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Renminbi stalls on road to being a global currency
December 11, 2016--New capital controls lead to doubt, especially over hopes of forcing economic reform.
Back in October 2015, as then prime minister David Cameron welcomed President Xi Jinping to the UK, China's central bank issued one-year bills in London's offshore renminbi debt market.
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Source: FT.com
TAIFEX Listed New Contracts Tracking China's SZSE SME Price Index to the Exchange’s ETF Product Offerings
December 8, 2016--On 1 December 2016, The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) listed new futures and options contracts on one underlying ETF linked to China's stock market-the Capital SZSE SME Price Index ETF (TWSE code: 00643 (TWD)).
Expanding the coverage of the Exchange's offerings over China's major stock indices, the Capital SZSE SME Price Index ETF has become the latest addition to TAIFEX, joining the current ETF futures and options suite, which is now composed of 8 underlying ETFs linked to both domestic and offshore indices:
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Source: www.taifex.com.tw
IMF Working paper-The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan
December 8, 2016--Summary: Is Japan's aging and, more recently, declining population hampering growth and reflation efforts? Exploiting demographic and economic variation in prefectural data between 1990 and 2007, we find that aging of the working age population has had a significant negative impact on total factor productivity.
Moreover, prefectures that aged at a faster pace experienced lower overall inflation, while prefectures with higher population growth experienced higher inflation. The results give strong support to the notion that demographic headwinds can have a non-trivial impact on total factor productivity and deflationary pressures.
view the IMF Working paper-The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan
Source: IMF
Singapore Exchange hit by second disruption this year
December 8, 2016--Derivatives trading delay is latest in series of technical faults on SGX.
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Source: FT.com
CSOP debuts sector ETF tracking China's new economy
December 8, 2016-CSOP Asset Management (CSOP) has launched the CSOP S&P China Sectors ETF on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, offering investors access to the country's new growth sectors as China transitions from an investment-led to a consumption-led economy.
Underlying the ETF is the S&P New China Sectors Index, which includes Hong Kong-listed companies, US-listed American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and China A-shares.
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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk
China FX reserves drop $70bn as outflow acceleratesChina FX reserves drop $70bn as outflow accelerates
December 7, 2016--Largest decline since January as central bank seeks to bolster renminbi
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Source: FT.com
Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect strengthens city's 'super-connector' role, says Chief Executive CY Leung
December 5, 2016--HKEX chief executive Charles Li Xiaojia says new cross-border trading scheme marks another milestone for mutual market access
The new share trading link between Shenzhen and Hong Kong is being heralded as a milestone that will strengthen Hong Kong's role as a "super-connector" between China and the world-and the local bourses say there may be more connect schemes to come.
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Source: scmp.com
World Gold Council-China's jewellery market: new perspectives on consumer behaviour
December 1, 2016--China has gone through remarkable change in the past 30 years.
Within one generation, the shape of our economy has altered beyond all recognition: agriculture's share of output has fallen and the service sector has become an important driver of growth; millions of people have migrated from the countryside to big cities; and we have become richer, with income per capita increasing by almost 700% between 1995 and 2015.
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Source: World Gold Council
BNY expands trustee services in Korea
November 30, 2016--BNY Mellon has been granted full all asset trust license status in Korea to provide trustee services for the domestic market, expanding its international services to Korean clients.
The license complements BNY Mellon's existing money trust license, growing its trustee services capabilities from money receivables trusts to intangible property rights.
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Source: globalcustodian.com
China stock market unfazed by falling renminbi
November 30, 2016--Shanghai Composite has been rising since May, the opposite of what happened last year.
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Source: FT.com
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