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While you and I may never face multi-billion
global challenges like the leaders of GM (GM) Chrysler or the
Fed, we do face our own personal and professional challenges
from which we can learn and forge new leadership skills.
Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF
Global), a rational observer might think the NY
Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system
from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.
They are uniquely positioned to
feed and benefit
from global economic growth via their relative commodity advantages, yet at the same time they have massive domestic market expansion opportunities due to a surplus of under - utilized land or people.
The
Fed raised its key overnight lending rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but it has backed away
from further monetary policy tightening this year largely due to a
global economic slowdown and financial market volatility.
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A ruling against the United States might
feed an opinion already popular in the Trump administration that
global trade rules compromise American sovereignty, and provide a reason to potentially withdraw
from the organization.
According to new research on the role of the U.S. dollar
from Harvard, cited by
Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, the U.S. economy is fairly insulated
from foreign inflation / deflation pressures via exchange rates, implying that policymakers should be less worried about
global deflation pressures.
The problem is the
Fed has chosen to get their water
from the small 2 % inflation pond, which has been steadily shrinking over the last several decades (not
global warming, but instead dropping 10 year rates).
While there are some signs of recognition such as the
Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate
from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for
global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.
Their output
from these sessions will
feed directly into the next
Global Opportunity Report, to be launched in January 2017.
Following a January rally, the
global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in
global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (
Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside
from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.
As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the
global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the
Fed's balance sheet
from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.
Quantitative easing subsidizes U.S. capital flight, pushing up non-dollar currency exchange rates Quantitative easing may not have set out to disrupt the
global trade and financial system or start a round of currency speculation, but that is the result of the
Fed's decision in 2008 to keep unpayably high debts
from defaulting by re-inflating U.S. real estate and financial markets.
Joseph Stiglitz recently acknowledged that instead of helping the
global recovery, the «flood of liquidity»
from the
Fed and the European Central Bank is causing «chaos» in foreign exchange markets.
This scenario is one where financial market volatility is contained and U.S. growth is strong enough to support the
global outlook, but U.S. inflation remains subdued enough to keep the
Fed from a significantly more rapid rate normalization path.
Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away
from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the
Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of
global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.
In a late - October statement, the
Fed dropped prior references to the risks to US growth and inflation stemming
from skittish financial markets and a sluggish
global economy, and it singled out solid increases in the domestic US economy in areas such as spending and investment, along with further improvement in the housing market.
The message was driven home further by
Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who in a congressional hearing in early November asserted that the downside risks to the US economy
from global developments had diminished since September and that there has been a significant fall in labor market slack.
The volatility of recent weeks would seem to make it a less - than - auspicious time for the
Fed to consider raising interest rates, at least
from a
global perspective.
Though the recent correction has returned some value to markets, I expect volatility to remain elevated until either
global growth stabilizes and / or investors get some clarity
from the
Fed.
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As far as I am concerned, the word patience is irrelevant and it makes no sense whatsoever, why this one word
from the
Fed should have such an impact on
global financial markets.
From a
global policy perspective, we think the
Fed's recent hikes are the first stage in a cycle that will later this year see the European Central Bank (ECB) discuss a more normalized rate policy, and then lastly Japan's BoJ may at least expand its 10 - year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield target range.
The dollar came under heavy selling pressure against most major currencies in the wake of the
Fed's announcement, which triggered a round of complaints
from emerging markets worried about controlling inflation and maintaining their
global competitiveness.
A less accommodative
Fed removes one prop
from the bond market, but the reduction in purchases is dwarfed by the likely increase in
global savings, i.e. there are plenty of private sector buyers looking to hedge long - term liabilities.
Today the story is that it was easy money
from the
Fed that drove
global growth, EM or otherwise.
As
Fed policymakers weigh future moves, they may also be eyeing the more positive signals coming
from many other parts of the
global economy.
In addition,
Fed commentary alone had caused real
global capital to recede
from QE beneficiary risk assets such as emerging market equities, bonds and currencies as well as precious metals, commodities and developed economy fixed income vehicles.
