start chasing up the volatilities.

There is a large strike today in USDJPY at 111.50 for $1bn.

Rates

UST were under pressure through most of session, triggered by upwards GDP revisions and gains in oil which lifted inflation expectations; 5s30s steepened as much as 1.6 basis points on the session, the widest jump since the March Federal open Market Committee decision

Bunds futures rallied Thursday, boosted by soft German CPI prints

Commodities

Equities

US indices were up in the region of 0.3%, lifted by oil prices, which managed to close back above $50/b. US financials also lifted the index with strong performances overnight.

European markets finished mixed with strong gains on the Dax and CAC 40 as they rose more than 0.4%. The Dax is now 150 points or 1.2% away from its high in April 2016. The FTSE 100 closed flat and lost 0.06%.

Lululemon reported fourth-quarter and fiscal 2016 earnings and its $1 EPS came in below consensus expectations. Lululemon also forecast disappointing guidance related to a sluggish first quarter. It dropped $15.54 or or 23% to $50.76, its lowest level since early 2016.

ConocoPhillips soared 8.8% and closed at $50 after agreeing to sell a large portion of its Canadian assets to Cenovus Energy (CVE). ConocoPhillips broke its resistance trend line from December 2016 and we see upwards momentum continuing. CVE meanwhile closed 13.7% lower on the purchase.

Asia Pacific equities

Hong Kong

Analyst ratings

– Everbright Sec. (601788 CH): Cut to underperform at Credit Suisse

– Huatai Securities (601688 CH): Cut to neutral at Credit Suisse

– Shimao Property (813 HK): Raised to outperform at CCB Intl

– Yinyi Real Estate (000981 CH): Raised to outperform at SWS Research

– Xinjiang Goldwind (002202 CH): Cut to neutral at Macquarie

Preview

– Developers: Guangzhou to tighten rules on home sales, city govt says; Qingdao City bans selling homes bought within 2 years

– Energy: China teapots run rate falls from record to 60.05%: Oilchem

– Luxury: H.K. Feb. retail sales value -5.7% y/y; volume -6.1%

– NEV: China to restrict capacity expansion of gas-fuelled cars: Daily

– Solar: China solar exports slump 28% this year: industry group

– Air China (601111 CH): FY net income misses est.

– Alpha Group (002292 CH): FY net 498.4m yuan vs 489m yuan year ago

– Beijing Dabeinong (002385 CH): FY net 882.7m yuan vs 705.5m yuan year ago

– CCB (939 HK): Signs 20b yuan debt-to-equity pact with Shanxi companies: Daily

– China Eastern (670 HK): FY net 4.5b yuan; est. 5.46b yuan

– China Cinda (1359 HK): FY net 15.5bn Yuan; est. 15.5bn

– China Re (1508 HK): FY net income 5.15b yuan

– China Railway Const (1186 HK): FY Net 14b yuan; est. 14.1b yuan

– China Railway Group (390 HK): FY net 11.8b yuan vs 11.7b yuan year ago

– China Southern (1055 HK): FY net 5.04b yuan; est. 5.37b yuan

– China Vanke (2202 HK): S&P sees China Vanke to keep strong earnings growth in 2017

– Dr Peng Telecom (600804 CH): FY net 766.6m yuan vs 716.6m yuan year ago

– Fujian Sunner (002299 CH): FY net 678.7m yuan vs loss 387.8m yuan year ago

– Guangzhou Auto (2238 HK): 2016 net 6.29b yuan vs 4.23b yuan year ago

– Haige Communications (002465 CH): FY net 530.2m yuan vs 579.6m yuan year ago

– Hanergy TFP (566 HK): Posts profit; trade receivables HK$6.81b vs HK$3.7b year ago

– ICBC (601398 CH): 2016 net income 278.2b yuan; est. 275.3b yuan

– Kanion Pharma (600557 CH): FY net 373.7m yuan vs 362.3m yuan year ago

– Ko Yo Chemical (827 HK): FY revenue up 1% to 1.95b yuan

– Midea Group (000333 CH): FY net 14.7b yuan vs 12.7b yuan year ago

– PetroChina (857 HK): Posts record-low profit; Myanmar-China crude pipeline to start next month; domestic natgas output to reach 100bcm this year

