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BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... choice but to invest in stocks having already pursued quantitative easing via bond purchases and also negative interest rates. "To critics already wary of the central bank's outsized impact on the Japanese bond market, the BOJ's growing influence in ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... benefit from using China for diversification and yield opportunities. "In a global environment with low-to-negative interest rates, Chinese Government Bond yields (currently at approximately 3% for 10 year bonds) are more attractive than yields in other ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... purchase programme (CSPP). In his introductory statement, ECB president Mario Draghi announced that the ECB expects interest rates "to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon of our net asset purchases". ...

Investors must adapt to 'new normal'

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
Australian investors must consider low interest rates, low growth and high volatility as the 'new normal' when constructing their investment strategies, according to Findex. The asset manager argues that in a landscape of low yield and high volatility ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... headline inflation rate had been below 1.0% and provides added scope for the New Zealand central bank to again cut interest rates. The RBNZ last reduced the official cash rate by 25 bps on the 10th of March to a record low 2.25%. The core inflation rate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... improved over the month. The latest labour market stats should ease pressure on the Korean central bank to cut interest rates. It has kept monetary policy on hold since June 2015 when it announced a 25 basis point reduction that took interest rates to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... held by foreigners. Japan bank lending It might still be early days but so far the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) negative interest rates policy appears to not be having an impact on bank lending in Japan. The total value of loans extended by Japanese banks slowed ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... economist Alan Oster. Japan bank lending It might still be early days but so far the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) negative interest rates policy appears to not be having an impact on bank lending in Japan. The total value of loans extended by Japanese banks ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... Japan would act if necessary. Continued yen appreciation could force the BOJ to make good on its promise to take interest rates deeper into the negative when it next meets later this month - or perhaps make an inter-meeting surprise announcement to stress ...

Economic uncertainty demands agile insto investment

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... uncertain investment climate. Of the 100 global institutions surveyed, 77% of central banks are most affected by rising interest rates, while 90% of SWFs and government pension fund respondents said an equity market correction will have a moderate or ...