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Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... rating from A-minus to BBB-plus with a negative outlook. And only yesterday, Reuters reported on the 13.1% plunge in Japanese machinery orders - a leading indicator of capital expenditure -- over the month of January. I'm sure we could find more if we ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... next month when the more aggressive Haruhiko Kuroda replaces 'big stimulus' hawk Masaaki Shirakawa at the helm of the Japanese central bank. This has spurred widespread optimism that the sun couldn't help but rise again in 'The Land of the Rising Sun' ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... record-breaking performance on Wall Street, with Tokyo and Sydney both hitting multi-year highs. The stand-out player was Japanese electronics giant Sharp, which surged on reports of a major deal with South Korea's Samsung. Tokyo added 2.13 per cent ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... euro collapse, China hard landing, double-dips, triple dips, 'new normal' (forever slow growth), Jasmine Revolution, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown, debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, sequestration, currency war, actual war (China and Japan sabre ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... announced that, "I would like to make my stance clear that we will do whatever we can do," to end deflation and revive the Japanese economy. Markets now expect that "open-ended" asset purchase programme promised to start next year to be moved forward ...

Time for Japan sceptics to think again

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... believes that the world's third largest economy is finally ready to deliver after two decades of sub-standard returns. Japanese equities have delivered almost 30% since October 2012 but, according to Nikko, investors are still sceptical of the Japanese ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Japanese-based financial services group ORIX Corporation announced today the acquisition of 90.01 per cent of the equities in Robeco from Rabobank for around $2.5 billion. Robeco is a mid-sized global asset manager based in the Netherlands that manages ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... against the yen. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets closed higher, but Tokyo sank on profit-taking and a stronger yen. The Japanese currency picked up after a Group of Seven (G7) statement that said "excessive volatility" in exchange markets hurts financial ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... when Chinese forces crushed pro-democracy protests around Beijing's Tiananmen Square". The Courier Mail adds that, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 also happened in the Year of the Snake and so did "the 1929 stock market plunge that heralded ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... breaking news... "China, Japan on the brink" reports theage.com.au. "Chinese warships have pointed missile radars at Japanese military targets and taken the two regional powers to the brink of "a dangerous situation", say Japanese officials. Yup, it's ...