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BIS: Central Bank Asset Purchases Eased Financial Conditions During Covid-19 By Improving Market Liquidity

Date 17/03/2023

• Many central banks conducted large-scale asset purchases for the first time during the Covid-19 crisis.
• The impact of asset purchases and relative importance of various transmission channels differed across time and economies.
• The liquidity channel, whereby purchases improved financial market liquidity, was particularly important during the early weeks of the Covid-19 crisis.

BIS - Big Tech Credit And Monetary Policy Transmission: Micro-Level Evidence From China

Date 17/03/2023

Summary

Focus 

Big tech credit has been growing rapidly in recent years. As they are less reliant on traditional collateral, big tech lenders can lend to borrowers that have been unserved or underserved by traditional financial institutions. As a source of disruption, big techs represent a "brave new world" for monetary policymakers, requiring them to re-evaluate the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission through these new lenders. This paper attempts some answers to such questions.

CFTC Commissioner Goldsmith Romero To Participate On The Ceres Global Panel On Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Positive Contribution To 1.5C?

Date 17/03/2023

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Summary, 17 March 2023

Date 17/03/2023

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ICE’s Global Commodity And Energy Markets Reach Record Open Interest With Record Volume In Oil Options

Date 17/03/2023

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, today announced record open interest (OI) across its global commodity and energy futures and options markets, with record volume in oil options.

LME: Invalidation Of Nine Nickel Warrants And Asian Hours Nickel - Trading Postponement

Date 17/03/2023

This Notice informs the market of the invalidation of nine nickel warrants, and announces a one-week postponement to the LME’s return to Asian trading hours nickel trading.

mai-Listed Companies Post 20% Sales Growth In 2022

Date 17/03/2023

• 2022 sales up 20.1 pct y-o-y to THB 214.69 billion
• Yearly operating profits up 1.8 pct y-o-y to THB 12.56 billion

Share Of Investors In Financial Instrument Turnover On GPW In 2022

Date 17/03/2023

• Retail investors generated 17 percent of equity turnover on the GPW Main Market in 2022 (-5 pps YoY), domestic institutional investors generated 19 percent (-2 pps YoY), while the share of foreign investors increased by 7 pps to a historically high 64 percent.
• On NewConnect, domestic retail investors remained in the lead: their share in turnover was 84 percent (-4 pps YoY). The share of domestic institutional investors grew to 11 percent (+4 pps YoY). The share of foreign investors decreased to 5 percent (-1 pps YoY).
• Foreign investors had the biggest share in derivatives turnover in 2022 for the first time in history: they generated 38 percent (+11 pps YoY). The share of retail investors increased by 3 pps YoY to 35 percent of turnover. The share of institutional investors decreased by 14 pps to 27 percent.

Thai Listed Companies Deliver 2022 Topline-Growth But Operating Costs Take A Bite Out Of Profits

Date 17/03/2023

• SET-listed companies’ total sales in 2022 up 32.4 pct y-o-y to THB 17.68 trillion
• Combined operating profits up 18.4 pct y-o-y to THB 1.83 trillion
• Net profits slightly fell 1.9 pct to THB 974.76 billion

Kinesis Gold And Silver Tradeable On Emirex Exchange: Providing Global Access To Digital Precious Metals - The Listing Of KAU And KAG Brings Greater Availability Of Digitalised Precious Metals To Global Markets

Date 17/03/2023

Kinesis gold (KAU) and Kinesis silver (KAG), fully-allocated gold and silver-based digital currencies from the digital asset trading and utility platform Kinesis Money, are now available to trade on the Emirex Exchange.