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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... the previous month. However, the higher yen has not had the textbook effect on imports, underscoring the weak state of Japanese domestic demand. Imports dropped by 13.8% in the year to May, improving from the previous month's 23.3% dive but still represent ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... falling by 4.5% last month following a 5.1% decline in April. Japan industrial production Big deal. Final figures show that Japanese industrial production went up by 0.5% in the month of April -- up from the preliminary estimate of a 0.3% rise - following ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... problem of having to pay institutions to hold their cash deposits - safes, vaults and strongrooms are back in vogue. Japanese hardware stores report demand for safes - where cash can be stored at an interest rate of zero, irrespective of what central ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... 1.7% and a sharp reversal from the December quarter's 1.8% contraction. However, the year-on-year growth rate in the Japanese economy continues to decelerate, with GDP practically stalling (up 0.02%) in the March quarter from 0.8% in the December quarter ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... extended period of time, and well past the horizon of our net asset purchases". Japan consumer confidence Confidence among Japanese consumers beat market expectations for a decline to a 40.4 reading, rising to 40.9 in May from 40.8 in the previous month ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... precipitated partly by Serbia not being in the EU yet and therefore unaffected by trade sanctions in Russia, which has prompted Japanese and German companies to move manufacturing facilities there. This three-tiered approach, he continued, has driven ...

Listed and direct real estate show correlation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... discount. Australian REITs are trading at a slight premium, with larger premiums ascribed to Continental Europe and the Japanese REIT market. Maydew added: "In individual markets where listed real estate is trading at a discount to NAV, the best management ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... dive in exports in the year to April may be good for the national accounts but not if it underscores the weakness in Japanese domestic demand. The April marked the 16th straight month of falling imports and was the biggest drop since October 2009. Japan's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... month's 0.9% drop. UK producer prices have been in deflation since July 2014. Japan GDP Preliminary estimates show the Japanese economy once more dodged falling into a technical recession with real GDP expanding by 0.4% in the first quarter of this year ...

BetaShares launches hedged Europe and Japan ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
BetaShares has launched Australia's first currency-hedged European and Japanese equity ETFs on the ASX. BetaShares WisdomTree Europe ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HEUR) and BetaShares WisdomTree Japan ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HJPN) provide access to ...