The only conclusion we can draw
from this is that something has blown up in the
global financial system which caused unpredictable instability in — and loss of control over — the
Fed's manipulation mechanisms.
In the years since the
global financial crisis, the purpose of the
Fed's monetary actions, and of
global central - bank actions in general, was to bring down volatility in asset classes and more broadly in the economy, and we certainly received some benefits
from that.
There are many cross currents alive in the investment world as the LTRO is behind us, ISDA defaulted on its role as a referee on
global financial issues in the face of political threats
from the EUROCRATS, and the Bernanke
FED looks to be waiting for a new crisis to erupt before undertaking another further easing.
The data presented in this analysis comes
from Hopper's combined
feed of
Global Distribution System (GDS) data sources which includes 1 trillion flight price points per month.
Despite the «science is settled» and «consensus» claims of the
global - warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences
from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science as by computer models and adroit publicity
fed to a compliant media.
A recent study
from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately
feed the
global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.
A report
from the
Global Harvest Initiative states that the demand for food,
feed, fiber and fuel will likely outpace food production in 2050.
Mr Blackmore's neighbours had complained about dust and the smell of
feed and manure, as well as increased birdlife and cattle trucks
from the farm that has won
global acclaim for the high - quality beef it exports to 20 countries.
Cargill, one of the largest
global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat
from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on
feed, land and water.
Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to
feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited
from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton
Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.
Australia's advanced agricultural sector produces a healthy surplus — estimated to
feed around 60 million people annually.9 This export orientation means the sector benefits
from, but is also heavily reliant on, the performance of
global markets.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, December 30, 2015 / PRNewswire / — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a
global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived
from rice bran, today announced that the Company has entered into a 10 year Exclusive Supply and Cooperation Agreement covering the North American equine market with Kentucky Equine Research («KER»), an international equine nutrition, research, and consultation company serving horse owners and the
feed industry.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 5, 2016 / PRNewswire / — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a
global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived
from rice bran, announced today that it has entered into two agreements: a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with non-profit The Jack Brewer Foundation (JBF Worldwide) to develop rice bran based supplemental
feeding programs currently assisted by JBF Worldwide at orphanages in Malawi and Haiti; and a business development agreement with Brewer + Associates Consulting, LLC (B+A) to collaborate on the planned launch of a new line of sports nutrition products with a portion of profits earmarked to provide rice bran based meal supplements for
feeding programs covered by the MOU.
Food - security experts
from all over the world will converge on Belfast
from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to
feed a growing
global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a
global scale.
The
Global Strategy has not yet been fully implemented in the countries of the UK and the APPG will continue to explore the policy options, while hearing
from experts on how these will contribute to improving infant and young child
feeding practices, improving short and long - term health outcomes and reducing health inequalities.
The WHO Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent WHA Resolutions, the
Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child
Feeding and the Conventions on the Rights of the Child support the exclusion of those employed by breastmilk substitute manufacturers from providing infant feeding edu
Feeding and the Conventions on the Rights of the Child support the exclusion of those employed by breastmilk substitute manufacturers
from providing infant
feeding edu
feeding education.
This clarification was necessitated when our
Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding
from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns
from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child
feeding.
In consideration of
global public health recommendations, including WHA Resolution 63.23, the WHA Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child feeding and the global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young chi
global public health recommendations, including WHA Resolution 63.23, the WHA
Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child feeding and the global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young chi
Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child
feeding and the
global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young chi
global impact of exports
from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young children;
It's set out in the
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeding — you can find out how the UK is doing
from the World Breastfeeding Trends initiative.
The WBTi focuses on 10 key indicators
from the evidence - based strategies in the WHO
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeding and the Innocenti Declaration, which are described in the 2008 Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding in Europe: a blueprint for action and in Infant and Young Child
Feeding: Standard Recommendations for the European Union.
Launched in 2005 by International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative monitors 10 key breastfeeding policies and programmes, drawn
from the WHO's
Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child
Feeding and the Innocenti Declaration.