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Global Financial Stability Report October 2017
October 3, 2017--Chapter Two : Household Debt and Financial Stability
Chapter 2 examines the short-and medium-term implications for economic growth and financial stability of the past decades' rise in household debt. The chapter documents large differences in household debt-to-GDP ratios across countries but a common increasing trajectory that was moderated but not reversed by the global financial crisis.
Among advanced economies, the median household debt-to-GDP ratio rose to 63 percent in 2016 from 52 percent in 2008. Among emerging economies, it increased to 21 percent from 15 percent over the same period. The chapter finds a trade-off between a short-term boost to growth from higher household debt and a medium-term risk to macroeconomic and financial stability that may result in lower growth, consumption, and employment and a greater risk of banking crises.
Source: IMF
ETF Securities Weekly Flows Analysis-Industrial metal ETP inflows resume
October 2, 2017--Industrial metal ETPs saw their first inflows in four weeks.
Robotic ETPs saw highest inflows since March 2017.
Outflows from oil ETPs continued as early-week price gains fail to hold.
Industrial metal ETPs saw their first inflows in four weeks. As industrial metal positioning started to look stretched in August, we saw outflows begin and that continued as prices fell. However, last week as prices of most metals started to show signs of reaching a trough, inflows resumed. Speculative positioning in the futures market have pared back and volumes of trading in Shanghai have fallen indicating momentum trades are being shaken out. We saw US$5.0mn into long copper and US$4.4 into long nickel ETPs.
Source: etfsecurities.com
Ultumus-Bring out your dead...
October 2, 2017--It's a well-noticed fact that the "ETF graveyard" is erecting more tombstones by the week. But today is unusual. Today more ETFs have been delisted than any other day this year...
There does not seem to be a common theme. Bringing out their dead, issuers have delisted the iShares Finland Gov't Bond ETF; Lyxor's MSCI Taiwan ETF; db-x Australian Dollar ETF; Samsung's Kodex Consumer Discretionary ETF-to name but four. The delistings are from all segments and from all over the world.....
USA
Multi-asset ETF from VanEck
VanEck has listed a new multi-asset "ETF of ETFs" that adjusts its allocations between the S&P 500 and Treasury bills based on market signals....
Germany
db-x trackers to list two dividend ETFs
db-x trackers is listing two new dividend ETFs on Xetra at some point this month. ...
Source: ULTUMUS-Financial Data Management
IMF-Understanding Debt: A Better Tool for Low-Income Countries
October 2, 2017--Here are some basics about the debt sustainability analysis the IMF and the World Bank plan to undertake.
Why is the issue of debt and its sustainability particularly pertinent for low-income economies?
Low-income countries have grown significantly over the last decade, but they still have considerable and crucial investment needs, which will need to be financed through borrowing from the rest of the world. The World Bank estimated that the infrastructure needs in Africa would be over $90 billion per year over the next decade, out of which only $45 billion is currently being met.
view the Review of the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries: Proposed Reforms
Source: IMF
IMF Working paper-Uncertainty, Financial Frictions and Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation
September 29, 2017--Summary:
Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity (macro uncertainty) and to the dispersion of entrepreneurs' idiosyncratic productivity (micro uncertainty) in a financial accelerator DSGE model with sticky prices.
It explores the different mechanisms through which uncertainty shocks are propagated and amplified. The time series properties of macro and micro uncertainty are estimated using U.S. aggregate and firm-level data, respectively. While surprise increases in micro uncertainty have a larger impact on output than macro uncertainty, these account for a small (non-trivial) share of output volatility.
Source: IMF
IMF Working paper-FX Intervention in the New Keynesian Model
September 29, 2017--Summary:
We develop an open economy New Keynesian Model with foreign exchange intervention in the presence of a financial accelerator mechanism. We obtain closed-form solutions for the optimal interest rate policy and FX intervention under discretionary policy, in the face of shocks to risk appetite in international capital markets.
The solution shows that FX intervention can help reduce the volatility of the economy and mitigate the welfare losses associated with such shocks. We also show that, when the financial accelerator is strong, the risk of multiple equilibria (self-fulfilling currency and inflation movements) is high. We determine the conditions under which indeterminacy can occur and highlight how the use of FX intervention reinforces the central bank's credibility and limits the risk of multiple equilibria.
view the IMF Working paper-FX Intervention in the New Keynesian Model
Source: IMF
FTSE Russell delays inclusion of China A-shares in index
September 29, 2017--FTSE Russell said domestic Chinese equities would remain on the stock index provider's "watch list" for possible inclusion in its emerging markets index, citing "high level of stock suspensions".
FTSE Russell, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, in 2016 also refused to include China's A shares in its index, stating it had continuing concerns over market interventions.
Source: Reuters
FTSE Russell announces results of FTSE annual country classification review
September 29, 2017--Poland to be promoted to Developed from Advanced Emerging
Kuwait to be classified as Secondary Emerging
Saudi Arabia will soon meet promotion criteria. Index users and market practitioners readiness now to be assessed; inclusion indexes to be
launched in October
China A-Shares remain on Watch List for possible inclusion as Secondary Emerging
FTSE Russell provides progress update on other current Watch List countries
Source: ftserussell.com
DECPG Global Weekly-September 29, 2017
September 29, 2017--TAKING STOCK
U.S. Q2 GDP growth was revised up; core PCE inflation slowed in August
Euro Area inflation remained stable in September; economic confidence is on the rise
apan core CPI inflation picked up in August; manufacturing PMI improved in September
Brent crude oil prices hit a two-year high
Nigeria kept interest rates unchanged
U.S. Q2 GDP growth was revised up; core PCE inflation slowed in August. The final reading of U.S. Q2 GDP growth came in at 3.1 percent (q/q sa)-the fastest pace of expansion since Q1 2015 (Figure 1). This figure was above market expectations and the previous estimate of 3.0 percent, mainly reflecting a stronger-than-previously estimated increase in private inventory investment. Separately, the U.S. core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 1.3 percent (y/y) in August, its slowest pace of increase since October 2015 and below the 1.4 percent rise recorded in July
Source: World Bank
Economic Freedom of the World: 2017 Annual Report
September 28, 2017--The Economic Freedom of the World: 2017 Annual Report is the world's premier measurement of economic freedom, ranking countries based on five areas: size of government, legal structure and security of property rights, access to sound money, freedom to trade internationally, and regulation of credit, labour and business.
This year's report compares 159 countries and territories. In this year's ranking, which is based on 2015 data, Hong Kong is again number one, Canada dropped to 11th from the 5th spot last year and is tied with the United States.
view the Economic Freedom of the World 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
Source: Fraser Institute
