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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... and the strong yen continue to pressure Japan's manufacturing sector, underscoring market disappointment over the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) expansion of its stimulus programme announced late last month and the government's own fiscal package initiative announced ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... stoked speculations that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. This was not the case for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - which given deteriorating fundamentals have to keep on running just to stay still. It jumped the gun, announcing an ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... measure on one side by people who believe the stimulus amount is too small and on the other by people who believe the Bank of Japan is wary of expanding Japan's already excessive public debt; it is currently 230%of GDP. CNBC are quoting analysts from ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... yields have been upturned as a number of key central banks have put negative interest rates in place, including the Bank of Japan (BoJ), the European Central Bank and the central banks of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Managing director of QIC's Global ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... available data show core PCE inflation was at 1.6% in the year to April with the headline PCE at 1.1%. BOJ on hold The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced no change in policy - interest rate at minus 0.1% and target expansion of monetary base at ¥80 trillion ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... that sales of safes in the last week were two-and-a-half times higher than in the same period a year earlier. The Bank of Japan has for months imposed negative rates for holding bank deposits in an attempt to push lenders to deploy their cash in the ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... bank's massive monetary easing programme. Three new "physical and human capital" ETFs are designed solely for the Bank of Japan, which needs fresh assets to meet its Y32bn monthly ETF buying spree having already bought more than 50% of Japan's Y15 trillion ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... central banks trying to boost their economies or inflation or both such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). It would be disastrous for emerging markets - particularly for those with debts denominated in US dollars - for it ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor 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 ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... cut announcement). It could be said once again, that the RBA has done what the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - with their quantitative easing and negative interest rates -- could only aspire to... a lower currency to boost growth ...