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Circular Economy Can Generate US$ 1 Trillion Annually by 2025
New report finds that a shift towards a circular economy can generate US$ 500 million in material cost savings, 100,000 new jobs and prevent 100 million tonnes of waste globally within five years
Project Mainstream initiative aims to accelerate cross-sector engagement towards a circular economy
January 24, 2014--Over US$1 trillion a year could be generated by 2025 for the global economy and 100,000 new jobs created within the next five years if companies focused on encouraging the build-up of "circular" supply chains to increase the rate of recycling, reuse and remanufacture.
This would maximize the value of materials when products approach the end of their use, according to a new report released today by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation at the Annual Meeting 2014 in Davos.
view the Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
Source: WEF
SPDR Weekly Report
January 24, 2014--ECONOMIES: Home sales rise in the US. The Bank of Canada leaves its policy rate unchanged but strikes a dovish tone. Unemployment
falls in the UK. Manufacturing conditions improve in the eurozone. The Bank of Japan leaves policy unchanged. GDP growth slows in China.
MARKETS: Risk appetites erode on mixed earnings and emerging market (EM) growth anxieties. Equities fall. Government bonds are bid. CAD continues its slide. EM currencies tumble. Oil and gold rise.
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SPOTLIGHT: The Fed will likely "taper" another $10 billion. GDP growth likely slowed in the US. GDP should rise solidly in the UK. Inflation likely remained uncomfortably low for the eurozone. Inflation in Japan continues to trend higher.
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
US
EXISTING HOME SALES rose 1.0% in December. However, this
followed substantial declines in each of the previous three
months. Consequently, the 4.87 million unit annual sales
pace posted for December remained well below the cycle high 5.39 million rate posted during the summer. Moreover,
December sales were actually down slightly from a year
earlier. Even so, for 2013 overall, home resales came it at a
seven-year high of 5.09 million. Meanwhile, the inventory of
existing structures on the market, available for sale, dropped
8.9% in December to 1.86 million, representing a lean
4.6 months of stock at the current sales pace.
Against the backdrop of relatively lean inventories, HOME PRICES continue to rise. The median sale price of an existing structure (not seasonally adjusted) was $198,000 in December, up 1.8% on the month and 9.9% from a year earlier to the highest median price for the month since 2007. Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency seasonally–adjusted national home price index edged up 0.1% in November, the 22nd consecutive gain, lifting prices 14.5% from the March 2011 cycle trough. In November, prices rose in five census divisions, fell in three, and were unchanged in one. However, they were up from a year earlier in all nine.
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ETF sales restrain gold in thin trade
Sales from the SPDR gold ETF restrained the gold price from its expected rise but little more as trade in gold bullion was thin, says Julian Phillips.
January 23, 2014--New York saw gold fall to $1,237 then took it down to $1,234 in thin trade in both markets.
Ahead of the opening in London it recovered to $1,238. The dollar traded at $1.3548: €1 then. London traded up from $1,238 until the Fixing, which was set at $1,244.25 up $4.75 on Wednesday. In the euro, it Fixed at €912.876 down €3.095 reflecting a weaker dollar which stood at $1.3632: €1.
Source: Mineweb
Markit Launches Global ETF Platform
January 23, 2014--Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that it has integrated its suite of ETF products into a new web application that delivers sophisticated capabilities required for navigating the increasingly complex and global ETF universe.
Mark Schaedel, managing director and global head of equity & index data services at Markit, said: "Until now, ETF investors looking for global exposure have had blind spots due to a lack of cost effective exposure to previously inaccessible asset classes. The integration of our analytics into the new ETF platform helps customers navigate this fragmented market that spans over 5,000 global ETFs, issued by more than 200 providers and which trade across 60 exchanges using a single view with a powerful analytics tool-set layered on top".P>view more
Source: wnd.com
IMF warns more work is needed to tackle big bank risk
January 22, 2014--Big banks still pose a threat to the world financial system because there is a general assumption that governments will come to their rescue in case of trouble, an International Monetary Fund executive said on Thursday.
"It is astonishing that officials in countries are still largely ill-equipped to deal with a Lehman Brothers-style bankruptcy, where assets and liabilities are scattered across multiple jurisdictions and entities," Jose Vinals, tasked with financial oversight at the IMF, said in a blog post.
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Source: IMF
IMF Working paper-Effectiveness of Capital Outflow Restrictions
Specifically, it examines whether a tightening of outflow restrictions helps reduce net capital outflows. We find that such tightening is effective if it is supported by strong macroeconomic fundamentals or good institutions, or if existing restrictions are already fairly comprehensive. When none of these three conditions is fulfilled, a tightening of restrictions fails to reduce net outflows as it provokes a sizeable decline in gross inflows, mainly driven by foreign investors.
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Source: IMF
DTCC Trends, Risks and Opportunities
In response, policymakers around the world have enacted new rules and legislation, such as the Dodd-Frank
Act (DFA) in the United States, European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Basel III regulations, with the primary
objective of increasing market stability and resiliency, enhancing transparency and reducing counterparty, operational and liquidity risk.
Source: DTCC
Euronext sees regulatory backing for spin-off in Feb
Euronext is due to be spun off in a 1 to 1.5 billion-euro ($1.4-$2.0 billion) listing after Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) merged with New York Stock Exchange parent NYSE Euronext in November.
Source: Reuters
Time for private banks to tap Gulf wealth?
A study by the GCC published towards the end of last year, plus publicity surrounding the upcoming World Expo 2020 to be held in Dubai, has concentrated attention on the region, specifically the provision of financial services to the wealthy.
Source: Asian Investor
ETFS Securities-Gold Shorts Shaken by Recent Strong Gold Price Performance
While short positioning in gold
futures remains near record levels, over the past two weeks shorts have moderated and
longs have increased, indicating investors’ confidence that gold is the "slam dunk” short that
some brokers have been touting may have been shaken by its recent strong performance.
Potential for largest mine strikes in South Africa lift platinum and palladium prices.
The platinum price rose 1.5% last week, bringing year-to-date gains to 6.6%, recovering
above its 200-dma for the first time since August 2013 as news of the potential for the
largest South Africa mine strikes since 2012 hit the headlines.
Source: ETF Securities
January 22, 2014-- Summary: This paper examines the effectiveness of capital outflow restrictions in a sample of 37 emerging market economies during the period 1995-2010, using a panel vector autoregression approach with interaction terms.
A Collateral Management White Paper January 2014
January 22, 2014--Collateral is viewed as both a solution to and a trigger of massive financial losses that occurred as a result of the financial crisis of 2008.
January 22, 2014--Pan-European financial market operator Euronext aims to get regulators' backing for its spin-off from NYSE Euronext this or next month, its CEO said on Wednesday.
January 22, 2014--Private banks need to establish a greater presence in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and place more staff there if they are to benefit from the region's wealth, writes Scorpio Partnership.
January 21, 2014--Gold shorts shaken by recent strong gold price performance
Despite the US dollar
appreciating on the back of positive economic data, the gold price gained for a second
consecutive week last week. The lower-than-expected payrolls numbers two Friday's ago
appears to have served as a reminder that gold may provide investors one of the better
hedges against the risk that the strong US economic recovery baked into most asset prices
may not be straight-line or may even prove to be wrong.
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