André Kostolany
MfG
Palaimon
|
China cannot turn around its export-driven economy in isolation, and needs improvement in the rest of the world, especially the United States, in order to return to growth, a top Chinese official said on Tuesday.
Aggressive monetary and fiscal policies put in place over the past few months are being "effective" in supporting China's economy but the "current improvement is not solid," said Chen Deming, China's minister of commerce.
"We still see some factors of instability," including the lack of a notable increase in private sector investment, Chen said in response to questions after a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
China's central bank has slashed interest rates five times since September 2008 to the current 5.31 percent on the benchmark one-year yuan lending rate, and a major fiscal stimulus package, estimated at some $586 billion over two years, was announced in November.
Some of China's new programs are aimed at spurring domestic consumption. Still, "without the world economy, without the U.S. economy improving, it's impossible for the Chinese economy to improve on its own," Chen said. Speaking through a translator, Chen said the U.S. dollar would remain the world's major currency.
"The U.S. dollar as a main currency for international trade has many deficiencies, but the settlement of international trade will mainly be transacted in U.S. dollars," he said, without elaborating on those "deficiencies."
China in March had suggested that the U.S. dollar could be replaced as the world's major reserve currency.
"Chen's statement ... is supportive of the U.S. dollar's long-term prospects, which were debated a few months ago after an opposing suggestion made in a Chinese government report that the dollar be replaced," analysts at 4CAST Ltd in New York said in a note to clients.
The minister emphasized the need for a commitment to free trade even when economies are struggling.
"Some countries" are taking a two-faced approach to trade by decrying protectionism while at the same time instituting protectionist trade measures, he said.
For the United States in particular, "we hope that the U.S. government can tell its people that further liberalization of trade will be crucial for the restoration of the U.S. economy," he said.
"We hope the U.S. can further open its markets ... if we fend off each other's products and fight a trade way, we won't win at the end of the day."
More From CNBC.com
Chen said that regulation of global financial markets ultimately needed to be strengthened in the fallout from the credit market crisis that helped trigger a global recession.
For now, though, "we need to tackle the lack of liquidity" still at work in credit markets, he said.
#0000ff">Chen said that regulation of global financial markets ultimately needed to be strengthened in the fallout from the credit market crisis that helped trigger a global recession.
#0000ff">For now, though, "we need to tackle the lack of liquidity" still at work in credit markets, he said.
Hmm...heute las ich folgendes:
Das Brokerhaus CICC veröffentlichte diese Woche seine Schätzung zum Kreditwachstum in 2009. Zur Recherche sprachen die Brokerkollegen in Hongkong und China mit allen wichtigen Banken zu deren Kreditwachstum im ersten Quartal 2009 und deren Erwartungen für das laufende Jahr. Nach den Berechnungen von CICC könnten in China in 2009 neue Kredite über 7 Billionen Renminbi vergeben werden. Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr liegt hier eine Steigerung um 24 % vor.
In China herrscht also alles andere als eine Kreditklemme. Allein im Monat März haben die chinesischen Banken knapp 300 Milliarden Euro an Krediten vergeben. Das ist absolut erstaunlich in Zeiten der globalen Rezession: Noch nie wurde in einem Monat so viel Geld vergeben!
Damit können wir die Zinssenkungen der chinesischen Zentralbank als wirkungsvoll betrachten. Außerdem stehen die chinesischen Banken sehr viel besser da, als die Amerikanischen. Wie Sie vermutlich wissen, lauern dort in den Bilanzen noch jede Menge Risiken.
Nicht so in China.
Dennoch ist klar, dass auch China die Krise noch nicht überwunden hat. Ein ganz simpler Indikator dafür ist der Stromverbrauch. Chinesische Medien berichteten letzte Woche, dass der Verbrauch im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 4 % zurückgegangen sei.
Sicherlich ist dies keine Schreckensmeldung. Doch wir können daran sehen, dass China derzeit noch nicht die angestrebten Wachstumsraten in der Wirtschaft erreicht hat.
Good Morning Asia good-morning-asia@vnr.srv3.de
Zahlen, dennoch feiern die Börsianer diese vorbörslich mit steigenden Futures.
Man muss nicht alles verstehen.
Permanent
The U.S. economy contracted at a steeper-than-expected pace in the first quarter, weighed down by sharp declines in exports and business inventories, according government data on Wednesday that showed the economy was still deep in recession.
Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, dropped at a 6.1 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said, after shrinking 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast GDP falling at a 4.9 percent rate in the January-March quarter. Output has declined for three straight quarters for the first time since 1974-1975.
The advance report from the Commerce Department showed business inventories plummeted by a record $103.7 billion in the first quarter, as firms worked to reduce stocks of unsold goods in their warehouses. That sliced 2.79 percentage points from the overall GDP figure. Excluding inventories, GDP contracted 3.4 percent.
However, declining inventories is a positive development as it suggests the inventory correction cycle might be over.
Exports collapsed 30 percent, the biggest decline since 1969, after dropping 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter. The decline in exports knocked off a record 4.06 percentage points from GDP.
Investment by businesses tumbled a record 37.9 percent in the first quarter, while residential investment dived 38 percent, the biggest decline since the second quarter of 1980.
However, there were some bright spots in the report.
Consumer spending, which accounts for over two-thirds of economic activity, rose 2.2 percent, after collapsing in the second half of last year. Consumer spending was boosted by a 9.4 percent jump in purchases of durable goods, the first advance after four quarters of decline.
