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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... cues in the wake of the weekend's worse-than-expected trade and inflation data from China and a downward revision to Japanese economic growth in 2013. Tokyo tumbled 2.59 per cent, or 393.72 points to finish at 14,830.39 and Sydney fell 0.55 per cent ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... renewed concerns over China growth... and the recent fall in commodity prices - mainly iron ore and copper -- the risk to Japanese growth after the consumption tax is lifted from 5% to 8% next month, and threatening deflation in the eurozone, among others. ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... turning towards SEA helps explain the 55% increase in merger and acquisitions into the region in 2013 to US$73bn, lead by Japanese investors which accounted for 47% of this activity fueled by cheap debt and low growth prospects at home. US investors ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... there we have it folks, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has responded. The financial presses and commentariats may be calling the Japanese central bank's decision to expand its lending facilities a surprise but we know better, do we not? The BOJ must have read ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... Those who bet the other way - against the yen, that is - also laughed all the way to the bank last year. For in 2013 the Japanese yen dropped by 21.7% against the US dollar, 26.5% versus the euro and 24.5% versus sterling. Why? Because the yen's depreciation ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... noting they are reported as saying they don't intend to issue US bond ratings but to instead focus on Chinese, Russian and Japanese issuance. Meanwhile ARC's founding ratings agencies will continue to work under their own brands in their home markets ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... emerging market volatility doing to the yen? It's sending it up. And what's the higher yen doing? It's putting pressure on Japanese exporters and soon, the Japanese economy and soon, offset the BOJ and Abe's fight against deflation. And don't look ma... ...

China unlikely to achieve 10% growth again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... pick up in its growth." SSGA Chief Economist Christopher Probyn summed up the idea by saying that "the Chinese and the Japanese economy are going to be more of the same, but the European and the US economies will pick up." Australian contributing economics ...

Japan's coming April fools' day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... its slowest growth rate for more than a decade. The losses came after a broadly negative lead from Wall Street, while Japanese gaming giant Nintendo briefly lost almost a fifth of its value following a forecast last week that it would see a net loss ...