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Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... index is up 12.6% this year to date; the Stoxx-50 index is up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. This makes perfect sense, especially given bond yields ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... above the target in a stable manner."" This is because of the negative consequences - the Japanese yen appreciated, the Nikkei-225 index fell, and the yield on 10-year JGBs rose - these speculations ignited and their impact on Japan's economic growth ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... become a little bit more challenging for the Japanese central bank since its last meet on September 19. That time, the Nikkei-225 index was up by 4.9% (year-to-date) and the yen has weakened by 0.4% versus the greenback. The benchmark index has dropped ...

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 ...