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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... September. The euro slid to $US1.2430 from $US1.2456 late in New York on Friday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed, with Japanese shares succumbing to profit-taking but Hong Kong and Shanghai rallying after a date was announced for a trading link ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... it would expand its vast monetary easing scheme and the United States released forecast-busting economic growth data. Japanese stocks clocked up gains of almost five per cent to sit at a seven-year high after the Bank of Japan announced its surprise ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even a full month before (7 October), in its monetary policy statement, the Japanese central bank told you, I and Irene that, "Japan's economy is expected to continue its moderate recovery trend, and the ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... weakest German investor confidence in two years and Chinese factory-gate prices dropping for a record-tying 31st month. "Japanese industrial production tumbled 3.3 percent from a year ago and U.K. inflation unexpectedly plunged to its lowest in five ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... further monetary easing in the eurozone pushed the euro lower, while the US dollar gave up some of its US gains in early Japanese trade. Tokyo - which surged almost four per cent on Monday before losing 2 per cent on Tuesday - jumped 2.64 per cent, or ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... Ebola - plus tighter fiscal budgets equals, more weakness. We've also been warning - you and I, Virginia - about the Japanese economy (that it wasn't a good idea) months before the government raised the consumption tax from 5% to 8% back in April because ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... day as a pro-democracy protest showed no signs of abating and a gauge of Chinese manufacturing came in below forecast. Japanese shares were hit by a surprise fall in factory output while the yen edged up against the US dollar. Hong Kong sank 1.28 per ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... be on the brink... the brink of adding more juice into the system. In its monthly economic report for September, the Japanese government downgraded its overall assessment of the economy - the first in five months. It now talks of "moderate recovery ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... and the benchmark Nikkei-225 index is down 1.4% to date. Perhaps, this is because everyone is on wait mode - even the Japanese government and even the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - waiting to see how the "three arrows" versus the consumption tax hike (raised ...

A tale of two A's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... 2014, following sales in the previous two years" with "Australia's second-largest lender Westpac Banking Corp. predicts Japanese demand will continue, with investors adding to purchases of sovereign securities made in July..." But having said this, this ...