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Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... improvement (and after more than one year of QQE2), confidence remains far below the levels reached after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed leadership back in December 2012 and those following the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) launch of QQE. The slight improvement ...

Japan pension fund backs responsible investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) after a recent UN assembly meeting. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) would sign on in a move that "will surely contribute to ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... that had fallen over the last two decades have started to increase, a sign that the measures pushed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and implemented by Japan's Central Bank are beginning to make progress. While some would say that Japan's economic transition ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... yen has depreciated sharply from around the mid-A¥70's to a greenback in 2011/12 to A¥100 following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory at the 16 December 2012 elections (and the birth of 'Abenomics' and the 'three arrows'). The BOJ's decision to increase ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... - it's fourth in six years. Given this latest development, Japan could have a new king by next month if sitting PM Shinzo Abe makes good on speculations that he's about to call for snap elections. But what good would a change of face do if that fresh ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... giant. Japanese shares extended their run upwards thanks to the weaker yen, with attention turning to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as speculation swirls that he may put off a planned sales tax hike and call a snap general election. Tokyo jumped per cent ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... Xi Jinping and US president Barrack Obama at the APEC summit or his handshake connect with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Ahh yes, Virginia, you know where I'm going with this don't you? It's the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect. We've been waiting ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... currently trading around 0.56% -- that's down from 0.74% at the start of 2014 and down from 0.78% on 26 December 2012 when Shinzo Abe assumed prime ministership of Japan. It's not that easy anymore, since the BOJ has dirtied the bond market waters with ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... Especially, because the Japanese equity market had mainly been reacting to the Japanese currency's ups and downs since Shinzo Abe was re-elected Japanese prime minister on December 2012 and the BOJ announced its QE policy in April last year. The Nikkei-225 ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... restructuring -- designed to lift the country's growth and inflation at the same time. First arrow. Less than a month after Shinzo Abe san was elected PM in December 2012, he announced stimulus measures totalling around A¥10.3 trillion (was worth around ...