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Impact Of Euro Crisis on Asian Financial Markets

& Investments The European debt crisis is the shorthand term for Europe’s struggle to pay the debts it has built up in recent decades Five of the region’s countries – Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain – have, to varying degrees, failed to generate enough economic growth

to make their ability to pay back bondholders the guarantee it was intended to be

The global economy has experienced slow growth since the U.S financial crisis

of 2008- 2009, which has exposed the unsustainable fiscal policies of countries in Europe and around the globe Greece, which spent heartily for years and failed to undertake fiscal reforms, was one of the first to feel the pinch of weaker growth

When growth slows, so do tax revenues – making high budget deficits unsustainable The result was that the new Prime Minister George Papandreou, in late 2009, was forced

to announce that previous governments had failed to reveal the size of the nation’s deficits In truth, Greece’s debts were so large that they actually exceed the size of the nation’s entire economy, and the country could no longer hide the problem

Investors responded by demanding higher yields on Greece’s bonds, which raised the cost of the country’s debt burden and necessitated a series of bailouts by the European Union and European Central Bank (ECB) The markets also began driving up bond yields in the other heavily indebted countries in the region, anticipating problems similar to what occurred in Greece

Europe is a currency union, but not a fiscal union This means that if an economy gets into severe difficulty there is no automatic transfer of resources from the rest of Europe, (as would actually be the case in the United States) Thus, a troubled economy also has no ability to devalue its currency and so it languishes in recession This recession leads to budget deficits and growing government debt

Three scenarios for the euro zone:

1 The European project struggles on, aided and abetted by further fiscal and political

2 There is an orderly breakup of the EU whereby Portugal, Spain and Italy are

ring- fenced in some manner against the Greek contagion

3 There is a disorderly breakup of the EU

Murenbeeld believes there is roughly a 5% likelihood of scenario 1 coming to pass, a 40% chance that scenario 2 will occur and a 55% chance that there will be a disorderly breakup of the euro zone

(Martin Murenbeeld , chief economist at Dundee Wealth Economics)

Asia does a lot of trade with Europe The European Union (the larger grouping of twenty seven countries, to which the Euro group belongs) is the largest single economy

in the world, accounting for 27 pct of global GDP In comparison, the US is 23 pct of global GDP Asia (excluding Japan and Australia, but including China and India) is 18 pct of the world economy Asia exported $541 bln to the European Union in 2010 Europe swallows 16 pct of Asia’s exports directly — before accounting for the intra Asian trade that ultimately feeds European demand (for instance Korea exporting components to Thailand which then exports a finished product to Europe)

When looking to Asia’s capital account, it is obvious that the Euro area has been

an important investor into Asia in recent years — both in financial assets and in direct investment With the advent of the Euro crisis, Euro area investors are keen to have their capital in liquid assets, in Euro currency, and to take profits where they can All three factors suggest repatriation from Asian financial markets; that now seems to be happening

With financial market turmoil in the Euro area, it seems quite likely that governments will increase financial sector regulation Some of the policies of the past two decades, which liberalised capital flows, may be reversed If banks, insurers, or pension funds are told to increase holdings of Euro bonds (for ―prudential‖ reasons) they will be less able to invest overseas The future flow of capital from the Euro area to Asia will be less than it has been in the past few years Indeed, the capital flow could be substantially less

The European debt crisis is abbreviated term for Europe’s struggle to pay the debts accured in recent decades Five of the region’s countries in regions – Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain – with different degrees- failed to generate economic growth to help themselves have abilities returning for owner of depenture bonds and ensure compliance with its plans

Thus, How did the European debt crisis begin?

Firstly, The global economy has experienced slow growth since the U.S financial crisis of 2008-2009, which has exposed the unsustainable fiscal policies of countries in Europe and around the globe Greece, which spent heartily for years and failed to undertake fiscal reforms, was one of the first to feel the pinch of weaker growth When growth slows, so do tax revenues – making high budget deficits unsustainable The result was that the new Prime Minister George Papandreou, in late 2009, was forced to announce that previous governments had failed to reveal the size of the nation’s deficits

In truth, Greece’s debts were so large that they actually exceed the size of the nation’s entire economy, and the country could no longer hide the problem

Secondly,investors responded by demanding higher yields on Greece’s bonds, raised public debt burden and led to requirements must have a series of bailouts of the

European Union and European Central Bank (ECB) Markets of countries in much debts also pushd debenture bond interest rate to go to a high place when predicting problems similar to what occurred in Greece

Why Japan and US have not sovereign debt crisis, while their debt ratio are 230% and 100%, respectively?

