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WGC-Gold Demand Trends Full Year 2015

February 11, 2016--Gold demand in the fourth quarter increased 4% year-on-year to a 10-quarter high of 1,117.7t. Full year demand was virtually unchanged, down just a fraction (-14t) to 4,212t.

Weakness in the first half of the year was cancelled out by strength in the second half. Fourth quarter growth was driven by central banks (+33t) and investment (+25t), offset by a marginal contraction in jewellery (-6t) and continued declines in technology (-6t). Supply remained constrained: annual mine production increased by the slowest rate since 2008 (+1%) and recycling dropped to multi-year lows. Total supply declined 4% to 4,258t-the lowest since 2009.

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Source: WGC (World Gold Council)


Bitcoin's future threatened by software schism

February 11, 2106--A schism among software developers that threatens the future of bitcoin has broken into the open with Wednesday's release of a rival version of the technology behind the digital currency.

The current version of bitcoin, which is maintained by a fractious group of volunteer developers, is at risk of hitting a wall because of a limit on the number of transactions it can handle.

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Source: gata.org


IMF Working paper-Trends in Gender Equality and Women’s Advancement

February 10, 2016--I. Introduction
In the past several decades, the world moved closer to gender equality and saw the advancement of women across a wide range of economic, social, and political indicators, in all regions of the globe.

Nonetheless, throughout the world, women remain at a disadvantage to men in important areas of social, economic, and political life. The Millennium Development Goals explicitly called for gender equality. Its successor, the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015, sets targets for the international community over the next 15 years.1 Goal 5 of its 17 broad goals explicitly calls for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

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Source: IMF


ETF Securities sees inflows of over $1 billion into Commodity products since January 2016

February 10, 2016--ETF Securities, one of the world's leading, independent providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), has announced record YTD net inflows of over $1 billion since 1 January 2016.

Highlights include $720 million into gold linked ETPs (99% into physically backed ETPs) and over $320 million into oil linked ETPs. Yesterday, Tuesday 9 February, ETF Securities saw its highest ever one day net inflow, of $345 million into its gold linked ETPs.

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Source: ETF Securities


IMF Survey-When National Cycles Coincide: Tracking Global Recessions and Recoveries

February 9, 2016--2009 recession the most devastating since 1960, says multimedia book
Understanding global business cycles necessary to mitigate negative effects

Policies need to inspire confidence, not be a source of uncertainty

The world has experienced four global recessions since 1960. In a new multimedia book, two economists track what drives the global economy into and out of a recession.

"The bottom line is that a global recession hits everybody at the same time. That is why in the current fragile growth environment, it is especially critical for policymakers to understand where we are in the global cycle," says co-author Ayhan Kose in an interview with IMF Survey.

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Source: IMF


IMF Working paper-Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

February 9, 2016--Summary: This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework.

It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) than others. Recognizing the possibility of time lags between reform implementation and reform payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short-and medium-term.

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Source: IMF


IEA releases Oil Market Report for February

As signs of a demand slowdown surface, higher OPEC output only partly offsets non-OPEC decline
February 9, 2016--Having peaked, at a five-year high of 1.6 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2015, global oil demand growth is forecast to ease back considerably in 2016, to 1.2 mb/d, pulled down by notable slowdowns in Europe, China and the United States, the newly released IEA Oil Market Report (OMR) for February informs subscribers.

Early elements of the projected slowdown surfaced in the last quarter of 2015.

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Source: IEA


Investing in the Rise of the New Spending Class

February 9, 2016--It's no secret that the world has been a little down on China.

The world's most populous country has been the primary engine of economic growth for decades, but recently investor optimism around China has diminished significantly.

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Source: visualcapitalist.com


Composite Leading Indicators (CLI), OECD, February 2016

Mixed outlook across major emerging economies but stable growth momentum in the OECD area
February 8, 2016--Composite leading indicators (CLIs), designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity relative to trend, continue to signal a mixed outlook across major emerging economies and stable growth momentum in the OECD area.

The CLIs for Brazil and China confirm the tentative signs of stabilisation flagged in last months' assessment. In India, the CLI points to firming growth while aloss in growth momentum is anticipated in Russia. view more

Source: OECD


The World's Most Famous Case of Deflation (Part 1 of 2)

February 5, 2016--The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money.

The Great Depression was the most severe economic depression ever experienced by the Western world.

It was during this troubled time that the world's most famous case of deflation also happened. The resulting aftermath was so bad that economic policy since has been chiefly designed to prevent deflation at all costs.

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Source: visualcapitalist.com


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