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May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... raison d'Aatre, the source of angst, the trigger for the sell orders all pointed to the disappointment over the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) failure to provide more policy stimulation - in whatever shape for form - when it was widely expected to announce more ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... offset by an upturn in state and local government spending and an acceleration in residential fixed investment". Bank of Japan policy decision The BOJ disappointed financial market expectations for more stimulus measures when it decided to keep monetary ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... trying to cheapen their currencies in order to import growth and export their way out of deflation. But nay, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has repeated many many times that it is not targeting the yen, so have the European Central Bank (ECB)... and everyone ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
The Bank of Japan's stimulus measures have seen it quietly become one of the largest shareholders in the nation's largest companies, analysis from Bloomberg shows. The Japanese central bank is currently buying up equity ETFs at a rate of ¥3.3 trillion ...

State Street appointed alternatives custodian at GPIF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... Bank (domestic bonds and short-term assets); Japan Trustee Services Bank (domestic equities); and The Master Trust Bank of Japan (international equities). Recent data from the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) shows at 31 December 2015 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... Japan's leading composite index (of 12 economic indicators) in February justifies recent speculations that the the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would announce further policy easing later this week and the BOJ's call for the government to do more to help the central ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... Australia's government debt was 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 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... sustainable", according to NAB's chief 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 ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... dollar even before 2015 turned into 2016. And this is creating big time headaches for the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Despite the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) latest policy initiative - termed "Quantitative and Qualitative (QQE) Monetary ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... easing with a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's words, "I consider it appropriate for ...