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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.

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Source: thejakartapost.com


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

Source: IMF


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.

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Source: business-standard.com


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.

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Source: chinadaily.com.cn


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.

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Source: unearthed.greenpeace.org


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.

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view the World Bank report-China economic update: investing in high-quality growth

Source: World Bank


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.

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Source: IMF


IMF Working Papers-Australia's Linkages with China: Prospects and Ramifications of China's Economic Transition

May 22, 2018--China and Australia have increasingly strong links, especially through trade. These are driven by demand from China for Australian commodities (coal and iron ore) and services (tourism and education). These links are influenced by China's transition to a services-driven, consumer-led economy.

Using ANZIMF, the Australia-New Zealand Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model, three risks (both upside and downside) to China during this transition process are considered, focusing on their spillovers to Australia. One simple takeaway is central to each risk-while the real GDP response to shocks in Australia typically is small, responses in demand components or sectors are usually much larger-along with three further takeaways, all of which help in the analysis of Australia in relation to any risk emanating from China.

view the IMF Working Papers-Australia's Linkages with China: Prospects and Ramifications of China's Economic Transition

Source: IMF


Hang Seng Indexes launches Big Bay Area Composite index

May 21, 2018--Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited ('Hang Seng Indexes') will launch the Hang Seng Stock Connect Big Bay Area Composite Index on 21 May 2018 (Monday).

The index aims to reflect the performance of companies that are listed in Hong Kong and/or mainland China and that mainly operate in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Big Bay Area ('Big Bay Area'). The Big Bay Area encompasses nine cities and two Special Administrative Regions ('SARs'), namely Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and Jiangmen.

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Source: Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited


International Focus: Looking at Last Month in the Korean Equity Market

May 18, 2018--Global stock markets finished up in April, but performances were mixed by region. Developed markets were bullish, namely the eurozone states Italy, France, UK, Germany and Spain.

Meanwhile, emerging economies such as Russia, Indonesia, China and Taiwan stock exchanges retreated on a bearish note.

Concerns about a US-China trade war, the spread of geopolitical risks involving the US, Syria and Russia, in addition to the pullbacks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, dubbed the FANG stocks, appear to have sapped the appetite for risk assets.

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Source: Korea Investment Management, portfolio manager of the AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF


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