Weather concerns prevent stronger fall of agricultural prices
Oct 26, 2015 11:30 am UTC| Commentary
A firmer U.S. dollar put pressure on agriculturals at the end of last week, though concerns about the weather prevented any more major price falls. It is for example too dry in the winter wheat growing areas in the US...
Gold hardly profit from strong increase of speculative net long positions
Oct 26, 2015 11:07 am UTC| Commentary
Gold reacted only briefly to the Chinese rate cut on Friday. An increase in price to $1,180 per troy ounce was followed by a $20 fall, driving gold to a ten-day low. Gold is trading only slightly above $1,160 per troy...
IEA director warns of tightening supply on oil market
Oct 26, 2015 11:03 am UTC| Commentary
Brent is continuing to trade at around $48 per barrel. Apart from a brief surge at the beginning of this month, it has not moved far from this level in either direction over the past eight weeks. Things are unlikely to be...
ECB's policy measures likely in Q1 16
Oct 26, 2015 10:37 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The ECB lending survey showed further improvement in lending standards and demand in the next three months for companies. This bodes well for further acceleration in lending flows, which have only just turned in positive...
China's energy efficiency and greener growth
Oct 26, 2015 10:02 am UTC| Commentary
Despite intensive efforts to reduce energy usage, Chinas economy remains highly energy intensive, even compared with other upper middle-income economies.Overall, President Xis call for an energy revolution in June 2014 and...
China's SOE reforms to increase efficiency and competitiveness
Oct 26, 2015 09:57 am UTC| Commentary
Chinas reform of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector is likely to gain further momentum during 2016-2020, with swifter action at the local government level. A long-awaited SOE reform blueprint was announced in...
China's social reforms to improve safety net and promote inclusive growth
Oct 26, 2015 09:53 am UTC| Commentary
Despite steady improvements during the 12FYP, Chinas social spending as a percentage of GDP is still relatively low compared with OECD members and even with other BRICs.During the 13FYP, we expect the government to...
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