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Market Vectors ETFs to be renamed on 2 May 2016
April 21, 2016--Van Eck Global is uniting its businesses and investment offers under a single brand: "VanEck". In order to implement the rebranding for its Irish UCITS ETFs, the directors of Van Eck Global Investments Ltd. and Market Vectors UCITS ETF plc have approved the following changes with effect of 2 May 2016
Source: Van Eck Global
Leaders Set Landmark Global Goals for Pricing Carbon Pollution
Call for faster action on carbon pricing to deliver on Paris climate change agreement
April 21, 2016--Six heads of state and government, two city and state leaders and the heads of the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and the OECD today agreed on an ambitious global target for putting a price on carbon pollution.
The leaders, who are all members of the Carbon Pricing Panel, convened by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, challenged the world to expand carbon pricing to cover 25 percent of global emissions by 2020-double the current level-and to achieve 50 percent coverage within the next decade.
Source: World Bank
BRICS Single Capital Market Possible In 5 Years, Russian Central Bank Deputy Gov Says
April 20, 2016--The Creation of a single capital market of the BRICS grouping of emerging market nations-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-is possible in the next five years, Sergei Shvetsov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's central bank told Russia's TASS news agency during his visit to China.
"We understand that it is better to use...
Source: emergingequity.org
Infographic-This Market Cycle Diagram Explains the Best Time to Buy Stocks
April 19, 2016--Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains?
Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics claim that it's not possible, while traders and chartists swear by the idea.
That said, one thing that everyone can probably agree on is that markets are cyclical and that securities do have recurring chart patterns. view
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Infographic-This Market Cycle Diagram Explains the Best Time to Buy Stocks
April 19, 2016--Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains?
Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics claim that it's not possible, while traders and chartists swear by the idea.
That said, one thing that everyone can probably agree on is that markets are cyclical and that securities do have recurring chart patterns. They aren't predictable all of the time, but learning the fundamentals around market cycles can only help an investor in furthering their understanding of how things work.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
HSBC's London Gold Vault: Is This Gold's Secret Hiding Place?
April 19, 2016--HSBC's main gold vault in London regularly comes under the media spotlight for a number of reasons. These reasons include: a) the HSBC London vault stores a very large amount of gold on behalf of gold-backed Exchange Traded Funds, primarily the well-known SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) b) along with the Bank of England..
China's 'Bants' set to rival America's 'Fang' tech stocks
April 19, 2016--Fund managers quadruple holdings of Chinese internet quartet
Incisive Chinese companies have long been sinking their teeth into their western rivals. Now the country has developed its answer to the "Fangs" phenomenon, one of the remaining crown jewels of the west.
Source: FT.com
Eurex and Korea Exchange extend cooperation
Introduction of new index futures
April 18, 2016--Eurex, one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges and part of Deutsche Börse Group, and Korea Exchange (KRX) today signed a contract in KRX's Seoul Office to extend their cooperation by listing Mini KOSPI 200 index futures during Eurex trading hours.
Carbon Pricing: Building on the Momentum of the Paris Agreement
April 15, 2016--STORY HIGHLIGHTS
There is growing global momentum to put a price on carbon pollution. About 40 national and 23 subnational governments have put in place carbon pricing mechanisms, covering 12 percent of global emissions.
Nearly half of the national pledges submitted in the run-up to the Paris COP21 climate conference reference carbon pricing, and new approaches are being rolled out in China, France, Canada and other countries.
Source: World Bank
Revealed: the Digital Poverty Holding Back Global Growth and Development
April 15, 2016--The Global Information Technology Report 2015 finds a growing digital divide within and across countries, with the full economic and social benefits of the internet only available to a minority of the world's population
Many countries are failing to implement basic reforms that could increase productivity, boost economic growth and raise living standards
Singapore tops the world ranking of network-ready countries in 2015; the United States and Japan are the only other non-European countries in the top 10
