Sentences with phrase «of currency sector»

But Bitcoin in itself is not a ponzi scheme, it is just a technological advancement in the field of currency sector.

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But there's one sector that still runs on plastic currency notes instead of plastic cards: renting.

Bitcoin trader Digital CC has claimed a profitable entry into the computer - generated currency sector, highlighting a $ 630,146 profit for three and a half months of business, despite the vehicle through which it conducted a backdoor listing recording an $ 11.8 million loss for the financial year.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

«They want to see the technology develop,» Rogoff said, adding that the private sector has historically «invented everything» in the history of currency, from standardized coinage to paper currency.

According to the ETF Classification System of Index Universe (www.indexuniverse.com), there are currently 29 China - related ETFs available on the US market - broad equity market, large - cap, small - cap, sectors, fixed - income, currency, leveraged, and inverse ETFs.

The renminbi was up despite mounting fears that China might have embarked on a devaluation track of its currency to help stabilize the local export sector, along with alleviate deflationary pressure and incentivize inbound tourism.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

Our alpha transmission process centers on making key decisions across all four of our alpha pods — duration, sector allocation, yield curve and currency.

CARACAS, May 3 (Reuters)- Venezuela said on Thursday it arrested 11 top executives of the country's leading private bank Banesco for allegedly hurting the OPEC nation's ailing currency, the latest move against the private sector that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro blames for a deep...

«If you have, say, a different kind of large - cap growth strategy — maybe a sector rotation or a currency strategy — that's more opportunistic, there's a place for that,» he says.

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

You make the classic argument that the benefits of a booming tradable sector such as oil and gas must, ipso facto, outweigh the decline in other sectors — otherwise they wouldn't be generating enough demand to result in an increase in the country's currency.

One issue is that although many of the big institutions are curious about how bitcoin's underlying blockchain technology could revolutionize the financial sector, bitcoin isn't widely accepted as currency and has no intrinsic value.

Lending to oil and natural gas producers poses a bigger threat to U.S. banks than most other industrial sectors, said Bill Haas, deputy comptroller for midsize bank supervision at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates 1,620 national banks and thrifts.

As evidenced by the image below, interest in momentum research has taken off since the original 1993 Jegadeesh and Titman paper: Source: «Two Centuries of Multi-Asset Momentum (Equities, Bonds, Currencies, Commodities, Sectors and Stocks)»

In contrast, the banking sector had a net foreign currency liability position before taking into account the use of derivatives for hedging purposes and a net foreign currency asset position of close to zero after accounting for the use of hedging derivatives.

Overall, the government sector is reported to have hedged about 70 per cent of its foreign currency asset exposure using derivatives.

The Crypto Company describes itself as «one of the first publicly traded technology companies in the digital currencies and blockchain sector, offers a portfolio of digital assets, technologies, and consulting services to the blockchain and cryptocurrency markets.»

The sector held foreign currency assets equivalent to about 4 per cent of GDP, with the majority of these likely to reflect investments by the Australian Government's Future Fund.

The general government sector — which consists of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to around 3 per cent of GDP as at the end of March 2013, before taking into account the use of derivatives for hedging purposes (Table 2).

Diversification can notably be achieved thanks to the differences between both universes notably in terms of currency or sector exposure.

While the BOJ has no imminent intention to debut an official digital currency, the bank is reportedly supporting a private sector project to develop J - Coin, a cryptocurrency that aims to wean Japan off of physical cash and which would be pegged in value to the yen.

A closer look at the decomposition of nominal non-energy exports shows that the sectors that have performed reasonably well are driven by a weaker currency while those tied more to the level of foreign demand have struggled to gain traction.

1) Lower economic strength in light of the diminished medium - term growth outlook, constrained by foreign currency shortages, high inflation, lower public sector spending and a weak banking system.

His responsibilities include working closely with the Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income and the global fixed income portfolio teams to develop BlackRock's strategic and tactical views on sector allocation within fixed income, currencies and commodities.

This can offer investors multiple layers of diversification, including geographical, currency, and sector, thus reducing the chances that the performance of a single stock or instability in a single country can negatively impact the performance of the entire portfolio.

Virtual currency, an industry that is less than 10 years old, is a dynamic sector with a lot of technological change taking place.

They are designed to track the performance of sectors, commodities, bonds, currencies, indices and measures of volatility.

Payments and the representation of fiat currency on Blockchains is a potentially significant use case for distributed ledger technology and we firmly believe that partnership between regulators, central banks and the financial services sector will accelerate solutions to maturity.»

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

The fact that the domestic private sector also had some foreign loan assets (as taken into account in net debt measures) would be of little assistance in such a currency crisis.

Conversely, inflationary pressures in the tradable sector will be generated by any depreciation of the exchange rate, although it can take some time for currency movements to be reflected fully in the prices of imported consumer goods and services (Chung, Kohler and Lewis 2011).

Despite the difficulties endured during the era of post-Lehman austerity, commercial and private - sector debt levels are low: Nonperforming loans are below 5 % and the banking system, unlike those of Poland or Hungary, did not have to tackle the fallout from high levels of foreign currency loans, because low interest rates and a stable Czech koruna meant these weren't taken up in large quantities.

Despite the high levels of volatility in the sector, many investors that currently hold crypto - currencies are looking to increase their exposure.

The sooner the public and private sectors understand the potential of this new technology, the better prepared they will be to mitigate its challenges and realize the benefits of Bitcoin and other similar virtual currencies.

As long as Canada remains weak because of low oil prices, a weakened currency and a general slowdown of the world economy, we'll continue to see opportunities in the beaten down Canadian banking sector.

While the magnitude of this fall partly reflects the appreciation of the currency, it also reflects ongoing price declines associated with global overproduction and high productivity growth continuing in this sector.

Despite having negative opinions on digital currencies, Harker sees «tremendous potential» in the use of distributed ledger technology for risk management in the US banking sector, mainly because of its ability to authenticate transactions:

The Accounting Standards Board of Japan will create a framework to determine how the accounting sector can address digital currency.

With the weakening of the lira against the dollar, the private sector will have a harder time repaying its foreign currency - denominated debt, S&P said, adding this would negatively impact government debt — 40 percent of which is denominated in foreign currency.

Over time, their portfolios are a set of randomly selected stocks, crypto currency, sector - specific bets and what not.

In addition to the «huge liabilities» springing from the economy's reliance on the financial services sector, Mr Clegg said Britain is not protected by being part of a reserve currency.

The governor named a close lieutenant, Ben Lawsky, to be an omnibus regulator, but he has won attention not for racking up scalps in the New York - based financial sector but by grabbing billions through sanctions on foreign banks, and leading the discussion about policy adjustments demanded by the rise of digital currencies like BitCoin.

He said apart from these social intervention programmes, the NPP administration also transformed the economy «by improving on our currency, the strength of our cedi, the banking system and the private sector making sure that the environment was good for businesses to flourish.»

The promise of currency - hedging is especially alluring in the case of US stocks because investors would like the good (quality US companies in dynamic sectors not available in the Canadian market) without the bad (everyone «knows» the US dollar is going down the toilet).

Given the explosion of high - quality ETFs in the marketplace, sector - rotation strategies can be implemented to alter US equity sectors, country exposure, fixed income sector and rate sensitivities, and commodity and currency exposures.

As any investor is well aware, keeping up with global politics, macro-economics, regional currency fluctuations plus the vagaries of sectors and individual stocks can amount to almost a full - time job.

Mr. Kohli specializes in global rates and currencies and oversees the Portfolio Construction group, which draws on the expertise of sector specialist teams.