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Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... versus the euro to advance 0.3 percent to $1.3921 against the shared currency. The dollar strengthened 0.3 percent to 81.35 yen after reaching a 15-year low yesterday." Yes, and this happened simultaneous with a positive performance on Wall Street. This ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... competitive. It fell to its lowest level since the start of the year against the euro, it traded at its April 1995 lows against the yen and our very own Aussie dollar managed a flitting kiss with parity against the greenback. According to reports, it ...

Going global with Threadneedle

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... local currency you are going to be worse off investing internationally. I mean quite clearly an example of this would be the Yen, which provided a constant headwind for Japanese exporters over the past 15 to 20 years," Jeremy Podger, head of global equities ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... on China and its undervalued currency. Japan's snipers are aimed at America and the Eurozone as it tries to take down the yen against the US dollar and the euro. Emerging nations are engaging in guerrilla tactics in order not to give ground to "the enemies". ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... government's coffers. Japan's Finance Ministry estimates that the increased tax on tobacco would raise about 1.97 trillion yen (US$23.5 billion) in government revenues in the current fiscal year. But like the pleasure, the high derive from smoking, this ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... economies. China refuses to revalue its currency. Japan recently intervened in the foreign exchange market to devalue the yen and promised more - an action that only encourages China to stay the course. Both actions are causing distaste among Europeans ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... and now? Go on. Think. Harder. A bit more. Voila! It's the Bank of Japan intervening in the currency market because a higher yen is exacerbating Japan's economic malaise. But Tokyo's gains is America's loss. Yen depreciates, US dollar rises. Tokyo sells ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... currency debasement, analysts say. After six years of abstinence, the Japanese Ministry of Finance succumbed to the rising Yen, intervening in currency markets on Wednesday. "There is a concern that what we saw from Japan will set off a precedent for ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010