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AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2006
... 61.43 points, up 80.12 points from a week ago. TOKYO - The Nikkei share average ended up half a per cent as the Bank of Japan's decision to end its ultra-easy monetary policy underscored optimism about the economic recovery, but data showing weaker-than-expected ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2006
... CAC-40 index closed at 5007.84, up 38.33 points. TOKYO - The Nikkei average rose more than 2.5 per cent after the Bank of Japan decided to end its five-year-old experiment with ultra-loose monetary policy, putting an end to weeks of market uncertainty. ...

Daily economic update

... central bank should remove the zero interest rate policy as it sees fit. This reverses earlier jawboning urging the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to keep policy unchanged removing a major hurdle for the BoJ. Latest activity figures also back up this view with ...

Daily economic update

... while domestic interest rates are seen to remain stable in the near term, there is growing speculation that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is about to put an end to its zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) - which has been in effect since 2001 -- very soon. Speculation ...

Weekly economic round-up

... the outlook for the domestic economy and the future of interest rates. Overseas, both the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan also left their respective key interest rate unchanged as expected. Apart from the RBA's statement on monetary policy, this ...

Daily economic update

... could be sustained given the softening domestic labour market. Overseas, both the Bank of England (BOE) and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) left their respective key interest rate unchanged as expected. The BOE left interest rates unchanged at 4.5 per cent as ...

Weekly economic round-up

... release include December updates on US consumer prices, industrial production and capacity utilisation. Although the Bank of Japan is still not expected to move on interest rates, investors will pay close attention to the central bank's two day monetary ...

Market wrap

... to a new five-year closing high as investors bought steel and metal stocks, but gains were capped ahead of a key Bank of Japan corporate sentiment survey. The Nikkei gained 40.16 points to 15,778.86, the highest close since October 2000. HONG KONG - ...

Daily Economic Update

... Bank, which raised interest rates last night to 2.25 per cent - the first interest rate hike since October 2000. The Bank of Japan had also been sending out rhetoric that it might be soon ending its zero interest rate policy.

Weekly Economic Roundup

... Japan, the October CPI report should give investors clues on whether deflation in the country is really easing as the Bank of Japan claims.