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Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Japanese officials and investors must be wiping the sweats from their foreheads after the Cabinet Office released its latest National Accounts report and showed the country dodged a recession. Japanese GDP grew 0.3% in the December 2018 quarter following ...

Chief economist update: Japan's core strengthens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
When Japan's Cabinet Office revised it GDP growth estimate higher from the preliminary estimate of 0.5% to 0.7% in the June quarter, it also reported that capital expenditure provided the highest contribution to growth (0.5 percentage points) over ...

Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Japan's economy grew 0.7% in the June quarter after contracting 0.2% in the March quarter. This is stronger than the Cabinet Office's preliminary estimate of 0.5% and is the fastest growth rate since the first quarter of last year (0.7%). This ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Instead of reversing, the yen continued to climb after Japan's Cabinet Office released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. ...

ANZ appoints wealth CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... roles, having most recently delivered the new National Cyber Security Strategy to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and formerly served as chief information security officer for the Department of Defence. Connick is charged with overseeing ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... November's 9.4% drop with a 3.5% gain in December. All good... if the latest monthly gains persist. But Japan's Cabinet Office thinks it won't, noting that the pick-up in orders was stalling. According to the Cabinet Office, "In the January-March period ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... would stall as what happened when America's 'cash for clunkers" programme was ended. Japan machinery orders Japan's Cabinet Office reports that core machinery orders -- private-sector machinery orders, excluding volatile ones for ships and those from ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... period versus a 1.5% increase in the year to August and expectations for a 1.0% expansion. Japan machinery orders Cabinet Office data shows that core machinery orders - ex ships and electric power utilities - decreased by 2.2% in the month of August. ...

Capital Group reappoints former exec

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... macroeconomic team. Most recently Thawley was secretary of the Australian government's Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) from 2014 until January 2016. Prior to this he held a number of roles with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs ...

PROFILE: Metlife chief executive Deanne Stewart

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... company culture and ensuring that culture is instilled in the behaviour from the CEO down, not just in a dusty filing cabinet. "When it comes to peoples conduct, which is what I would call the real culture, that often comes from the top. So not the culture ...