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Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... against 16 currencies when news of the downgrade hit blogosphere. But isn't this exactly what Japan wants and the Bank of Japan is trying to achieve? If there's one thing Japan might be ruing, it's that the downgrade did not come earlier.

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... that is, until midyear when the US economy paused and the Fed, instead of withdrawing, printed more money -- the Bank of Japan, the BOE and the ECB also re-started bond purchases. We were all convinced until we found that the sovereign debt crisis did ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... international equities to positive closings. That may be, but the quantitative easing policies implemented by the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England have thus far failed to generate meaningful improvements in their respective economies. The ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... an unpalatable alternative. So print money it will. And when they do, we'll have a full house - with the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank minting unlimited supplies of US dollars, yens and euros. Gold and other hard commodities would ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... has really changed between its last meeting in August and now? Go on. Think. Harder. A bit more. Voila! It's the Bank of Japan intervening in the currency market because a higher yen is exacerbating Japan's economic malaise. But Tokyo's gains is America's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... mixed US lead. "What has given a little bit of momentum to our market is news in the last 20 minutes or so that the Bank of Japan has intervened to weaken the strengthening yen, which has turned the Nikkei around and we're seeing some really good gains ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Treasuries because "...the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months." The same goes for the Bank of Japan -- maybe worse. The BOJ also kept rates on hold at 0.1 per cent at its 6-7 September meeting. But before that, it called ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... May. The problem now is that Europe's problem will cause more problems in Japan. Recall that just last week the Bank of Japan conducted an emergency meeting to try to stem the yen's rise. Their quantitative easing has just only begun to have its desired ...

Contra confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... number. The US economy remains on track for growth, albeit slower according to the Fed. This is in contrast with the Bank of Japan which only last week upgraded the outlook for the Japanese economy - it's now predicted to expand by 2.6 per cent instead ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... higher yen and slower China manufacturing growth. A better-than-expected survey of domestic corporate sentiment, the Bank of Japan's tankan, initially helped limit declines but this effect faded after data for China's purchasing managers' index, which ...

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