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Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... counterparts, dropping by 1.2%. This compares with losses of: 0.9% for the S&P 500; 1.1% for the Euro Stoxx 50 and 0.6% for the Nikkei 225. This could be because the jump in US bond yields would hasten the BOE's rate hikes. Not least because of bank's ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... beneficiaries of this thawing in trade tensions. As a result, the Topix produced the biggest gain of 4.4% last week and the Nikkei-225 index (up 3.4%) jumped to an eight-month high. Japan's equity market has also benefitted from recent developments pointing ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... days but the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) "tweaking" of monetary appears to have done nothing significant for the yen and the Nikkei-225 so far. At the conclusion of its July 30-31 monetary policy meeting - where it kept current monetary policy settings ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... equities' outsized weighting in the MSCI index (around 54%). The Stoxx-50 index (-3.7%), the FTSE-100 (-1.7%) and the Nikkei-225 (-2.2%) are all down this year to date. The sharp depreciation in many emerging market currencies - notably the Turkish ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... reaction). The Japanese yen rose to ¥111.25 (from ¥111.41 last Friday) but not before reaching a high of ¥110.75 and the Nikkei-225 index dropped by 1.3%. If I remember correctly, it was only about three months ago that the BOJ dropped the timing ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... would further energise the renewed strength in Tokyo's stockmarket. As at yesterday's closing of 22,823.26 points, the Nikkei-225 index has already climbed by 10.7% from this year's low of 20,617.86 points recorded in late March, supported by the 4.7% ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... markets up in the week ended 11 May 2018 - S&P 500 up 2.4%; Shanghai composite up 2.3%; FTSE-100 up 2.1%; German Dax up 1.4%; Nikkei-225 up 1.3%; All Ords up 1.0%. This optimism was replaced with renewed geo-political concerns. The US-China trade deal ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... it doesn't repeat the history of its last longest expansion in 1989 - the one which after the end of that year, the Nikkei-225 index peaked and collapsed and property prices dropped by as much as 70%... and was followed by decades of growth bouncing ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... (sell in May and go away). The S&P 500 index is down 3.2% this year to 23 March; the All Ords index is 3.9% lower; the Nikkei-225 index is down 9.4%; the Shanghai composite index has lost 4.7%; the FTSE-100 index has dropped 10% and the Stoxx-50 is 5.9% ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... nominal terms and by 2.4% in real terms (i.e. adjusted for inflation). These indicators and the positive lead from the Markit/Nikkei PMI surveys - the composite index marked its 17th month of expansion in January - show that the Japanese economy is well ...