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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... Disappointing industrial production growth numbers add to the disappointing inflation and consumer spending data pointing that the BOJ would be easier in September. Japanese industrial output showed no growth in the month of July after rising by 2.3% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... consumer prices - which excludes fresh food - quickened to minus 0.5% in July from minus 0.4% in the previous month. Even the BOJ's "cheat" inflation measure - the so-called core-core inflation rate (which excludes food and energy) - slowed to plus 0.3% ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is set to deliver a comprehensive assessment of the performance of its monetary policy in September, with the market split ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... Disappointing Japanese economic growth figures have all but cemented expectations for more policy easing from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) come September. Preliminary estimates showed that real GDP produced no growth in the three months to June. This is a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... 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
... 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 "enhancement" ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... less than a fifth of investors said they held investments for five years, and around a third invest for less than a year. BoJ expected to go even deeper into negative interest rates Japan' central bank is meeting today and is expected to lower rates ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... 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 Liquid ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
Japan external trade Latest trade data out of Japan conflicts with the BOJ's outlook - noted at its policy meeting last week - for "moderate expanding trend" in the economy. Japan registered a ¥40.72 billion deficit in May. While this is an improvement ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... bank tracks. Latest 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 ...