The Commerce Department said the government's $787 billion rescue package of spending and tax cuts, approved in February, had little impact on first-quarter GDP. Part of the stimulus package is designed to bolster state and local and government spending, which fell at a 3.9 percent rate in the first quarter, the largest decline since the second quarter of 1981.
U.S. home loan applications fell last week to the lowest level since mid-March, driven by a big drop in refinancing demand even as mortgage rates clung to record lows, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday. #0000ff">Selbst fallende Zinsen locken die US Bürger nicht mehr.
Refinance applications fell 21.9 percent in the week ended April 24, overwhelming the 0.6 percent dip in home purchase loan requests to drag the trade group's total loan index down 18.1 percent.
The drop in total mortgage applications brought that index to 960.6, its lowest since 876.9 in the March 13 week.
Average 30-year mortgage rates, meantime, dropped 0.11 percentage point to 4.62 percent.
The rate nearly matched the all-time low of 4.61 percent set in the week ended March 27 and was well below 6.01 percent a year ago. This was only the second week since the start of March that refinancing demand fell.
Borrowers have shown consistently more demand to cut existing costs by refinancing than for new loans to buy homes.
The refinance index at a seasonally adjusted 5,108.2 last week was down from 6,813.5 in early April. Still, it remained well above 2,722.7 in early February, when the average 30-year mortgage rate was more than 1/2 percentage point higher.
Refinancings represented about 75 percent of all mortgage applications last week, down from a nearly 80 percent share the prior week.
The purchase index declined to a two-month low of 251.6, the trade group said.
Despite emerging signs of stability in sales and home prices, the deepest housing downturn since the Great Depression is not apt to turn around swiftly, most economists agree. Still, affordability is at a record high.
In addition to low mortgage rates, thanks largely to government actions like a pledge to buy up to $1.45 trillion of mortgage-related securities, house prices have fallen steeply since their summer 2006 peak.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price indexes have toppled more than 30 percent through February. Price erosion has been greater or smaller depending on the region.
The good news may be that in February it was the first time in 16 months that the annual declines did not set a record, according to S&P on Tuesday.
"A combination of the lowest rates in generations and a pretty healthy decline in property values in most parts of the country strikes me as something that certainly is positive for the housing market, although it's hard to predict certainly where the bottom in pricing will be," said Scott Happ, chief executive at Mortgagebot, a mortgage origination software company in Mequon, Wisconsin.
Potential buyers who are confident in their job status, especially first-time buyers, are entering the market, realtors and analysts have said.
A federal first-time home buyer's credit and $275 billion stimulus that eases refinancing and loan modifications should soon start putting a floor under the housing market.
There is a "growing sense that the U.S. housing market may be stabilizing," Millan Mulraine, economics strategist at TD Securities, wrote on Tuesday. "Nevertheless, with U.S. households still facing considerable headwinds, a meaningful turnaround in the housing sector remains some way off."
US-Wirtschaft schrumpft um 6,1 Prozent
Wie steht es um die Industrie?
Angesichts einer wegbrechenden Nachfrage aus dem Ausland schränken die US-Unternehmen ihre Produktion ein und bauen ihre Lagerbestände ab. Der Rückgang der Aktivität ist gewaltig: Die Industrieproduktion sank im März um 1,5 Prozent - das ist der 14. Rückgang in den vergangenen 15 Monaten. Der Ausstoß amerikanischer Fabriken schrumpfte im ersten Quartal auf das Jahr hochgerechnet um 20 Prozent. Die Kapazitätsauslastung fiel zum ersten Mal seit Beginn der Datenaufzeichnung 1967 unter die Schwelle von 70 Prozent.
www.ftd.de/politik/international/...Prozent/506901.html?p=5#a1
Zum gestrigen gestiegenen US-Verbrauchervertrauen schreibt Dick Arms/Street.com Ähnliches wie ich kürzlich zum IFO-Index: Es ist ein Blick in den Rückspiegel. An Aktienmarkt-Tiefs ist auch das Vertrauen der Amis am Boden - und umgekehrt:
How absurd! Investing based upon the consumer confidence index is like driving down the freeway while looking in the rearview mirror. Yet, as usual, the markets reacted positively yesterday to a rise in the index, seemingly unaware that the index tells us what has happened, not what is going to happen.... The reality is that the market is still hesitating after that advance and is trapped in a consolidation area. But underlying that indecision is the fact that the market is acting overbought. Particularly in the Nasdaq, we are seeing indices that say the rise has gone too far too fast and is likely to pull back. The second chart compares the readings on the shorter-term Arms Index numbers for the Nasdaq with the current S&P 500. It is apparent that we are in a region almost always associated with shorter-term market highs. I see no reason to be a buyer at this time.
|
| Wertung | Antworten | Thema | Verfasser | letzter Verfasser | letzter Beitrag | |
| 29 | 3.789 | Banken & Finanzen in unserer Weltzone | lars_3 | youmake222 | 10.12.25 11:19 | |
| 469 | 156.440 | Der USA Bären-Thread | Anti Lemming | ARIVA.DE | 08.12.25 18:00 | |
| 55 | PROLOGIS SBI (WKN: 892900) / NYSE | 0815ax | ARIVA.DE | 19.10.25 10:00 | ||
| Daytrading 15.05.2024 | ARIVA.DE | 15.05.24 00:02 | ||||
| Daytrading 14.05.2024 | ARIVA.DE | 14.05.24 00:02 |