Global Economic Outlook: November Capital Outflows From China Biggest Ever

That said, the Chinese government wants to crack down on Bitcoin-related capital outflows. Bitcoin has always been of keen interest to the Chinese crowd. Most people in China see cryptocurrency as can investment vehicle and use it for high-frequency trading. But with the current economic turmoil in the country, Bitcoin is a way to circumvent capital controls. Singapore-based newspaper The Straits Times seems to agree with this sentiment, as they dedicated an entire article to Bitcoin. The Chinese government has to address many different problems at the same time. One of their biggest....

Analysts have warned that China’s capital outflows are accelerating while the yuan is depreciating sharply. They predict the situation to worsen in 2017. Bitcoin.com asked Spencer Bogart, Equity Research analyst at Needham & Company, how China’s situation could affect bitcoin. Yuan Headed for Biggest Decline in Over 20 Years. Goldman Sachs recently....

China devalued the yuan today in a move that caught global markets by surprise. Policy makers have increased efforts to support exporters and, going forward, hope to increase the role of market pricing in Asia's largest economy. The Peoples' Bank of China cut its 1-day rate by 1.9% and, thereby, triggered yuan/dollar devaluation - the biggest one-day drop since January 1994. The central bank informs only this one-time adjustment and intends to increasingly expose the yuan to market supply-and-demand. The announcement follows a series of lower-than-expected data releases from the Chinese....

Heading into the final months of 2015 and the themes for the immediate future of the global economy are clear: rates increases, liquidity crises, austerity in Europe and a limping-along China. Today's GEO explores some of the already-visible symptoms. This post is powered by the Bitcoin Trading Network xbt.social - CCN29 and get 29USD off! Economic Indicators. World Indexes and Forex Rates. Commodities. In the Calendar This Week. Sun 8 November. China Trade balance (actual:393B expected:367B previous:376B). Mon 9 November. N/A. Tue 10 November. New Zealand RBNZ Financial Stability Report.....

A look at what increasing capital outflow from China suggests about bitcoin adoption, and what implications a Chinese slowdown might have for the bitcoin price going forward. At the end of last month, we learnt that Chinese capital outflows during 2015 totaled $676 billion net. The data marks only the third net capital outflow since the turn of the millennium, and by far the biggest, with the other two coming in at less than $140 million net (2012,2014). The outflow comes against a backdrop of wider economic weakness in China and emerging markets, and quantifiably highlights China’s....