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Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... equities are expected to produce a 5.5% unannualised return in US dollar terms through March 2016. "We believe that Abenomics is working well, especially for corporations, with the second quarter pretax profit margins soaring to historic highs for both ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... decades of weak price pressure. Its GDP has been remarkably flat over the next twenty years." However, the introduction of Abenomics and monetary easing has brought to Japan "something of a turnaround in the best managers of Japanese reflation. Normal ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... currency to weaken," Tinker said, adding that this is creating "some long term problems." In Japan, however, "QE under Abenomics is about forcing the long term investor to sell their long term bonds and recycle the funds into the real economy." After ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... 2011/12 to A¥100 following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory at the 16 December 2012 elections (and the birth of 'Abenomics' and the 'three arrows'). The BOJ's decision to increase QE (from A¥60-70 trillion announced in April 2013) to A¥80 trillion ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The global economy will be better this year than last, but troubles in the Eurozone and the waning power of Abenomics mean investors will find better odds in the US and China, chief economists said at a Financial Standard forum last week. The videos ...

Australian ETF Industry achieves $15bn milestone

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2015
... seek investment opportunities offshore despite ongoing fears about the stability of the Eurozone and the success of "Abenomics". According to State Street Global Advisors' Amanda Skelly, this pattern will likely continue in 2015. "Materials and energy ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... "There is a massive unwind with global growth concerns, the US starting to tighten, Europe is in a very bad place and Abenomics (Japan's economic policy) is not working either," he said. The biggest falls are in resources stocks, with oil prices tumbling ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Despite market optimism over 'Abenomics' and widespread expectations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would eventually announce further expansion of monetary policy, Japan's stock market continues to trend lower. The Nikkei-225 index has sunk by 11.4% so ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... consumer prices turned from negative to zero back in May last year and was up by 1.1% as at December. All because of 'Abenomics' and the three arrows - fiscal stimulus, monetary stimulus and economic restructuring -- designed to lift the country's growth ...

Watch central banks closely, warns Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... anticipate a relatively benign growth environment, with continued momentum in the US, a modest acceleration in Europe and an 'Abenomics'-driven recovery in Japan, offsetting China's slower growth trajectory." The group's global head of alternatives ...