– Shenzhen Airport (00089 CH): FY net 562.4m yuan vs 521.8m yuan year ago

– Sino-Ocean Group (3377 HK): FY net 3.81b yuan vs 2.38b yuan year earlier

– Spring Airlines (601021 CH): FY net 950.5m yuan vs 1.33b yuan year ago

– Tsingtao Brewery (600600 CH): FY Net 1.04b yuan vs 1.71b yuan year ago

– Wanda Cinema Line (002739 CH): FY net 1.37b yuan vs 1.19b yuan year ago

– Wuliangye (000858 CH): FY net 6.78b yuan; est. 7.1b yuan

– Wynn Macau (1128 HK): Board recommends HK$0.42 dividend

– Zoomlion (000157 CH): FY net loss 929.9m yuan vs 89.3m yuan profit year ago

Japan

Analyst ratings

– Cosmos Pharmaceutical (3349): Rated new buy at Mizuho

– Ryohin Keikaku (7453): Rated new overweight at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities

– Seria (2782): Rated new buy at Mizuho

– Takuma (6013): Raised to outperform from neutral at Tokai Tokyo

– Tokyo Gas (9531): Raised to overweight from neutral at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley

– Yamaha Corp. (7951): Rated new outperform at Daiwa

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– Chubu Electric Power (9502): Unit to build 50-megawatt biomass plant in Japan

– Fuji Oil (5017): To boost capacity of secondary units to meet government rules

– Hirose Electric (6806): Operating profit likely to rise 10% to 30b yen next fiscal year, Nikkei reports

– Japan Display (6740): Delays purchase of Joled to late December

– Katakura Industries (3001): Oasis’s Seth Fischer says Katakura AGM vote to reject Oasis proposals is “defeat for everyone”

– Kurita Water (6370): To retire 2.49% of shares on April 6

– Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (7003): To adopt holding company structure in April 2018

– Mitsubishi Heavy (7011), NTT Data (9613): Form info systems tie-up

– Morinaga & Co. (2201), Morinaga Milk Industry (2264): Decide against merger

– NGK Insulators (5333): To spend 29b yen to boost output at Poland plant

– Nippon Shinyaku (4516): Agrees on licence pact with Jazz Pharmaceuticals on Defitelio and Vyxeos

– Nippon Television (9404): Unit to acquire about 3.4m shares of All About (2454) from Yahoo Japan, Recruit

– Panasonic (6752): Plans to California-based unit to invest in start-ups

– Rizap Group (2928): To buy 5% stake in Dream Vision (3185)

– Shikoku Electric (9507): Hiroshima court rejects claim by local residents seeking the halt of co.’s Ikata No. 3 reactor

– Sumitomo Corp. (8053): Forms India JV with Mukand for alloy steel long products

– Sumitomo Seika Chemicals (4008): Prelim. full-year operating profit 10b yen vs co. forecast 9b yen; to book 1.1b yen charge on China operations

– Toshiba (6502): Silver Lake, Broadcom bid ~2t yen for chip ops, Nikkei says; Apple also among ~10 bidders, Yomiuri reports; Westinghouse set to obtain $800m bankruptcy financing

– Toyota Tsusho (8015): Wins 60b yen Iraq electrical substation order

– Yume No Machi Souzou Iinkai (2484): Prelim. 1H operating profit 372m yen vs co. forecast 260m yen

– Yume Technology (2458): To conduct 2-for-1 stock split on April 25

Australia

Analyst ratings

– Bank Of Queensland (BOQ): Raised to neutral from underweight at JPMorgan; PT A$11

– Western Areas (WSA): Upgraded to neutral from sell at UBS

Preview

– Armour Energy (AJQ): Uganda may grant oil PSA licenses by end April, Monitor reports

– Fairfax Media (FXJ): TPG said to have lined up debt to fund bid, AFR says

– Investa Office Fund (IOF): Reports issuance of A$150m, 7Y green bonds

– National Australia Bank (NAB): To invest A$300m in wealth management business, AFR reports

– Newcrest Mining (NCM): Australia’s top gold miner looks global in hunt for new mines

– Nextdc Ltd. (NXT): New buy at Canaccord; PT A$4.85

– OceanaGold (OGC): Unit says El Salvador no longer in strategy after ban

– Rio Tinto Group (RIO): Production suspended at Quebec iron and titanium plant after explosion

– Bank of New York Australia ADR Index up 0.4%

– BHP Billiton ADR little changed at A$24.15 equivalent, 0.3% premium to last Sydney close

– Rio Tinto ADR +0.5% to A$53.76 equivalent, a 11% discount to last Sydney close

– Companies trading above 20/50/200 DMAs, Bollinger upper band with RSI above 70: WES, ALL, AMC, TCL, CHC, TAH, CQR, ABP, BPT

– Companies trading below 20/50/200 DMAs, Bollinger lower band with RSI below 30: none among screened stocks

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