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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... it has traded between a low of 100.38 US cents and a high of 100.70 US cents. At 1110 (AEDT), it was reported the Bank of Japan had injected Y2 trillion ($A24.53 billion) into the money market, as it continued its emergency fund provision following a ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... The United Nations has taken charge of the situation in the MENA region by bombing Qaddafi. On top of these, the Bank of Japan is now adding more liquidity to the financial system. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Japan's central bank has offered ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... 24 years as crews struggled to prevent a catastrophe at the troubled Fukushima plant northeast of Tokyo. And the Bank of Japan pumped Y3.5 trillion ($A43.81 billion) into the financial system, after offering eight trillion in same day funds Tuesday and ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... billion yen - has now become moot. Government and opposition now are one in increasing fiscal spending. So is the Bank of Japan. Yesterday, it injected 15 trillion yen into the financial system with another 3 trillion yen to come tomorrow. A total of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Japan battered investor confidence. The Australian bourse managed to claw back some of its earlier losses after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) injected $181 billion into that country's money markets to keep the economy moving following the devastating tsunami ...

Fund managers eye 'cheap' Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... leading some fund managers to believe that the time is now to invest in Japan. In contrast to the rest of Asia, the Bank of Japan will likely act to generate inflation at some point, while many tip the Yen to fall, which may prompt a lift in equity prices. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... 10,746.67, helped by a weaker yen, which tends to boost the value of Japanese exporters. Tokyo dealers welcomed the Bank of Japan's upgrading of the nation's economy for the first time in nine months. The BoJ held interest rates between zero and 0.1 ...

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 ...