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China April official factory activity expands but at slower pace
May 1, 2016--Activity in China's manufacturing sector expanded for the second month in a row in April but only marginally, an official survey showed on Sunday, raising doubts about the sustainability of a recent pick-up in the world's second-largest economy.
The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was 50.1 in April, easing from March's 50.2 and barely above the 50-point mark that separates expansion in activity from contraction.
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Source: Reuters
China launches yuan gold fix to boost power in global bullion market
April 19, 2016--Benchmark price to be set twice daily
Bullion industry long dominated by London
China top producer, importer, consumer of gold
Top gold consumer China launched a yuan-denominated gold benchmark on Tuesday, in an ambitious move to exert more control over pricing of the metal and influence in the global bullion market.view more China's economic growth slowed in the first quarter to 6.7 percent, largely in line with expectations, but its slowest pace since the global financial crisis view more ETFs/ETPs listed in the Asia Pacific ex Japan gathered a record level of 7 billion US dollars in net new assets in Q1 2016, according to ETFGI view more
Amundi launches first Hang Seng Hong Kong 35 ETF China To Invest Nearly $1 Trillion In 2016 On Infrastructure, High-Tech Research And Development view more BetaShares Weekly Newsletter-Market Insights: Don't be conned by 'good' US earnings results view more South Asia Remains World's Fastest Growing Region, but Should Be Vigilant to Fading Tailwinds view the South Asia Economic Focus, Spring 2016: Fading Tailwinds report China's robot army set to surge view more
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Source: Reuters
April 15, 2016--China's economic growth slowed in the first quarter to 6.7 percent, largely in line with expectations, but its slowest pace since the global financial crisis.
Data reported Friday showed that the annualized growth rate for the world's second-largest economy ticked lower from the previous quarter's 6.8 percent.
Source: usnews.com
April 14, 2016--ETFs/ETPs listed in the Asia Pacific ex Japan region gathered a record level of US$7.09 billion in net new assets in Q1 2016.
The Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) ETF/ETP region had 824 ETFs/ETPs, with 965 listings, assets of US$121 Bn, from 114 providers listed in 18 exchanges in 14 countries at the end of Q1, according to preliminary data from ETFGI's March 2016 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.
Source: ETFGI
April 13, 2016--French exchange-traded fund provider Amundi has launched its first Hong Kong-domiciled ETF in Asia. The Amundi Hang Seng HK 35 Index ETF is also the first ETF to track the Hang Seng HK 35 Index.
Compiled by Hang Seng Indices, the Hang Seng HK 35 Index tracks 35 large cap, liquid Hong Kong companies which derive the majority of their revenue outside of China’s mainland market. Individual companies in the index are capped at 10%.
April 13, 2016--Beijing is set to invest over 6 trillion yuan ($926.6 billion) this year in the country's high-tech research and development, as well as infrastructure development, including railway, fixed assets, water conservancy projects, local media reported on Thursday.
The aim is to help develop sectors such as transportation, environment protection, urban planning, and tourism.
Source: emergingequity.org
April 12, 2016--This week marked the start of the United States March quarter earnings reporting season. As is usually the case, both analysts and companies have "aired their dirty laundry" early, with particularly large downgrades to expected earnings well ahead of time.
As a result, it's quite likely that the actual reporting results may once again be "better than expected", which could provide some relief to Wall Street. That said, the challenging earnings outlook for the US market-and hence for global equities in general-has not changed.
Source: BetaShares
April 10, 2016--Economic growth expected to gradually accelerate to 7.3 percent in 2017 from 7.1 percent in 2016
Led by robust growth in India, South Asia shows resilience in the face of turbulent international markets and remains the fastest-growing region in the world, with economic growth forecasted to gradually accelerate from 7.1 percent in 2016 to 7.3 percent in 2017, a World Bank report said.
According to the twice-a-year South Asia Economic Focus, the region's economic performance prospects remain strong due to its limited exposure to global turbulence, coupled with increasing investment activity.
Source: World Bank
April 8, 2016--China's uptake of industrial robots is set to rise rapidly in the coming years as higher labour costs and the heightened aspirations of workers push manufacturers to embrace automation.
The development may add to fears that workers in poorer countries are most in danger of being displaced by automation, with analysis by Citi and the Oxford Martin School, a research and policy unit of the UK university, published earlier this year suggesting that more than 75 per cent of jobs in China are at a "high risk" of computerisation.
Source: FT.com
April 6, 2017--A record number of Australian investors are currently using exchange traded funds (ETFs) according to the BetaShares/Investment Trends ETF Report released today.
The BetaShares/Investment Trends ETF Report is the leading quantitative research study of Australian ETF users, based on responses of 9,418 investors and 676 financial advisers. The Report contains insights about the size and growth of the ETF industry in the 12 months to October 2015, including insight into the investment behaviour of retail investors, SMSFs and financial planners.
Source: BetaShares
