Volkswagen Plans to Reduce Workforce Yearly
Top management of Volkswagen may reduce around 2,500 jobs every year for the span of 10 years through early retirement. This is a step for the plan to cut expenses as a future strategy without dismissing thousands of workers abruptly. On the other hand, they are in need of additional workforce for “software development and mobility services” to counteract the Diesel Emission scandal saying they cheated on their pollution emission tests in US.
Weak Trades in China Slows Down Economic Growth
The exports and imports in China fell short of expectations as it dropped by 10% and 1.9% respectively in US dollars. This was triggered by a weak demand both domestically and internationally affected by the price hike in oil. Although in China’s perspective this became an advantage with higher returns. For analysts this is a sign for a slow growth in the economy but it is still inconclusive to say unless there is another substantial report that confirms slow development.
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U.S. Dollars Strengthens Unabatingly That May Lead to Inflation
Greenback continues to surge with the unexpected win of Trump that signals inflation to take place sometime in the future. It climbed as high as 99.247 on Monday during Asian session from 97 handle prior to election. His principles advocated during his campaign such as protectionism, changes in immigration, infrastructures and debt spending set inflation back to the market at the same time, this would cause the U.S. Dollars to further appreciate in value. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 2 percent from 1.80 percent before election. This surge is expected to continue with short-term trend moves up, it is anticipated for U.S. Dollars to get stronger.
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Higher Volumes of Exports Boosted Japan's Economy
The Japan's economy have seen greater improvement from the month of July until September due to a higher number of international trades. The country's GDP escalated to 2.2% within three months. Japan is greatly concern about the anti-free trade rhetoric supported by the newly-elect US President D. Trump since it is expected that this campaign would bother the Japanese region.
Subsequent to the results of the U.S elections, the yen curtailed versus the dollar. Hence, the country's good became cheaper in abroad, this brought positive talks for the foreign exporters. The world's third-largest economy accumulated a better-than- expected result of 0.5% while the forecast showed 0.2% only. However, some analysts who stated that the nation is relying much on exports and considered that these are windfalls only.
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U.S Dollar Gained Much Power Even Before Trump’s Victory
U.S Dollar Gained Much Power Even Before Trump’s Victory
The greens continuously rise after Donald Trump won the American presidential election. However, these upsurge angst companies that imports their products to other countries which caused few investors to place the full responsibility to Trump for they earning less than their average gains because the dollar is too strong.
Moreover, these complaints were on the deck before the new U.S President-elect take his position. The squawks from companies point out that the cause of low earnings is due to the issues regarding the stronger dollar. Some of the large companies that the currency brought headwinds into their firms include Apple, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Kraft Heinz, Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool.
According to the research made by the Pavilion Global Markets that current stance of the dollar is the top reason why companies earned worse than their expectations, followed by issues concerning Brexit, election, the Fed, and wages.
Nevertheless, Jim Paulsen from Wells Capital Management said in an interview that he predicts that the greenbacks will experience a decline for 2017 because of the increasing inflationary expectations.
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