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He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... tries to verbally abuse the yen to its knees. The yen has steadily risen against the greenback since 28 April when the Japanese central bank announced that it would "continue applying a negative interest rate of minus 0.1 percent to the Policy-Rate Balances ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". Japan consumer confidence Japanese consumer confidence posted a 40.8 reading in April - slightly better than market expectations for a 40.7 print but substantially ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... so is compounded by the fact that banks have grown to a disproportionately large weighting in the market. The entire Japanese banking sector value is 20% less than the big four Australian banks together. This, Hofflin argues, is unsustainable. "Put simply ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... takes to achieve this. If needed, we can deepen negative rates much more," Kuroda declared at a news conference after the Japanese central bank's monetary policy meeting held on 27-28 April. But perhaps, financial markets only used the BOJ as an excuse ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... 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 ($38.3 billion) per year. This has seen it become ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... (after weak sales and a poor economy) for why the current period is a bad time to expand." Japan producer prices The Japanese currency's appreciation has consensus predicting another 3.5% year-on-year fall in Japanese producer prices in March. The actual ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... 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 to a year-on-year rate of 2.0% in March from 2.2 in the previous month. This is less than market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... 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 to a year-on-year rate of 2.0% in March from 2.2 in the previous month. This is less than market expectations ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... repatriation, reduced interest rate yield differential, policy impotence... take your pick. The fact remains that the Japanese yen has appreciated - big time - vis-A -vis the US dollar even before 2015 turned into 2016. And this is creating big time ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... lower since hitting a 17-month high in June last year - another indication of the negative impact of the rising yen. The Japanese currency is currently trading at ¥109.72 to a US$. Back in June last year, one greenback could buy more ¥120. The coincident ...