Opinion Review of the chinese economy at the end of the summer of 2019
The monthly data published at the start of the second quarter are fairly mixed and show no tangible signs of growth momentum improving in China. The GDP published for the second quarter has recently confirmed this sentiment. The slowdown at work since the start of the decade (...)
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Opinion Total Return Futures set for further growth as buy-side adoption increases
Eurex launched Total Return Futures (TRFs) in 2016 in response to growing demand for listed alternatives to total return swaps. Since then, the product has evolved into an instrument used by a wide variety of firms for multiple purposes, enabling firms to lock in financing (...)
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Opinion Hard time for sterling
According to Luc Luyet and Frederik Ducrozet, Asset Allocation & Macro Research, Pictet Wealth Management, the sharp drop of the sterling on Friday 7 October at the start of trading in Asia with the currency declining 6% in the course of twenty minutes was the climax of (...)
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Opinion What’s hot: Suspension of EU ETS unlikely
Sharply rising energy prices are pressuring politicians to react. Last week the European Commission called for an overhaul of the electricity market following price increases in excess of 20% in a single day in France. The European Commission is talking tough but is offering (...)
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Opinion Taking the Silk Road
The year of the goat, which has just begun, looks likely to herald a major push by China to establish a new “Silk Road”, the adoption of a new five-year plan to boost the country’s social and economic development and a pick-up in the pace of financial reform, according to Ross (...)
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Opinion Despite fears about the Bitcoin ’bubble’ bursting, the price of the new digital coins is going through the roof
According to Daniele Bianchi, of Warwick Business School, is Assistant Professor of Finance and he researches crypto-currencies incluing Bitcoin, despite fears about the Bitcoin ’bubble’ bursting, the price of the new digital coins is going through the (...)
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Opinion How Brexit will impact the UK economy?
According to Daniele Bianchi, of Warwick Business School, is an Assistant Professor of Finance and researches financial econometrics, asset pricing and commodity markets, on the whole, the negative impact of Brexit on exchanges rates, on the political landscape, and on (...)
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Opinion How Could They?
According to William H. Gross, markets are reaching the point of low return and diminishing liquidity. Investors may want to begin to take some chips off the table: raise asset quality, reduce duration, and prepare for at least a halt of asset appreciation engineered upon a (...)
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Opinion Shedding some light on scandal hitting the US mortgage market
Much has been said and written about ‘Foreclosure-gate’ – a scandal hitting the US mortgage market. While some of the information accurately assesses the topic, much of what has been written has been naïve, uninformed or just plain (...)
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Opinion Agricultural markets: « We will never tackle volatility »
According to Michel Portier, CEO of Agritel, market information is often widely known but the weather market is the main factor of influence on agricultural markets...
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Opinion Japan : local or global effect?
According to Franck Nicolas, Head of Global Asset Allocation & ALM at Natixis AM, all the effects of this catastrophe are, at present, difficult to quantify but do not necessarily compromise global growth
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Opinion Complex and useless finance is still there
While complex finance should be preferred to improve risk modeling, it continues, in times of market stress, to help designing unmanageable and useless complex structured products
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Opinion The Euro will survive In fine !
We do not believe or at least most of the implosion scenarios of the euro zone regardless of the terms. -Not because we would be trying to find one or several sustainable solutions to the crisis of sovereign debt, but because such a process would cost too much to everybody (...)
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Opinion Slowing China growth to prompt further stimulus
According to Craig Botham, Economist, Emerging Markets at Schroders, China’s economy expanded 7.3% in the final quarter of last year, beating expectations and recording a 7.4% expansion for the year as a whole, but failing to meet the government’s 7.5% (...)
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Opinion Brexit: the European equities view
Three of Henderson’s European equities fund managers give their views on the implications of the UK potentially leaving the European Union. The Henderson European equities team share resource and ideas but are free to implement their views within their individual portfolios (...)
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