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Nigeria plans to demutualize its stock exchange in order to establish it among the prime destinations for frontier investors.
When the excess demand is for liquid assets used as means of payment – for “money” – the natural response is to have the central bank buy government bonds for cash, thus increasing the money stock and bringing supply back into balance with demand.
Stock markets are plummeting; emerging economies are reeling in response to the sharp decline in commodities prices; refugee inflows are further destabilizing Europe;China’s growth has slowed markedly in response to a capital-flow reversal and an overvalued currency; and the US is in political paralysis.
Progress depends on a high rate of global investment: building the skills, technology, and physical capital stock to propel standards of living higher.
And Iran will have to keep its stock of 3.67%-enriched uranium to below 300 kilograms.
But theory does not always translate into practice; while the BOJ’s introduction of negative rates almost immediately pushed the interest-rate structure lower, as expected, the policy’s effects on the yen and the stock market have been an unpleasant surprise.
Given this, there is no reason why the Tokyo stock market should gyrate whenever the Shanghai market shakes.
Instead, the Japanese stock market regarded negative rates as a harbinger of greater financial risk, and speculators have remained bullish on the yen.
Stock markets around the world have fallen back toward their February lows, business confidence has weakened in Europe and much of Asia, and policymakers worldwide are making nervous noises.
Whenever stock markets have fallen sharply, as they did in early February and again after Trump announced his trade sanctions on China, the bond-buying instinct became irresistible, bond prices rallied, and the resulting reductions in long-term interest rates stabilized stock markets.
Market PsychologyThe sharp one-day drop in the Chinese stock market on February 27 apparently had an enduring negative effect on major stock markets around the world.
This large and enduring effect has surprised many, since the “story” about the Chinese drop – that the trigger was a rumor that China’s government, concerned about speculation, planned to impose controls on the stock market – seems to have no logical relevance elsewhere.
But, unless one believes that stock markets move only in response to information about economic fundamentals, there really is no reason to be surprised.
One-day drops in important stock markets have always had enduring and general effects, owing to market psychology.
Unfortunately, this behavioral theory of stock market movements is not amenable to easy quantification and forecasting.
After February 27, 2007, it looked as if the markets were settling down, and the VIX measure of stock market volatility had fallen back nearly to earlier levels.
The bright side is that one-day stock market declines occur more commonly as isolated events with no long-term repercussions.
A 2016 analysis of Los Angeles’s housing stock by the McKinsey Global Institute found that 28% of parcels zoned for multifamily development were underutilized.
Now that financial crisis has spread from East Asia to much of Latin America, parts of Africa, and Russia, and it has rattled the stock markets of the advanced economies.
By flooding capital markets with liquidity and holding down market interest rates, policymakers encouraged investors to bid up stock and bond prices.
US President Donald Trump has leveled similar complaints at the Federal Reserve, claiming that interest-rate hikes are dampening economic growth and the US stock market.
As early as 1997, I warned about a repeat of the collapsed economic order of 1929-1933 in my book A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Global Economics : “The slightest remark, for example by the President of the American Federal Bank, Alan Greenspan, at the beginning of December 1996, that an “irrational exuberance” had led to an overvaluation of the financial markets was enough to drive the nervous investors on the high-flying stock markets of Asia, Europe and America into a spin, and panic selling.
In the last two years, Japan’s stock market has almost doubled in value, increasing the wealth of Japanese consumers.
And yet headlines seeming to portend political instability and chaos have not prevented stock markets from soaring.
Rising stock and housing markets may fuel inequality, but they also drive increased consumer spending.
A plausible pickup in business investment in the US and northern Europe, combined with a sudden slowdown in Asian economies with surplus savings, could in principle produce an outsize rise in global rates, jeopardizing today’s low borrowing costs, frothy stock markets, and subdued volatility.
It will be important to remember that the central bank’s role is not to boost stock prices, but to ensure that the economy’s underlying fundamentals and its financial system enable sustainable growth.
So do cross-border borrowing and lending through stock and bond markets.
To succeed, we will need several decades to convert power stations, infrastructure, and building stock to low-carbon technologies, and we will need to upgrade the low-carbon technologies themselves, whether PV solar cells, or batteries for energy storage, or CCS for safely storing CO2, or nuclear power plants that win the public’s confidence.
As long as the stock of debt remains excessive, consumers will dismiss the reduction in interest expenses as nothing more than a temporary subsidy from the Fed.
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