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Crude oil trading for the afternoon today (19 / 
was recorded continuously decreased since the morning. Investors seem increasingly positive expectations put on crude demand as speculation China and the U.S. economic downturn put forward by Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc.
Morgan Stanley predicts that China’s economy in the third quarter will decline by 0.2% to 9.1%. While at the same time Deutsche Bank predicts that the European economy will also negatively affected.
Crude oil futures declined by 2 dollars to 80.38 dollars per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent crude declined by 0.6% to 106.37 dollars per barrel.
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Gold prices shot higher after the France-German meeting failed to convince investors that the euro zone debt crisis will be solved.
gold prices rose one percent, the difference is only 1.6 percent below the record highs reached USD1.813 gold in the last week. While today, Wednesday (08/17/2011), price of gold in the spot market in the parking lot USD1.785, 44 per ounce. Furthermore, the price of gold in USD gold GCcv1 rose 0.2 percent to USD1.788, 60.
Earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced it will integrate the euro zone. It is also stressed also the euro zone rescue efforts continue, and the discourse of the euro bond does not seem to be running.
Adding to investor anxiety, the eurozone economy slowed sharply in the second quarter, hobbled by sluggish growth in Germany and the stagnation in France. The world’s largest gold bourse, SPDR Gold Trust rose 0.2 percent from the previous day to 1262.899 tons on August 16.
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Asia, including China and India, will be vulnerable if the United States and Europe slipped into another recession. Concerns were conveyed by the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.
In his annual policy speech, Lee warned, the world may be sinking into recession because the debt crisis in Europe and the U.S. economic woes resulting downgrade by Standard & Poor’s.
market volatility “is only a reflection of the real issues” that reduce investor confidence in U.S. and European governments whether they can “make the hard decisions and to solve the problem of deep and very serious.”
The U.S. government judged Lee spent too much and the fiscal deficit “unsustainable”. He added that the deep divisions between Republicans and Democrats have made the country more difficult to solve the problem.
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Four EU countries namely France, Italy, Spain, and Belgium banned short-selling in the shares of banks and other financial companies. The policy was made because of sharp gains and losses the bank’s shares last few days.
Head of the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), Jean-Pierre Jouyet, said France had decided to ban short-selling 11 types of stocks for two weeks, including the three largest French bank Societe Generale ie, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole.
The decision was taken after the French stock market regulator said that the French stock market plummeted since Wednesday (10/08/2011), because of unfounded rumors about the potential loss of debt rating “AAA” France.
In addition, the stock market turmoil also occurred after news emerged that the French banking giant Societe Generale is affected by the instability and problems of financial stability though later denied. Short-selling is the act of investors who profit by betting the stock or bond price declines.
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Asian stock markets opened higher on Friday associated investors step back to global stock piled in a single trading day.
In Japan, the Nikkei stock index rose back above the crucial 9,000, closing some major losses in a row this week, after the stock market global equities rebound supported by a slight decline in U.S. jobless claims.
Nikkei stock index opens up 0.35% or about 31.23 to 9013.17 on Friday, while the Topix rose 1% to 778.78.
Seoul Stock Exchange opened higher, related to retail investors who stormed the steps following the increase in Wall Street stocks.
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 0.39% or about 7.02 to 1824.46. Read the rest of this entry »
Bank of Korea said that if there is no short-term impacts as a result fall in U.S. debt rating by S & P from AAA to AA +.
An AA rating from AAA has no difference when it comes to the risk weighting of assets owned by the investor in accordance with the guidelines of Basel III and hence there will be no major immediate impact in the short term.
South Korea has a major investor in U.S. Treasuries.
As known, the agency rating the United States (U.S.) Standad and Poor downgraded the debt the U.S. for the first time since 1917 that initially AAA to AA +.
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Although shares in the United States (U.S.) rose after experiencing the worst phase for two years, the trade Friday, August 5 local time yesterday, but investors in the U.S. market is not too respond to the increase this time.
increase in stocks is because Italy announced plans to accelerate financial reforms. In addition, data express the number of U.S. employment is also higher than expected positive response by some employers.
For information, movements in U.S. stocks suffered losses after the Fed Rueters reported that the Italian press for reforms in return for steps to buy state bonds. Italy will accelerate the austerity measures and seek a balanced budget in 2013 or later or a year sooner than planned.
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Atma Jaya University economists Prasetyantoko A judge, there are still risks that need to be anticipated if this global sentiment continues to deteriorate.
If at the beginning of this week’s Jakarta Composite Index did not crawl up, the picture seems clear that foreign investors are starting to be very careful. JCI previously could touch the level of 4000 is estimated to be difficult to repeat.
Indonesia needs to think about what instruments could be used if the capital markets shaken by the instrument does not exist, the potential for sudden reversal is quite open. The reason is, if the conditions in the United States continued to deteriorate and attract investors throughout the capital, including those invested in developing countries, there will be a reversal of capital flows on a large scale.
To anticipate the government has had to buy back the instrument. Besides, who needs to be anticipated is the rupiah exchange rate is allowed to erode and weaken in the event of sudden reversal.
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Wall Street re-record the worst day in 8 months. Weak financial reports, economic data are not good and upheaval of the U.S. debt that would not go any settlement made ??stocks weakened.
The debate on the question of rising U.S. debt limit before the August 2 deadline for the attention of investors. But the negative sentiment is still coupled by disappointment with the financial statements of industrial and technology sectors.
The last statement from the White House is that the government could ‘lose smoke’ if the debt limit was not raised until the deadline. In addition to potential U.S. debt default, the U.S. government is also facing a credit downgrade.
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Poor constraints that include employees in foreign languages, especially English, inadequate local infrastructure, and lack of support from local governments to foreign investors.
It was raised by members of the Executive Board of PT. ETA Ben Härtlein in Bayern’s Asia Pacific Forum (FAPB) to 10 in Nürnberg recently.
FAPB attended by about 500 participants coming from the fields of economics, politics and science. Indonesian delegation headed by Deputy Trade Minister Mahendra Siregar, Indonesia was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Transportation Indonesia Bambang Susantono, Ambassador of Indonesia Eddy Protomo Berlin, Frankfurt Consulate General Indonesia Damos Dumoli Agusman and Head of Bank Indonesia Representative Office in London Ediana Rae. Meanwhile, businessmen from Indonesia in representing KADIN Indonesia, PT. Multistrada Directions Facilities Limited (industrial tires), PT. Cocoa (cocoa industry), and PT. Galih Ayom Paramesti (auto components industry). Read the rest of this entry »