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by finandlife13/08/2021 20:19

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SBV tiếp tục bơm VND vào thị trường

by finandlife12/08/2021 10:34

Hợp đồng mua kỳ hạn USD đáo hạn có thể bơm VND ra thị trường 50 ngàn tỷ trong tháng 7, 80 ngàn tỷ trong tháng 8, và 35 ngàn tỷ những tháng còn lại của 2021.

Cùng với đó, SBV vừa mới thay đổi chính sách mua kỳ hạn sang mua giao ngay.

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Lợi nhuận sau thuế TOP20 ngân hàng niêm yết và UPCOM đạt 35,806 tỷ đồng, tăng 38.2% cùng kỳ

by finandlife07/08/2021 16:45

TOP20 ngân hàng đang niêm yết và đăng ký giao dịch có kết quả kinh doanh quý 2 ấn tượng, tổng lợi nhuận sau thuế đạt 35,806 tỷ đồng, tăng 38.2% so với cùng kỳ. Tổng dư nợ cho vay đạt 6,692,123,000,000,000 đồng, tăng 17.8% so với cùng kỳ.

Xu hướng giảm chi phí hoạt động và tăng hiệu quả vẫn được duy trì, tổng chi phí hoạt động chỉ còn chiếm 34.6% thu nhập hoạt động, mức thấp kỷ lục. Cùng với đó, ROE liên tục cải thiện, đạt  mức 17.7%, mức cao kỷ lục.

So với cách ngành nghề khác, ngân hàng thương mại dường như là một trong những lĩnh vực kinh doanh hấp dẫn nhất Việt Nam hiện tại, ngoài khả năng tăng trưởng không cần bàn cãi, thì hiệu quả sinh lãi trên vốn chủ sở hữu đang quá cao so với trung bình. 

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Understanding China’s Recent Moves in Its Capital Markets

by finandlife04/08/2021 08:18

Published on July 31, 2021

Ray Dalio

Recent Chinese policy moves related to 1) DiDi’s listing and controls on its data usage and 2) China’s education companies being converted into non-profits have created a lot of doubt about capitalism and capital markets in China, so I’d like to help clarify what’s going on there.

I understand that it’s confusing to people who are not close to what’s happening. Since I started going to China 36 years ago, I have found that most Western observers who do not have direct contact with policy makers’ and don’t follow in detail the patterns of the changes have tended to not believe that the Chinese Communist Party’s usage of capital markets to foster development is real. They interpret moves like these two recent ones as the Communist Party leaders showing their true anti-capitalist stripes even though the trend over the last 40 years has clearly been so strongly toward developing a market economy with capital markets, with entrepreneurs and capitalists becoming rich. As a result, they’ve missed out on what’s going on in China and probably will continue to miss out. In this case the policy makers signaled to DiDi that it might not be best to go ahead with the listing and they understandably want to deal with the data privacy issue. In the case of the educational tutoring companies they want to reduce the educational inequality and the financial burden on those who are desperate to have their children have these services but can’t afford them by making them broadly available. They believe that these things are better for the country even if the shareholders don’t like it. 

I remember a number of such analogous misinterpretations. For example, I remember how the Chinese retail investor bubble bursting led to government stock buying and then the government trying to manipulate the market for a while. Also I remember the Chinese currency plunge in 2015-16 resulting from the PBoC widening the band and how that led to many investors pointing to these developments as evidence that policy makers were turning away from developing capital markets. Some skeptical investors looked at these moves as inappropriate anti-free market interventions even though these same moves happened many times in many capitalist markets and even though the fiscal and monetary policy interventions in the U.S. and other developed markets dwarf the Chinese government interventions in its markets. Through it all Chinese policy makers successfully managed the fallout and pursued their goals; i.e., the direction of their actions never changed. It has been in support of a fast and steady development of capital markets, entrepreneurship, and openness to investment to foreign investors. So I encourage you to look at the trends and not misunderstand and over-focus on the wiggles.

To understand what’s going on you need to understand that China is a state capitalist system which means that the state runs capitalism to serve the interests of most people and that policy makers won’t let the sensitivities of those in the capital markets and rich capitalists stand in the way of doing what they believe is best for the most people of the country. Rather, those in the capital markets and capitalists have to understand their subordinate places in the system or they will suffer the consequences of their mistakes. For example, they need to not mistake their having riches for having power for determining how things will go.

You also need to understand that in this rapidly developing capital markets environment Chinese regulators are figuring out appropriate regulations so, when they are changing fast and aren’t clear, that causes these sorts of confusions, which can be misconstrued to be anti-capitalist moves.

Also, you need to understand that the global geopolitical environment changing leads to some changes. You can see that reflected in the U.S. governments’ policy shifts such as a) changing its policies about Chinese companies’ listings in the United States and b) threats to prohibit American pension funds from investing in China.

Assume such things will happen in the future and invest accordingly. But don’t misinterpret these wiggles as changes in trends, and don’t expect this Chinese state-run capitalism to be exactly like Western capitalism.

Having said that, I do think that it is unfortunate that Chinese policy makers don’t publicly communicate the reasoning behind their moves more clearly.

As for investing, as I see it the American and Chinese systems and markets both have opportunities and risks and are likely to compete with each other and diversify each other. Hence they both should be considered as important parts of one’s portfolio. I urge you to not misinterpret these sorts of moves as reversals of the trends that have existed for the last several decades and let that scare you away.