If in a single country,how to deal with regional disparity?

There are two main ways to compensate for backward region: fiscal policy transfer by central government and migration of labor .However,in European areas, weak economy such as Greece can not depreciate its currency, not transfer finances from outside and not diminish unemployment because of labor migration within Euro zone Nor can balance debts by issuing more currency.As a result,crisis can not escape

This problem is explained as :Europe is a currency union, but not a financial alliance. This means that if an economy gets into severe difficulties, there is no automatic transfer of resources from the rest of Europe, (like the case of the United States) Thus, a troubled economy also has no ability to devalue its currency and so it languishes in recession This economic recession leads to budget deficits and more and more growing government debt

Why should Asia care about the crisis of the Eurozone

Transactions between Asia and Europe

Asia makes a lot of trade transactions with the European Union (a group of 27 countries that use the euro area) - the largest economy in the world, accounting for 27%

of global GDP Meanwhile, the United States is 23% of global GDP Asia (excluding Japan and Australia, but including China and India) accounts for 18% GDP of the world economy Asian exports to European Union reached 541 billion $ in 2010.Euro accounts for 16% of direct exports of Asia- before caculating Asian internal commercial transaction that ultimately supply for the needs of European countries (eg South Korea exports ingredients to Thailand and then exports to Europe)

The Return to European financial market

When looking at Asia's capital account, it is easy to see that the European common currency area is an important investor in Asia in recent years - both in terms of financial assets and direct investment About Euro crisis events, investors are interestd in capital in the form of liquid assets, the euro, and take profits wherever possible, all 3 factors show a return to the financial markets in Asia, now seems to be happening

Reversal of capital flows

With financial market crisis in the European common currency area, it seems likely that governments strengthen regulations in the financial sector A number of policies about capital flows liberalization in the last two decades may change If the banking, insurance, or pension funds increase to hold depenture bonds by euro (for the

"cautious" reasons), they will have less abilities to invest abroad Capital flows in the future from European common currency area to Asia will be less than in previous years Indeed, capital flows may be less significantly

Focus on domestic market

What happens to euro will affect the economy and the Asia market in next few years Asia must change to cope with the challenges of crisis surrounding euro currency zone Asia should base on the needs of domestic market and domestic capital more

The impacts of the European debt crisis on Asian companies

 The impact of European debt crisis on Asian companies should be "managed" due

to an increase in regional trade and many dependences on regional banks.

 The first channel European common currency area is to possible impact on Asia

is that reducing demands for Asian exporting goods.However, companies

primarily based on exports to European countries are only relatively small group

That's because a significant amount of trade transaction in Asia are in region

Direct impacts from European common currency area on Asia is limited

The positives are that Asia has high reserves and low public debt and these

elements should help protect Asia, but they won’t make it immune

Impacts on trade

How trade will be affected ? Instead ability of rising domestic market demand instead of reducing foreign markets needs vary across the country.Hence, commercial impacts on each country depend on:

 The size of country (or importance of exports)

 Financial ability

China has advantages in terms of size and capabilities Singapore has a strong financial position, but the domestic market is too small India has large scale but weak financial viability Philippines has disadvantage in both scale and financial capacity

With 20% exporting yields to EU, both China and India will be impacted, despite having brighter outlook for U.S., it also act on leading exporters in region including South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan European growth slows down (or even negative),it leads to that exports to Europe goes down, Asian exporters will be suffered When European growth slows down, Chinese exports to Europe declines, Asian exports to China goes down,as a result, Asia is suffered

Domestic consumption

On the other hand, consumption is holding up reasonably well in some countries such as China and Indonesia, that help support activities, while, in addition, increasing share of trade transaction and foreign direct investment of these countries are inside Asia

Some Asian companies, however, are more affected by European crisis than others In electronics consumption, Japanese firms such as Sony are more affected due to economic weakness in European developed markets comparing to Korean competitors such as Samsung focusing on developing markets For automakers, both Japanese and Korean companies will sufer some impacts due to slower demand from Europe However, Japanese carmakers are are suffering slump in the United States than in Europe

Counterweight shift of the economy

The International Monetary Fund estimates that 70% world growth in next few years will come from emergent markets China and India will account for 40% of this growth As a consequence, emergent markets are now expected to overcome developed economies in world GDP as early as 2014

How does European debt crisis affect financial markets?

