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Updated on : 8:08 am GMT | Wednesday 11th of September 2016 11
 
Issued By Business & Finance Group | Dubai Media City | Issue No.305
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Emerging markets rush turning into secular move
Business & Finance Club - London : Investors caught in the middle of simmering global currency tensions are finding little option but to grab anything that is emerging markets as low rates and a falling dollar feed into a rush into high yielding assets.
Stocks up as Fed easing view grows
Business & Finance Club - New York : The dollar slid to a 15-year low against the yen and Asian stocks rose on Monday as U.S. jobs data boosted the chances of easier U.S. monetary policy and IMF and G7 meetings produced little to ease global currency tension.
Gold rises towards $1,350/oz as dollar languishes
Business & Finance Club - LONDON : Gold prices rose back toward $1,350 an ounce in Europe on Monday and silver touched a new 30-year high as expectations
Bangladesh issues stock alert
Business & Finance Club - Dhaka: Bangladesh's two stock exchanges yesterday issued a red alert, warning investors against a bubbling bourse, fearing these would burst soon unless urgent defusing measures were taken.
China makes big push to expand its yuan business in Hong Kong
Business & Finance Club - Beijing : When China began its reform process 30 years ago, no part of the polity, economy or society remained untouched — including Buddhist temples which were rebuilt on elaborate scales to allow a sliver of religious freedom.
Stocks up as Fed easing view grows

Business & Finance Club - New York : The dollar slid to a 15-year low against the yen and Asian stocks rose on Monday as U.S. jobs data boosted the chances of easier U.S. monetary policy and IMF and G7 meetings produced little to ease global currency tension.

Major European stocks opened slightly higher, mirroring gains in Asia and on Wall Street with the FTSEEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 rising 0.2 percent in early trade to 1,072.60.

Finance leaders meeting over the weekend in Washington produced no quick fix for global economic imbalances, suggesting the cheap money trade of selling dollars to buy emerging market assets and commodities looks set to continue for now.

That was further spurred by weaker-than-expected jobs data in the United States on Friday that raised the chances the Federal Reserve would inject fresh funds into the economy as soon as its November 2-3 meeting.

"At the end of the day we are going to have QE2 one way or the other and we are going to have currency rebalancing. The question is how to play this now," said Geoff Howie, sales and markets strategist at MF Global in Singapore, referring to a second round of quantitative easing.

One group that stands to benefit is commodities that stand to gain on the back of rapid growth in developing Asian economies as well as persistent dollar weakness.

Metals rallied with London copper hitting a fresh 27-month peak while Shanghai zinc futures rose 5 percent to its upside limit of 18.875 yuan a metric ton.

The dollar weakened broadly against a basket of currencies .DXY and against the yen fell as far as 81.37 yen, its lowest level in 15 years. It later recovered to 81.99.

Although Japan is closed for a national holiday on Monday, the dollar's slide put markets on alert for potential intervention by the Bank of Japan, especially since the G7 and the IMF didn't produce any overt criticism of Tokyo's yen selling.

But with the yen already trading above the levels at which the BOJ intervened last month and the dollar's persistent weakness, any impact from intervention may be short-lived.

"Corporate Japan is just going to have to wake up and deal with a yen at or around 80. No amount of intervention is going to make much difference," said Howie.

The MSCI Asia ex-Japan stock index .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.6 percent on expectations that a flood of investment funds into emerging markets would continue.

Hong Kong shares .HSI hit a more than 2-year peak, breaking out of a trading range that has held since November 2009 and leading a broad rally in Asian markets.
 

 
 

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