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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 ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... the year to December from 0.1% in the previous month. There's also the wealth effect from the rising stock market. The Nikkei-225 index has gained 19.1% in 2017 that followed a paltry 0.4% gain in 2016. Tokyo's equity market continued to rise this year ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... the west, he's embraced John Maynard Keynes' prescription, using government spending to "build, build, and build." The Nikkei Asian Review reports that, "At the core of Dutertenomics is an unprecedented plan to spend 8.4 trillion pesos on dozens of ambitious ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... 0%; and, asset purchases at annual pace of about ¥80 trillion. With so much liquidity sloshing around the system, the Nikkei-225 index jumped 1.3% to close at its highest level - 24,124.15 points - in 26 years despite the yen's advance to a ¥110.41 ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... strengthen in anticipation of some withdrawal of stimulus from the BOJ. The stronger yen would precipitate a correction in the Nikkei-225 index, erode Japanese exporters' competitiveness, reducing export earnings and, more importantly, place renewed ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... highs; so has the FTSE-100 index (+0.47%); the All Ordinaries Index soared to its highest level in a decade (+1.0%); the Nikkei-225 to its best in more than a quarter of a century (+4.2%). While the Eurozone's major equity market benchmark - the Stoxx ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, And I say it's all right..." - The Beatles The rally that propelled the Nikkei-225 index to its highest level last week lingers. On 11 October, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by a mere 0.28% but its ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... states" and "firms expect a significant improvement in business sentiment in Q3." Indications provided by the latest Markit/Nikkei PMI surveys suggest that these may be on the way. The Nikkei India Composite PMI Output Index returned to expansion in ...