Contagious possibility has made European debt crisis like a significant focal point for world financial markets in 2010-2012 period With market turmoils in 2008 and 2009 fairly recent in memory, investors’s reaction to any bad news from Europe

took place swiftly: have sold anything risky, and bought government bonds of contries largest and having the best finances Typically, European bank stocks – and

European markets in particular– occured much worse than their global counterparts during the times when the crisis was on center stage The bond markets of affected nations also performed poorly, as rising interest rates means that prices are falling At the same time, debenture bond interest rates of U.S goverment fell to lowest levels in history in reflection of investors’ "flight to safety."

Impacts of European Union regions crisis on financial market

 A shock to stability of financial market, if Greece breaks away from Europe zone, the shock will be even bigger

 Weaken abilities of private financial institutes

 Tighten fiscal policy of government

 There is not a real solution to solve debt crisis, the impact may last long

 Slow-down of the economy, as well as trade and investment

Why did depenture bonds revenue rise in response to this crisis and what does it imply ?

The reason for rising depenture bond interest rate is very simple: if investors see high risks associated with investing in a country’s depenture bonds, they will require a higher returns to compensate for these risks This begins a vicious cycle: demand for higher interest rate equating to higher borrowing costs for countries in crisis, it leads to further financial strain, that make investors demand even higher interest rate, and so

on A general loss for investor’s confidence, typically, causes affections not only for discussed country, but also other countries with similar weak finances – an effect typically was called“contagion.”

Does the European confidence crisis spread to Asia?

Standard & Poor's credit analyst named Elena Okorotchenko says, "The main

channel of contagion is higher funding costs It sates that, we don't expect the same

reduction degree for funding conditions for Asian countries." "Among Asian contries with relatively high debt burdens, Japan, India, and Taiwan borrow mostly

domestically and are not sufferd changes in the psychology of investors as those

borrowing externally," Okorotchenko added

Impact on the economic recovery of South East Asia

Southeast Asian economies have shown resiliences when domestic demands increase to offset faltering exports Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, expanded more than 6 percent for 6 consecutive quarters to March Thailand’s economy unexpectedly expanded in last quarter, while Philippine growth was the fastest since

2010

The ongoing instability in European common currency area does not cause chain effect in the ASEAN region due to positive growth prospects in other parts of the global economy According to Ranjiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Singapore,speaking at 2012 Asean Risk conference in Singapore, Biswas knew: positive economic momentum from the US and the continuing growth of China as well as rehabilitation of Japan from recession means that Asean region should not fear a slowdown caused by euro area crisis

Financial impacts

 Many countries influenced by international capital flows, including bank loans and FDI captial from Europe

 The influential level of European deep crisis to developing countries depends

on two factors: total amount of received funds and receiving structure (FDI flow rate / non-capital FDI flows)

How have European debt crisis affected on Vietnam?

 Difficult export

According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, EU is the second largest export market of Vietnam after the United States It consumes about 15.8% of products produced by Vietnam in 2010 Particularly, in November, 2011, Vietnam's exports to

EU reached 16.5 billion dollars, grew relatively high with 45.4% In 2012, forecasts that economies in eurozone will continue to have difficulties (people's incomes decline, inflation, rising unemployment, etc.) lead to tightened expenses trends surely Accordingly, goods imported into EU will be affected certainly

In addition, EU countries also increase protection policies domestic goods, so that Vietnam exporting goods will encounter barriers from this problem as well as competition from other exporting countries

 Capital and National trust decline

European public debt crisis could create two completely opposite effects on FDI flows on global scale Countries having the same development level with EU countries will benefit ,because FDI capital will move from Europe to these countries when investors want to avoid corporate income tax tending to rise in European countries Conversely, countries with low development levels as Vietnam do not absolutely benefit from FDI shift out of Europe due to gaps in technology level, while capital flows from European investment to these countries declined due to debt crisis However, impact from the European debt crisis, tightened fiscal year policy, future, forecasting FDI capital attraction continues to face many difficulties next time

In addition, European public debt crisis has made investors and trust ranking organizations pay more attentions to public debt problems of developing countries in the world 3 basic groupsto warn including :too much debt show on high public debt / GDP;