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Foreigners Boost China Bond Holdings by Most in Two Years

August 1, 2016--Increase comes amid efforts to boost access to local markets
More inflows seen as investors start trading, StanChart says

Overseas investors increased their holdings of Chinese onshore bonds by the most in more than two years in June after regulators eased restrictions on foreigners accessing the interbank market.

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Source:Bloomberg


IMF-Japan : Selected Issues

August 1, 2016--EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Staff's analytical work since around the launch of Abenomics has focused on how to reflate the economy and achieve fiscal sustainability.

It covered the areas of potential growth, labor market duality's implications for wage-price dynamics and productivity, drivers of private investment, the effectiveness of and limits to quantitative easing, aging and deflationary pressures, government revenue and expenditure priorities to restore public debt sustainability, financial sector reforms to rekindle risk-taking, and spillover effects of Japan's new policy framework (Summary of staff research since 2010).

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Source: IMF


IMF Executive Board Concludes 2016 Article IV Consultation with Singapore

July 29, 2016-Singapore's economy continues to perform well despite being impacted by a combination of cyclical and structural factors, originating both at home and abroad.

Growth moderated from 3.3 percent in 2014 to 2 percent in 2015, and it was 2.2 percent in the first half of 2016. Unemployment has remained low, but net employment generation slowed rapidly in 2015 and headline inflation has stayed below zero since late 2014.

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Source: IMF


BOJ Opts for Limited Stimulus Expansion, Plans Policy Review

July 28, 2016--Board expands ETFs; no change to bond purchases, negative rate
Kuroda calls for comprehensive assessment of the BOJ's policy

The Bank of Japan kept its key monetary tools unchanged, and will mount a comprehensive review of its policy framework due to "considerable uncertainty" about the outlook for inflation, which has consistently underperformed the central bank's forecasts. The yen jumped.

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Source: Bloomberg


Taiwan Stock Exchange unveils two smart beta equity indices

July 28, 2016--Taiwan Index Plus (TIP), a subsidiary of the Taiwan Stock Exchange, has rolled out two new smart beta indices focusing on locally-listed dividend-paying equities.

The launches pave the way for the development of investment products such as exchange-traded funds to cover the space.

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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk


These 3 Animated Charts Capture the Economic Rise of Asia

July 28, 2016--The economic rise of Asia has been swift, but it has also been a little reckless at times.

China's rapid spending and investment has come at a price. The country is now saddled with a massive debt bomb that could detonate at any moment. Further, economic interests have helped to create a precarious situation in the South China Sea, which many experts see as having escalating potential for armed conflict. Such actions would disrupt trade along one of the most important sea routes in the world.

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Source: visualcapitalist.com


BetaShares Weekly Newsletter-$A could be heading for new test of US70c

July 27, 2016--The Australian dollar have proven stubbornly resilient in recent months, raising doubts about my year-end call that it would fall to US65c.

That said, a number of forces appear to be now conspiring to push the little Aussie battler lower in the months ahead.

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Source: BetaShares


HK and Singapore exchange battle escalates

July 28, 2016--Regional rivals look to derivatives in contest for supremacy

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Source: FT.com


TOCOM's Physical Market for Gold Launched Today

July 25, 2016--The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) announced today that the launch of a new physical market for gold, "Gold Physical Transaction".

The number of executed transactions for the first trading day was 14.

TOCOM is the only regulated exchange that operates a gold market in Japan and gold is the most actively traded commodity at the Exchange.

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Source: Tokyo Commodity Exchange


China Capital flight eases in first half of year

July 22, 2016--China's capital flight pressure has eased in the first half of this year, as statistics released on Thursday by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange indicate.

According to the data, China's net foreign exchange purchase accumulated to $173.8 billion in the first half of 2016. But its capital outflow significantly slowed down in the April-June period.

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Source: chinadaily.com.cn


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