India has witnessed enhanced foreign investment inflows and
trade flows in recent years.
The Canadian dollar accounts for only 2.2 per cent of total foreign currency
trade flow in a given day, according to the latest major trade volume report put out by the Bank for International Settlements, whereas the U.S. dollar comprises 45.1 per cent and the euro 19.4 per cent.
Not exact matches
In plain English, measuring the return of a fund without any
trading action over time, versus the return of a fund based on investor
flows into and out of a fund over time.
LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise
in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant
trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news
flow to keep those...
The booze
flowed, and the party spilled out onto the company's roof deck, where guests could smoke and take
in a view of Manhattan that stretches from the World
Trade Center to the Chrysler Building.
A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a
trade war with China
in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the
flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.
Kokou Agbo - Bloua, the global head of
flow strategy and solutions at Societe Generale, told CNBC Tuesday that there could be short - term
trading opportunities
in the mining sector, if investors get their timing right.
Other political money
flows through
trade associations
in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million
in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely
in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.
It suggests that even though
trade tensions between the two countries flared
in late March, US government debt still represents an attractive asset class for Chinese capital
flows.
In other words, 83 % of the vast wealth reaped from
trade with China
flowed to the top 10 % of U.S. households, and most of that
flowed to the top 1 %.
Exchange -
traded fund
flows to equity portfolios were more than $ 43 billion
in October, the highest level since the post-election euphoria of November 2016.
Like NAFTA before it, CETA is
in part intended to improve
trade flow by reducing traditional barriers like tariffs.
The integrated producers — companies that both produce and refine oil — are
trading at 6.4 times cash
flow, down from the eight times they were
trading at
in June.
May Day holidays
in many centres across Asia and Europe meant
trading was sparser than usual, though there was more than enough news
flow to keep those that were open occupied.
However,
in his opinion, this importance of China is overstated by standard
trade data,
in part because the
trade growth figures can not account for all the goods
flowing into and out of the country.
If Brexit - like sentiment
in other nations leads to restrictions on the
flow of
trade and labor, he adds, «that is going to create greater uncertainty and volatility» — at a time when some commentators believe that global stock and bond prices are overdue for a tumble.
Supporters insist the volume of
trades that HFT shops provide generates a steady
flow of awesome liquidity, giving Adam Smith's invisible hand a bionic upgrade by making it better, stronger and faster like Steve Austin
in the Six Million Dollar Man (look it up here, kids).
In addition, a shift toward protectionism in advanced economies could reduce global growth and trade, impede capital flows, and dampen market sentimen
In addition, a shift toward protectionism
in advanced economies could reduce global growth and trade, impede capital flows, and dampen market sentimen
in advanced economies could reduce global growth and
trade, impede capital
flows, and dampen market sentiment.
Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate
in all major metropolitans will have a
traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash
flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion
in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.
Daily insight on the hottest topics
in the global economy, central bank policymaking and international
trade flows, putting developments
in their perspective for a China - oriented audience.
Mexico happens to sit right smack
in the middle of the East - West
trade flow....
One reason to believe that the revival
in Europe might aid the U.S. recovery via
trade flows lies
in the fine print.
Impeding free
trade with Mexico would prevent US dollars from
flowing in, thus further impoverishing their poorest.
In an effort to promote a more open economy and accelerate reforms, China established pilot Free
Trade Zones (FTZs) that provide lower thresholds for setting up new companies, have fewer restrictions on capital
flows, and offer more market access to foreign investors.
More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication»
flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections
in illegal activities — drug
trade, human trafficking, and the like.
This is because policy makers assume that capital
flows simply respond to changes
in trade.
What will
trade and capital
flows look like
in the coming years?
Beyond the cyclical uncertainties affecting
trading volumes, there may also be structural factors at play, particularly an official rethink of the benefits of open capital accounts, and fast - money cross-border capital
flows in particular.
During the past thirty years especially, reserve accumulation and private capital
flows have overwhelmed
trade flows, to the extent that small changes
in gross capital
flows have often forced large changes
in trade and current
flows.
The results sent Facebook's shares up more than 7 percent
in aftermarket
trading on Wednesday, reflecting Wall Street's willingness to shrug off the company's privacy issues as long as the money keeps
flowing in.
Trade agreements have enabled much closer economic integration, and trade flows have burgeoned, leading to increases in productivity and living stand
Trade agreements have enabled much closer economic integration, and
trade flows have burgeoned, leading to increases in productivity and living stand
trade flows have burgeoned, leading to increases
in productivity and living standards.
Trade under CAFTA - DR supports Made -
in - America jobs and unlocks opportunities for well - paying work as goods
flow across borders and are manufactured into final products.
The Trump administration had been trying to pressure Europe, Canada, Mexico and other nations to renegotiate
trading terms
in America's favor, including limiting the
flow of foreign metals into the United States, saying that it would grant exclusions to the tariffs for countries that agreed to meet its demands.
What today we call economic globalization — a combination of rapid technological progress, large - scale capital
flows, and burgeoning international
trade — has happened many times before
in the last 200 years.
Despite the U.S. decline
in FDI, the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that investment
flows to North America reached an all - time high
in 2016.
In a world of GVCs, easing
trade restrictions can also have outsized, positive effects on the economy and on
trade flows.
«Liquidity,»
in fact, is THE watchword now
in bond
trading — ironic, considering that the U.S. central bank's primary intention has been to boost the
flow of cash through financial markets, drive a push toward riskier assets like stocks and corporate credit, and thus generate a wealth effect that would spread through the economy.
It's somewhat stunning that FB and GOOG
trade around a 5 % free cash
flow yield, which is roughly
in line with the broader market averages.
Liquefied natural gas
trade is set to see strong growth
in the next decade, with increased
flows from the US to Asia through the Panama Canal.
Increasing intraregional Asian
trade flows and the development of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will propel regional integration, but the region's ultimate success
in fostering connectivity will be highly dependent on its ability to finance and build regional infrastructure and negotiate and ratify more bilateral and multilateral free
trade agreements (FTAs).
Except for a period
in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma,
in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S.
trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing
in trade, even as U.S.
trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth
in international capital
flows, once consisting largely of
trade finance, exploded relative to
trade flows and relegated
trade finance to minor importance.
That's a measure that includes both
trade in goods and services, plus investment
flows and other financial measures.
I published this piece
in today's WaPo arguing that based on recent global dynamics — very low interest rates, strengthening dollar, capital
flows, larger US
trade deficit — the Fed must be very careful about raising rates.
In light of what you said about the need to look beyond bilateral
trade flows, how would you reply to such arguments?
As the country's oil - dominated
trade flows have tied the value of the Loonie to triple - digit world oil prices, the resulting strength of the currency has turned into a curse for exporters
in general and Ontario's factories
in particular.
But they exclude the underlying changes
in gross
flows and their contributions to existing stocks, including all the transactions involving only
trade in financial assets, which make up the bulk of cross-border financial activity.
Such a momentous matter as the terms of
trade in which capital
flows between China and the rest of the world might seem more naturally to belong to democratic or governmental institutions.
Both the Canada-U.S. free -
trade agreement and the subsequent North American free -
trade agreement (NAFTA) have been critical for Canadian businesses trying to compete
in global markets, because they allow a freer
flow of goods across borders.
Because we have spent a lot of time working through the global implications of changes
in trade and capital
flows in any one part of the world, my students were quick to get the implications, and they pounced on the visiting economists (always politely, of course).
Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument
in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable
trade and capital
flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.