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Rising Inflation And How Can We "Vaccinate"​ it

by finandlife17/06/2021 08:36

Rising Inflation And How Can We "Vaccinate"​ it

Published on June 16, 2021

Long Tran

Head of Research at BIDV Securities Company

Inflation is on the radar of the central banks around the world again, after a half-year stay as low as negative in many countries. Annual inflation in the EU accelerated to 2% in May 2021 from 1.6% in April. In the US consumer prices rose 5% from last May, marking the biggest increase since September 2008.US inflation is nowhere near their target said by Fed Chairman Powell "We do not seek inflation that substantially exceeds 2 percent, nor do we seek inflation above 2 percent for a prolonged period.” Two of the biggest economic powers see inflation close to or tend to pass their long-term target at around 2%.

Well, central banks are focused on controlling inflation, widely considered to be one of the most important macroeconomic indicators. The right inflation spurs (thúc đẩy) the economy by making consumers buy things. But high inflation hurts businesses and threatens to destroy consumers, especially during the healing time after one and a half years of Covid-19 suffering. Since inflation is rising everywhere, the question here is why inflation is so high and how can we vaccinate it?

Graph 01: USA's CPI, PPI and import price inflation (YoY%)

The first question we might ask is as follows: Why is inflation so high? In my opinion, the rising inflation is caused by (1) disrupting supply chains (2) Base effects — prices fell significantly last spring and (3) easy monetary policies.

(1) Disrupting supply chains. After 1 year of disembarking because of Covid, everywhere in the world the supply chain is broken and interrupted. Data show us that used car prices, lumber prices, and food prices increased. For example, lumber prices go up because people stay at home and have more time to upgrade their houses. Historic lumber shortage was spurred by a perfect storm of factors set off during the pandemic. Furthermore, Asia consumers scream for more lumber but container shortage leading to more supply chain headaches (and push the lumber price up even further). The same thing happens with mask prices, VGA card prices, oxygen bottle prices, and even used car prices.

Graph 02: Base effects — prices fell significantly last spring

Notes: C.P.I. of 100 is equal to prices in 1984. Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics By Ella Koeze

(2) Base effects — prices fell significantly last spring. People say that goods and services' supply and consumption were at their worst in the second quarter of 2020, when China, Europe, and the US was hit by Covid. You remember that the price of crude oil went negative for the first time one year ago. Then, one year later, the price level of commodities jumped the most compared to the bottom of the second quarter of 2020, due to base effects and the fact that demand is recovering faster than supply.

Graph 03: Total Asset of the Federal reserve June 2021

Source: FED

(3) Easy monetary policies. When the recession returned, almost at the same time, the central banks around the globe expressed their concern. They simultaneously eased monetary policy by purchasing long-dated government bonds (in the US), lowering reserve requirements (in China), or reducing operating interest rates. In short, in every country, the government used monetary easing together with easy fiscal policies to prevent recession...

Generally, some amount of inflation is good when it combats the effects of deflation. When consumers expect prices to rise, they spend now, boosting economic growth. When inflation is too high of course, it is not good for the economy or consumers.

The second question is as follows: How can we “vaccinate” inflation? In short, we need every country to be Covid-19 “vaccinated”.

Firstly, the seasonal effect of roaring commodities prices happens naturally and will be here for some time, at least until this second quarter of 2021 ends. Secondly, the easing monetary policies, I believe, will be here much longer, at least until 2022. Even when Fed Chairman Powell said that FED “won’t allow ‘substantial’ overshoot of inflation target”, I think that he rather see inflation rise other than fall.

How's it about disrupting the supply chain? We are living in a globalized and interdependent world where no country can live without demand and supply from others. Take a closer look at your house and all the goods and services that you are consuming. Although you may be buying lumber from local sawmills, you drive cars “made in the EU”, and you eat food “made in Asia”, wear clothes ”made in Africa”, use phones “made in China”. Your phone again, not just made solely in China but has parts from every corner of the world.

Graph 04: The world top export and import 2018

Source: How much

People always say that advanced countries export automobiles, machinery, high-tech products... while developing countries are the main exporter of raw material, food, electronics, fuels, chemicals, clothes, home wares... We are so interdependent that if we want the price level to get back to normal, the economy of not just developing countries but also developing countries should be back to normal. The world that we lived in need to be vaccinated for the supply chain to be healed.

Graph 05: The world vaccination rates by continents

Source: The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Now G7 countries have most of their adult population injected with Covid Vaccine. They even have much more vaccine doses than needed while the emerging countries don't have nearly enough. Like in the U.S., there are more than 27 million unused Moderna doses and 35 million doses from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Moreover, tens of millions of unused Covid vaccine doses are reportedly piling up in Japan and the EU. Vaccinated people start going out and spending when their fellow humans in developing countries still suffer, stay at home, and factories are closed. According to ABC News, the world’s poorest countries are still waiting on vaccines to protect their health care workers and the elderly. Only 0.3% of the vaccine supply is going to low-income countries.

The world economy is running on one engine now. No wonder, the supply chain is disrupted and the price of many goods and services are rising, hurting us all. Lately, US President Biden plans to share 80 million unused vaccine doses (75% of unused COVID-19 vaccines) with the rest of the world. The developed countries should follow the USA and share up doses of its unused vaccines with other countries, and we might all get past this rising inflation together.

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