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SGX deepens presence in Greater China
March 9, 2015--Singapore Exchange (SGX) today opened its new Hong Kong office, which is registered as Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX-DT).
Mr. Chew Sutat, Executive Vice President of SGX, hosted the office opening and reiterated SGX’s continued focus and commitment to its operations in Greater China.
Japan's Emergence From Recession Weaker Than First Thought
March 8, 2015--Japan's emergence from recession was weaker than first estimated as companies unexpectedly cut investment and drew down their inventories, offsetting a pickup in consumer spending.
Gross domestic product expanded an annualized 1.5 percent in the three months through December from the previous quarter, less than a preliminary 2.2 percent, revised government data show.
TSE ETF/ETN Monthly Report for Feb 2015
March 6, 2015--Oil ETFs and ETNs Surge Ahead
In February 2015, trading in the ETF/ETN market continued near record highs, with monthly trading value of approximately JPY 3.6 trillion and daily average trading value of about JPY 189 billion.
NEXT NOTES Nikkei-TOCOM Leveraged Crude Oil ETN (2038) grew in trading value and climbed from 15th to 8th overall. Other ETFs and ETNs tracking oil sector indices also saw significant gains.
Trading in NEXT FUNDS TOPIX-17 BANKS ETF (1631) and other ETFs tracking the banking sector also saw significant gains.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: 2 New ETFs To Be Listed On Mar. 25, 2015(Wed.) -Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management- "SMAM NIKKEI225 ETF" & "SMAM REIT Index ETF"
March 6, 2015--Today, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) approved the listing of two new ETFs managed by "Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company, Limited".
These ETFs will be listed on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
China to trial Shenzhen-HK Stock Connect
March 5, 2015--China will link its stock exchange in the southern Chinese city Shenzhen with Hong Kong "at an appropriate time" this year, according to the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.
The official confirmation of the project came less than four months after China kicked off its landmark Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect in November, allowing investors at the two bourses to trade stocks listed on the other in a bid to spur reform of China's stock market and realign it to international norms.
BetaShares Global Market Review: February 2015
March 5, 2015--Lower interest rates and better-than-feared resource sector earnings results helped push Australian equities up strongly last month. Indeed, Australian equities was the strongest
performing asset class in February, rising in price terms by 6.1%.
International equities, listed property and even commodities also fared well in February, in what was another good month for risk assets generally. Defensive cash and fixed income,
by contrast, produced only muted returns. The $A was broadly flat over the month.
Over the past year, the strongest performing asset class is now international equities, followed by listed property. The worst performing asset class remains commodities.
Humans Lose Out as Robots Take Tokyo Stock Exchange
March 4, 2015--Yuji Honkawa knew the humans were losing by April 2010, when no matter how fast he sent orders to be filled at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a machine beat him.
Unemployed now after 20 years dealing equities at seven different brokerages, the 47-year-old Honkawa watched as the market sped up and automated traders went from generating 10 percent of orders at the start of 2010 to as much as 72 percent last year
China Sets 2015 GDP Target At "About 7%', Announces Raft Of Proposals To Support Economy
March 4, 2015--China has lowered its economic growth forecast to "about 7 percent" in 2015 at the opening of its annual meeting of parliament, the National People's Congress-the nation's biggest yearly political event-which started on Thursday and generally lasts about 10 days.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday that China will set its official 2015 economic growth target, or gross domestic product (GDP), at "about 7 percent", China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
China's GDP target of 7 percent for 2015 is the lowest growth target in over 15 years, according to Bloomberg.
IMF Malaysia: Selected Issues Paper
March 3, 2015--A. Introduction-
1. Introduction
This paper examines the implications of lower crude
oil prices on Malaysia's economy. Although Malaysia's net oil exports are
now very small as a share of GDP (0.1 percent in 2013), its gas exports are sizeable (over 6 percent
of GDP with gas export prices are linked to crude oil prices through long term contracts.
The net effect on the macroeconomy of the decline in oil prices is not clear-cut a priori: Malaysia has an
important hydrocarbons exploration, extraction, and processing sector but its economy has diversified, with manufacturing and services no
w accounting for more than 80 percent of output.
view the IMF Malaysia: Selected Issues Paper
BetaShares Weekly-ETF Liquidity, will it be there when I need it?...
March 3, 2015--One of the many benefits of ETFs for investors is their tradability. Unlike traditional funds, ETFs can be bought and sold at any time through the Australian Securities Exchange just like an ordinary share.
But since ETFs trade like shares, investors may mistakenly attempt to evaluate their liquidity in the same way they might for shares. This gives rise to one of the most common misunderstandings about ETFs, namely, that an ETF’s 'on-screen' volume equates to ETF liquidity. For most ETFs, nothing could be further from the truth
