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- Subject: World's Futures Market (12/30 - 01/06)
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:02:20 -0600
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- Comments on the following presentation are welcomed!
-
- Weekly Futures Market
- Dec. 30 - Jan. 6 Review Period
-
- Futures Contract Profit/Loss %*
-
- 02/93 Crude Oil -27.33
- 02/92 Gold -34.37
- 03/93 Silver +13.96
- 04/93 Platinum +19.14
- 03/93 Copper +83.27
- 03/93 British Pound +48.77
- 03/93 Canadian Dollar -55.56
- 03/93 DMark -29.63
- 03/93 Swiss Franc -34.26
- 03/93 Yen -23.15
- ** Taiwan Dollar +1.26
- 03/93 U.S. Dollar Index +13.25
- 03/93 Nikkei Stock Index -15.12
- 03/93 S&P 500 -17.29
- ** Taiwan Stock Index -31.44
- 03/93 U.S. Treasury Bond +33.95
- 03/93 U.S. 10 year Treasury Notes +25.46
- 03/93 Cocoa +23.75
- 03/93 Coffee -147.32
- 03/93 Cotton +15.75
- 02/93 Pork Bellies -11.92
- 03/93 Sugar -23.89
- 03/93 Soybean +1.54
- 03/93 Soybean Meal -59.26
- 03/93 Soybean Oil +56.47
- 03/93 CRB index -12.00
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- Source: Paul C. Y. Huang, Taipei. Mr. Huang specializes
- in economic-financial consulting, investment management, and
- training for professional licenses. Phone and fax:
- (02)729-0603. Internet:idpt199@tpts1.seed.net.tw
-
- **These "equivalent contracts" are included here for
- comparative purposes.
-
- *Profit/Loss calculations are changes in Wednesdays'
- closing prices relative to the restpective exchange's initial
- margin deposit requirement of one future contract.
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- U.S. dollar's strength
-
- The dollar gained against most currencies during
- uthe week amidst a background of improving economy, sharpening
- tensions between U.S. and Irag, and a cut of interest rates by
- the Bundesbank.
-
- The National Association of Purchasing Management
- said its overall manufacturing index rose to 55.9% in December,
- up from 55% in November and the strongest reading since May. A
- reading above 50% indicates that the manufacturing economy is
- generally expanding. The Association's new orders index rose
- sharply to 64.4%, the highest level since October 1987. The
- index was 60.8% in November.
-
- Separately, the Labor Department said the number of
- new claims for state unemployment benefits fell a seasonally
- adjusted 28,000 during the week ended Dec.19 to 322,000. More
- significantly, the four week moving average of initial claims
- fell to 341,250, its lowest level since November since 1989.
-
- On Wednesday, U.S. led allies -- including United
- States, Britain, France an Russia -- issued an ultimatum to
- Irag, demanding the removal within 48 hours of surface-to-air
- missiles from inside and near an air exclusion zone declared by
- the allies in August.
-
- The Bundesbank and the Bank of France on Tuesday
- issued a joint communique restating their determination to
- defend the current frac-mark parity, and said that they would
- cooperate to ensure the smooth functioning of the European Rate
- Mechanism. The Bank of France the same day raised a key
- short-term interest rate to 12% from 10%. On Thusday, the
- Bundesbank trimmed the rate on securities repurchase agreements
- to 8.60 percent from 8.75 percent.
-
- Bourse deals with uncertainties
-
- Taiwan's equity market continued to underperform
- others. Earlier this week, Wang Tao-yuan, vice president of
- the Judicial Yuan and Lin Chin-sheng, vice president of
- Examination Yuan -- two of Taiwan's five government branches --
- offered their resignations. There is also considerable
- speculation about whether Prime Minister Hau Pei-tsun is
- readying his resignation later this month, and who will be his
- replacement.
-
- On the other hand, the Finance Ministry is readying
- to lower the current serurities transaction tax from its
- present 0.006% rate, and to introduce, perhaps later, some form
- of capital gains tax to make up the lost revenue.
-
- Hightened interest at Simex
-
- The Singapore International Monetary Exchange
- announced that its trading volume set a record in 1992 with
- 12.2 million contracts traded. Open Interest reach an annual
- high of 255,553, 95.3% increase over 1991's 130,843 contracts.
-
- Analysts attribute the hightened interest to
- increased volatility on the Tokyo stock exchange and turmoil in
- the European currency market, which encourage many investors to
- hedge such uncertainties at the exchange.
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