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Making New Silk Road 'Smart' Can Boost Region's GDP by 4%-7%, Says Study
January 17, 2017--Significant investments in technology would enable collaboration and spur economic growth in countries along the New Silk Road, including China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Europe
Addressing "physical" pain points such as lack of speed, cost inefficiency, inconsistency of border procedures and poor visibility of goods would benefit SMEs most
Small and medium-sized enterprises along the routes of the "One Belt' One Road" initiative-often referred to as the New Silk Road-can boost the GDP of their countries by 4% to 7% as a result of increased market access, a new World Economic Forum study finds.
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
Report: Blockchain Could Become an $8 Billion Global Industry By 2024
January 16, 2017--The next eight years could see the blockchain marketplace grow to almost $8bn in value, according to a new research report.
The report, prepared by Grand View Research, points to a combination of industry investments, enterprise interest in blockchain solutions and growing use of digital currencies among consumers as the lead driver of expected growth.
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Source: coindesk.com
Eurasia Group Top Risks 2017: The Geopolitical Recession
IT'S BEEN SIX YEARS since we first wrote about the coming G-Zero world-a world with no global leader. The underlying shifts in the geopolitical environment have been clear: a US with less interest in assuming leadership responsibilities, US allies, particularly in Europe, that are weaker and looking to hedge bets on US intentions; and two frenemies, Russia and China, seeking to assert themselves as (limited) alternatives to the US-Russia primarily on the security front in its extended backyard, and China primarily on the economic front regionally, and, increasingly, globally.
view the Eurasia Group Top Risks 2017: The Geopolitical Recession
Source: Eurasia Group
World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update-A Shifting Global Economic Landscape
However, there is a wide dispersion of possible outcomes around the projections, given uncertainty surrounding the policy stance of the incoming U.S. administration and its global ramifications. The assumptions underpinning the forecast should be more specific by the time of the April 2017 World Economic Outlook, as more clarity emerges on U.S. policies and their implications for the global economy. view the World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update-A Shifting Global Economic Landscape
view infographic-A Shifting Global Economic Landscape
Source: IMF
Industry Rallies Behind Plan to Recycle 70% of Plastic Packaging Globally
Report proposes solutions to address the likelihood of potentially more plastics than fish (by weight) in the ocean by 2050 Over 40 industry leaders from the global plastics value chain have rallied behind a new plan to tackle plastics waste, which could increase recycling from just 14% today, to over 70% of total plastic packaging. The plan is presented in The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing Action, a report by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
view the World Economic Forum The New Plastics Economy
Catalysing action
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
ETF Securities Weekly Flows Analysis-Commodity rally drives a mixture of profit-taking and position building
First inflows into crude oil ETPs since November 2016 as investors
encouraged by Saudi Arabia adhering to quota. There were US$44.2bn of
inflows into long crude oil ETPs last week as oil prices regained losses earlier in the
week.
Source: etfsecurities.com
Deutsche AM celebrates 10 years of growth and innovation in ETFs
The first db X-trackers ETF, the db x-trackers MSCI World Index UCITS ETF,
which now has over Euros 2.5 billion in assets1, listed on the Deutsche Börse in January 2007 and marked the start of a 10-year period that saw the db Xtrackers business become one of the world's largest and most established ETF
providers.
Source: Deutsche Asset Management
WEF-Weak and Unequal Recovery: Five-Year Average Decline in Living Standards in Advanced Countries Highlights Need for New Growth Model
New approach to structural reform proposed to raise growth and reduce inequality at same time.
Alternative measure of national economic performance based on inclusive development rather than GDP introduced. 109 countries ranked. view the World Economic Forum The Inclusive Growth
and Development Report 2017
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
BlackRock ETP Landscape ETP Landscape: A record year for flows
Fixed income flows set a new annual record of $115.0bn, driven by new highs for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. TIPS and emerging markets debt funds
U.S. equity flows rallied in the second half of 2016 led by large caps with $82.3bn and boosted by new annual flow records in small cap and dividend funds
Broad emerging markets equities gathered $26.7bn in 2016, breaking a three-year streak of outflows, lifted by a leveling in commodities prices and a more stable U.S. dollar in the period before the U.S. presidential election
Source: BlackRock-ETP Research
Investors fight back on aggressive covenant terms
Borrowers scrapped language in new bond offerings that would have spared them from paying a make-whole premium in the event of a default (from a simple covenant breach to actual bankruptcy).
Source: Reuters
January 16, 2017--Welcome to the geopolitical recession
This is Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks that are most likely to play out over the course of the year. This year's report was published on 3 January, 2017.
January 16, 2017--After a lackluster outturn in 2016, economic activity is projected to pick up pace in 2017 and 2018, especially in emerging market and developing economies.
January 16, 2017--Over 40 industry leaders endorse a global action plan on plastic packaging production, use and after-use
The plan, laid out in a new report, The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing Action launched by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation today, would see global recycling rates for plastic packaging grow from just 14% currently to 70%
January 16, 2017--Crude oil, industrial metal and gold ETPs see inflows as the price rally draws in investors.
Palladium ETPs see profit taking after a very strong rally.
Inflows into short European equity ETPs the highest since July 2016.
January 16, 2017--Deutsche Asset Management's (Deutsche AM's) db X-trackers ETF business is
preparing for a further decade of growth and innovation following the 10-year anniversary of the listing of its first ETFs.
January 16, 2017--World Economic Forum report proposes new economic growth framework to widen social inclusion.
Finds annual median per capita income declined across all advanced countries by average rate of 2.4% over the past five years, and growth per capita averaged less than 1%.
ETP Landscape December 2016
January 16, 2017--INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS
Global ETPs set a new flows record in 2016, posting another year of double digit organic growth.
Global ETP flows of $379.5bn represented 13% organic growth and exceeded last year's record of $350.7bn, fueled by record flows for fixed income, a second-half surge in U.S. equities and renewed appetite for broad emerging markets equities
January 13, 2017--Investors dug in their heels this week on three investment-grade bond deals that tried to include more issuer-friendly terms, signaling that-for now at least-enough is enough.
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