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Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda delivered the initial cheer with its announcement of a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... ¥80 trillion annually). And then there's the BOJ's conflicting statements on negative interest rates. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that there is still room for interest rates to go even more negative, the 'Wall Street Journal' reports that Kuroda ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had been a very busy -- or should I say noisy? -- dude all throughout last week as he tries to verbally abuse the yen to its knees. The yen has steadily risen against the greenback since 28 April when the ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... whatever shape for form - when it was widely expected to announce more largesse. Instead, we got BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda doing an impression of ECB president Mario Draghi. "There's absolutely no change to our stance of aiming to achieve two percent ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... and statistics from the Investment Trusts Association of Japan. Incredibly, reports suggest that BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda is considering ramping up the stimulus, with one investment bank predicting investment in ETFs will almost double to ¥7 trillion ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... widely expected with a few expecting an increase in purchases. No one, it seems, expected (even imagined) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda & Co to go negative. Starting 16 February 2016, "The Bank will apply a negative interest rate of minus 0.1 percent to current ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... not until closer to the yuletide on their next meet on 15-16 December. We might get more than a promise from the BOJ's Kuroda though. Deteriorating economic conditions in Japan have bumped up expectations for more policy accommodation even before the ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... should be no ambiguity on the willingness and ability of the Governing Council to act if needed." BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda is scheduled to speak today and more likely than not, he'll be echoing Peter's words. Or perhaps, Kuroda san would simply replace ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... A¥125.86 last Friday, the yen's rebounded and is currently at A¥122.86 - a 2.4% appreciation - after BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda told the Diet - Japanese Parliament - that, "The yen is unlikely to weaken further in real effective terms if you think ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... after comments from the central bank chief that the currency would probably not weaken further. The remarks from Haruhiko Kuroda reversed Wednesday morning gains in the US dollar against the Japanese currency, fuelled by two US reports that gave the ...