Sentences with phrase «of emerging currencies»

Another very real concern is the impact that a Trump presidency will have upon the market of emerging currencies.

Not exact matches

MSCI's emerging market share index fell 0.4 percent with Russian dollar - denominated stocks chalking up some of the biggest losses and currencies and bonds staying firmly under pressure too.

The strong dollar was felt widely across commodity markets and the emerging economies that are now borrowing record amounts of debt in the U.S. currency — $ 3.7 trillion according to the latest figures this week from the Bank for International Settlements.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

Higher U.S. yields can put pressure on the currencies of emerging market countries that run current account deficits such as Indonesia and India, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior global markets analyst for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.

Some currencies of emerging - market countries rose against the dollar.

The upshot of this is that while bitcoin still clearly dominates the digital currency world, other assets — particularly Ethereum — may now be emerging as more than also - rans.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- The strong dollar and mixed economic data kept the pressure on emerging stocks on Wednesday but currencies bounced back from steep losses as markets waited to hear from the U.S. Federal Reserve on the future path of interest rates.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

Now, more than ever before, currencies are emerging as the everyday investor's weapon of choice in the battle to gain an edge.

Now, emerging markets have flexible - exchange rates, much less foreign debt, and substantially larger reserves of foreign currency.

Malaysia's economy and currency are suffering from «an almost perfect storm» due to an outflow of funds from emerging markets, low oil prices and China's slowdown, the country's economic planning minister said on Tuesday.

«New power,» which emerged out of our increased connectivity, new tools and technology, is more like a current, while «old power» is more like a currency, Heimans and Timms explain: «The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.»

In the latest week they reduced the value of their short dollar position against a range of developed and emerging currencies by $ 4.38 billion to $ 23.81 billion.

Our emerging markets unit includes the sales and trading of global sovereign debt, non-US corporate debt and local currency debt.

The dollar's rally since Trump's surprise win in Tuesday's vote is causing turmoil in emerging markets, prompting Malaysia's central bank to say it may act at times of extreme volatility, while India and Indonesia were said to have supported their currencies on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. regulators may ask Congress to pass legislation to improve oversight of virtual currencies like bitcoin amid concerns about the risks posed by the emerging asset class, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday.

The era of cheap or zero - interest money that led to a wall of liquidity chasing high yields and assets — equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities — in emerging markets is drawing to a close.

The lira, one of the worst - performing emerging market currencies this year, weakened to a record low of 4.2487 against the dollar, from Wednesday's close of 4.1785.

Foreign investments involve greater risks than U.S. investments, including political and economic risks and the risk of currency fluctuations, all of which may be magnified in emerging markets.

A handful of digital currency funds have emerged over the past year, including Polychain Capital, which has raised about $ 15 million from venture capitalists and investors the last few months.

Since 2009, when Bitcoin became the first decentralized digital currency and numerous altcoins started to emerge, the market cap term has also come into common use to describe the total dollar market value and available supply of the total amount of digital currency in circulation.

After the success story of Bitcoin, many other peer - to - peer digital currencies have emerged in an attempt to imitate that success.

The most obvious impact on emerging market fixed income and currencies may be felt in countries with direct trade or financial linkages with the UK, although we also expect the rest of EM to be affected via higher global risk - aversion.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

See, for example, Kofanova S, A Walker and E Hatzvi (2015), «US Dollar Debt of Emerging Market Firms», RBA Bulletin, December, pp 59 — 69 and Windsor C (2016), «Currency Risk at Emerging Market Firms», RBA Bulletin, June, pp 49 — 57.

[9] Nonetheless, for emerging Asian economies there has tended to be a positive association between increased foreign holdings of local currency government debt and growth in onshore FX derivatives turnover.

One of the biggest questions in the foreign - exchange market — whether the US currency's bout of strength has legs or will fade as sellers emerge at key technical levels — could be resolved in the coming days.

Issuers may be located in any geography, but holdings must be either denominated in one of the G10 currencies, or issued outside of the home market of the issue currency — effectively excluding local - currency emerging - market bonds.

«The Chinese government is set to announce a revision of its currency policy in the coming days that will allow greater variation in the value of its currency, combined with a small but immediate jump in its value against the dollar, people with knowledge of the consensus emerging in Beijing said Thursday.»

New risks continue to emerge in the virtual currency and blockchain spaces and legislation of this space is either inexistent or was not intended to capture it when it was drafted.

International investments, particularly investments in emerging markets, may carry risks associated with potentially less stable economies or governments (such as the risk of seizure by a foreign government, the imposition of currency or other restrictions, or high levels of inflation or deflation), and may be or become illiquid.

Headaches in Africa show that its reliance on emerging markets comes with a snakebite of currency, macroeconomic and geopolitical hazards.

By working with a greater number of exchanges across different countries to list XRP, we can better serve the growing demand for global payments in both major currency corridors and emerging markets.

Timothy Ash, head of emerging markets research at Standard Bank, said the Russian rate rise reminded him of Turkey, which delivered a massive hike in interest rates in January to defend its currency.

A legend has emerged from a jumble of facts: Someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto released the software for Bitcoin in early 2009 and communicated with the nascent currency's users via email — but never by phone or in person.

Having the flexibility to invest globally in any country or currency, including emerging markets, allows the investment team to take advantage of prevailing macroeconomic trends, opportunities in interest rates, currencies and sovereign credit to create a competitive advantage.

Since then, hundreds of other Internet currencies have emerged to provide numerous options of paying for goods and services across the world in a way that is both safe and anonymous.

It's true — and there are plenty of opportunities to trade a Euro currency ETF, emerging markets ETF, or other fund for virtually every major currency and currency group in the world.

For portfolio investors in emerging - market currencies, bonds and securities — the scale of which dwarfs FDI and private - equity inputs — the quality of a country's financial institutions and the depth and liquidity of its markets are most important.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

by Silvio Cascione, Sumanta Dey and Vuyani Ndaba (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar is likely to set new records against emerging market currencies this year, although its climb may be slower than in 2015 and possibly hampered by more frequent bouts of volatility, a Reuters poll suggested.

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

Continuing into the early afternoon, the panel moved through several tangential topics, all of which seemed to be laying a foundational understanding for how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might emerge relative to other possibilities, including government - issued cryptocurrencies, e-money, and digital fiat currency (DFC).

Emerging market currencies have been hit by a sell - off in the first week of trading this year after weak economic data in China rekindled worries over global growth and halted trading on Chinese equity markets on two days.

Therefore, other emerging markets, instead of China, will be affected most from Soros» shorting and speculative attack on currencies.

The brewer maintained its full - year profit margin guidance but warned of «continued adverse economic conditions» in emerging markets, Africa in particular, as well as «increasing currency headwinds.»

Equity prices in both advanced and emerging market economies fell sharply, as did a number of emerging market currencies.

-- We take profit on our overweight GBPCHF position, and close our emerging market currency basket trade, while keeping some of these investments in the portfolio.