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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... on Tuesday, with Tokyo clawing back some ground in choppy trade following sharp declines in recent sessions as a stronger yen prompted a bout of profit-taking. Tokyo swung between positive and negative territory in a volatile session before closing up ...

Empty orchestra

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... raised. And remember the beginning of 2013? The time when Japan's Economy minister Akira Amari told Reuters that, "If the yen excessively weakens, this would cause a spike in import prices... and while "it would be a benefit for exports, but would have ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... KONG - Most Asian stock markets recovered some equilibrium but Tokyo slumped 3.22 per cent on profit-taking and a stronger yen while comments by President Xi Jinping fuelled concerns about the slowing Chinese economy. The Nikkei 225 index lost 469.8 ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... quite cheap," he said "Profits are going to go up unbelievably. I don't think people fully believe what profits can do at 102 yen to the dollar." According to recent figures, the MSCI Japan is up 45.7% in the year to 30 April 2013, however translated ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... on the Nikkei's head. There were those "interpretations" of Fedspeak of QE rollback "in the next few meetings". There's the yen rebound and lower-than-expected China manufacturing PMI - not good for exports. There was the spike in 10-year JGB yields ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... Federal Reserve chief, but Tokyo stocks finished at their highest level in five years. Japanese investors welcomed the weakening yen on Wednesday, with stocks ending up 1.60 per cent, or 246.24 points, at 15,627.26, the best finish since late December ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... tapering stimulus as early as next month. Since the start of the year, the US dollar has strengthened by 15.7% against the yen, 6.5% against the pound and 2.8% against the euro. The A$ cross rates confirm this. Against the yen, the pound and the euro ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... ministers met to discuss ways to clamp down on tax fraud, while the euro and US dollar hit fresh multi-year highs versus the yen. At the close on Monday, London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares gained 0.10 per cent to 6,631.76 points. Frankfurt's DAX ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... unwinding QE3 sooner rather than later. At the end of last week, the US dollar rose to a four-year high against the Japanese yen, one-month highs against the euro and the New Zealand dollar (helped by RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler's confession that the ...