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Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... Europe and emerging Middle-East. Finally, the currency factors are the Australian dollar, British pound, Canadian dollar, euro, yen, New Zealand dollar and Swiss franc. Commenting on the launch, Morningstar head of asset management software Warren Miller ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... industrial production growth remains negative - the sixth straight month including May. No doubt this is mainly due to the yen's strength which had soared even higher following Brexit. UK GDP With the Brexit uncertainty casting a pall over the UK economy ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... current conditions and the future outlook. Japan retail sales It seems Japan cannot get a break. Safe haven flows into the yen following Brexit has strengthened the Japanese currency further. This would certainly negatively impact its external account ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
UK credit rating The Brexit fallout continues. Credit-rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings have downgraded the United Kingdom's sovereign credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered the UK's credit rating by two notches, from 'AAA' to 'AA' ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... export markets (2015) - down 1.1% versus the US dollar; down 0.6% against the Chinese yuan; down 4.5% vis-A -vis the Japanese yen. And while the local currency went up against the British pound - up 7.3% -- and the euro - up 1.0% -- the Department of ...

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... rise to 48.2 and marks the fourth straight month that factory activity in the country had been in contraction (below 50). Yen strength - up 14.7% versus the greenback this year to date - induced a sharp drop in international demand, sending both production ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... it's much less than market expectations for a ¥40 billion surplus and marks the first deficit since January this year. The yen's continued appreciation - up from ¥120.55 per US dollar at the start of 2016 to ¥110.73 at the end of May - sent exports ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... one. Such is the case with Japan where the BOJ continues to dangle the promise of increased policy easing should persistent yen strength damps the recovery and inflation. It already has. Yen strength is affecting Japan's external accounts. Exports dropped ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Haruhiko Kuroda had been a very busy -- or should I say noisy? -- dude all throughout last week as he tries to verbally abuse the yen to its knees. The yen has steadily risen against the greenback since 28 April when the Japanese central bank announced ...