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China Revives Its Push to Make the Yuan Go Global
June 5, 2018--Yuan strength, rising foreign reserves give officials room
China's currency accounts for just 1.7% of global payments
After more than two years on the back-burner, there are signs that China is once again focusing on its efforts to increase the yuan's status in global finance.
Since May, initiatives from the central bank and government have included:
Starting full operation of a new phase of an international payment system, extending its running hours
ETFGI reports ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan gathered net inflows of 5.29 billion US dollars during April 2018, the highest amount in two years
June 5, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) gathered US$5.29 Bn in net inflows during April 2018, the highest monthly amount in two years. Year-to-date net inflows for 2018 reached US$13.91 Bn at the end of April, compared to US$6.23 Bn in net outflows at this point last year. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
Highlights
Net new assets gathered by ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan were $5.29 Bn in April
April 2018 marked the 6th consecutive month of net inflows into ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan
Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in in Asia Pacific ex-Japan increased by 1.58%, or $2.83 Bn, during April, to $182.16 Bn
BetaShares launches Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (ASX: CRED)
June 4, 2018--BetaShares is pleased to announce the launch of the BetaShares Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (ASX: CRED), a low cost, intelligent core portfolio building block for Fixed Income.
CRED is designed to provide investors exposure to a portfolio of investment grade, fixed-rate Australian corporate bonds, which, at the time of writing, is offering investors the highest income levels available from all Australian Corporate Bond ETFs trading on the ASX*.
Cryptocurrencies decided as future trading commodity
June 4, 2018--The Trade Ministry's Futures Exchange Supervisory Board (Bappebti) has decided cryptocurrencies would be future trading subjects or commodities at the bourse, even though Bank Indonesia (BI) does not recognize such currencies as payment instruments.
"The Bappebti head has signed a decree to make cryptocurrency a commodity that could be traded at the bourse," said head of Bappebti market supervision and development bureau Dharma Yoga as reported by kontan.co.id on Sunday.
IMF Staff Country Reports-Thailand: Selected Issues
June 4, 2018--THAILAND: FISCAL POLICY AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH1
A semi-structural model is used to simulate the impact of fiscal structural reforms on economic growth, inflation, current account balance, and public finances. Simulation results indicate that
structural reforms enabling higher infrastructure investment, stronger labor participation, and more efficient taxation can raise growth significantly and contribute to addressing domestic and external imbalances.
A. Introduction
1. Thailand's cyclical and structural challenges have contributed to its high current account surplus and are expected to impact growth in the short and long term. During 2013-15, growth slowed down significantly. While the export and tourism sectors have since
regained strength, other sectors of the economy have yet to take part in this renewed dynamism. Consumption and investment have remained sluggish, partly due to high household debt and a slow trickle down of growth to household income. This has resulted in a high current account
surplus. At the same time, rapid population aging will soon become a drag on potential growth, as it has an impact on the size of the work force and productivity growth.view more
GDP grows 7.7% in Q4; India retains world's fastest growing economy tag At 7.7%, it is a seven-quarter high; full-year growth falls to 6.7%
June 1, 2018--Backed by government spending and investment, the economy grew at a seven-quarter high of 7.7 per cent in January-March. But this did not prevent GDP growth, at 6.7 per cent in 2017-18, from falling to its lowest rate in four years of the Narendra Modi government.
The fourth-quarter growth rate prompted the finance ministry to say the economy would clock 7.5 per cent growth in 2018-19, the upper range of growth projected by the Economic Survey.
MSCI nod gives foreign investors chance to share China's market dividends
June 1, 2018--With the inclusion of China A-shares on a key global index, a step has been made for more foreign investors to increase exposure to China's capital market and share its growth dividends.
Global index compiler MSCI included 226 China large-cap A shares on its MSCI Emerging Markets Index at the close of trading Thursday.
Dramatic surge in China carbon emissions signals climate danger
May 31, 2018--With China's CO2 pollution on the rise, is it time to panic?
China's carbon emissions growth has accelerated since the beginning of the year, leading to warnings that the country could be headed for its largest annual increase in climate pollution since 2011.
Led by increased demand for coal, oil and gas, China's CO2 emissions for the first three months of 2018 were 4% higher than they were for the same period in 2017, according to an Unearthed analysis of new government figures.
Analysts have suggested the country's carbon emissions could rise this year by 5%- the largest annual increase in seven years, back when the airpocalypse was at its peak.
World Bank-China Economic Update -May 2018
May 31, 2018--Key messages
Economic activity in China remains resilient, with GDP growing by 6.9 percent in 2017 and 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2018.
While consumption continues to drive growth, investment growth has rebounded from the lows in 2017, particularly in the private sector.
However, the long-term trend is slower investment growth accompanying slower economic growth, as an important part of China's "new normal" is the process of rebalancing away from investment toward consumption.
Even with the slowdown, investment is still high by international standards, so China’s main challenge is not to raise the growth rate of investment, but to ensure that it goes to sectors and firms that are more productive.
view the World Bank report-China economic update: investing in high-quality growth
IMF Staff Completes 2018 Article IV Mission to China
May 29, 2018--China's economic growth accelerated in 2017 and is expected to weaken only slightly in 2018 to 6.6 percent and moderate gradually to about 5½ percent by 2023.
Staff welcome the authorities' strategy to more decisively shift the policy focus from high-speed to high-quality growth. This will increase the benefits of growth for the Chinese people, as well make growth more sustainable.
Achieving this goal would be greatly helped by accelerating reforms in many areas, including de-emphasizing growth target, further reining in credit growth, boosting consumption, allowing market forces a more decisive role, deepening opening up and modernizing policy frameworks.
