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Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... momentum as shown in the June quarter national accounts. This could be the reason why unlike China, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a different posture against Trump. According to Bloomberg: "In his first policy speech since President Donald Trump ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Washington to meet with the US president about North Korea and trade. Early reports were encouraging with Trump ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
Everything that could go right is going right for Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won by landslide at the 22 October 2017 general elections, ensuring that sitting Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda will be re-appointed when his term expires ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... with policy unchanged and stimulation to remain until inflation meets 2% target. This was assured by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide victory in the recent elections that, in turn, guaranteed BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's continuity at the helm ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... to exit from Spain scuttled by Madrid suspending Catalan's autonomy; there's the Japanese elections where sitting PM Shinzo Abe won by landslide (Abenomics lives on); and closer to home, New Zealand's election stalemate ended with the opposition Labor ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... since the period between the March 2005 and June 2006 quarters. Underlying all these is optimism that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will win the 22 October general elections and hence, the continuation of "Abenomics" - the ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... Japan, whose negative interest rate policy proved unpopular, was at the head of the pack; last month Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved a fiscal package of over ¥28 trillion ($362 billion) which equates to 5.5% of the country's GDP. "While ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... Suga said in an interview Saturday in Tokyo. Pressure for a stimulus package has stepped up following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide Upper House election victory two weeks ago. The landslide win was the first election with the newly lowered voting ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... on the full reduction in May. Japan retail sales The latest retail spending figures perhaps explain Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's flip-flopping over the consumption tax increase scheduled for April next year. The consumption tax increase from 8% to 10% ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... of the policy are twofold: help Japan's deflation busting quantitative easing programme and further Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth programme by investing in companies that increase workers' wages and capital expenditure. The BOJ is restricted to ...