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The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... show complacency and stretched valuation. International developments. Check. US dollar strength is aiding the ECB and the BOJ's efforts at reflating growth and consumer prices and China too. The question now is what happens next? How would the Fed lady ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... over the past two weeks should help contain inflation -- the same US dollar strength that's also aiding the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank's (ECB) quest towards faster growth and higher inflation. The euro is down 2.6% versus the greenback ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... Cabinet Office maintained its expectations for a pick-up in machinery orders over the coming months. This is consistent with the BOJ's third quarter Tankan survey that showed big Japanese companies plan to lift capital spending by 4.6% in the fiscal ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... policy easing announcements. The Fed fought back, halving its four rises to two and eventually one this year (maybe). The BOJ and the ECB have returned fire and are expected to do more. Naturally, the other smaller central banks caught in the crossfire ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... However, the degree of confidence remained softer than that seen at the start of 2016." Japan Tankan survey The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) Tankan survey suggests that the central bank's policy stimulus measures aren't having a positive impact on sentiment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... continued weakness in retail sales in the coming months. While it's still too early to judge the success or failure of the BOJ's "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... leading up to the 21st of September. But scrooge was nowhere to be seen - exclaiming bah! humbug! - when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) turned up on the 21st of September bearing gifts. The Nikkei-225 index jumped nearly 2% ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas everybody, merry Christmas! The Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) played jolly old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... reported a day earlier points to a near-term improvement. Japan trade balance While the world awaits the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy decision, freshly-released trade data confirms speculations that the Japanese central bank will announce further ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... speculation the region's central bank have reached an end game. The same "end-game" speculation that's plaguing the Bank of Japan (BOJ). While it has promised -- and repeated and reiterated that promise over the past few weeks -- it would act this month ...