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Sun rising in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The sun appears to be rising in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japanese consumer confidence rose to a reading of 43.1 in December from 40.9 in the previous month supported by a rally in the stock market and the yen's depreciation versus the US dollar. ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... domestic economy needs to get it out of the third quarter funk. The exact same thing the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are trying to engineer with their own legal tenders. A trip down memory lane shows how the dollar-A's depreciation deflected ...

CSC contributes to global ESG think tank

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation recently formed part of a powerful asset owner think tank in Japan, discussing best practice in ESG investment and portfolio management. The Global Asset Owners' Forum, organised by the Japanese Government ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... condominiums up by 10.0%. The average selling price gained by 0.3% in the month of November and 6.8% over the year to US$234,900. Japan trade balance Japan's trade surplus narrowed to ¥153.0 billion in November from ¥496.2 billion in the previous month. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... were lower. This is the highest reading since September last year and an improvement from the previous month's 26 reading. Japan monetary policy decision As was widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged minus ...

Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... transparent vehicles for their fixed income exposure. Only four of the major categories experienced outflows - European, Japan, China and Asia ex-Japan equity ETFs."

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone (never mind what's happening in Europe and Japan) sent financial markets - equity, bond, commodity and currency - into a tailspin. It wasn't a happy New Year welcome to 2016. ...

CBA finances wind farm construction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... wind farms. The bank is co-financing the project with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, CWP Renewables, Partners Group, Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Denmark's export credit agency EKF to build the Sapphire Wind Farm in the Great ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... US Treasuries, bond yields are still lower than they were at the start of 2016 - Euro (down 33 bps), UK (down 0.71 bps), Japan (down 0.20) and Australia (down 2 bps). But having said that, the trend in bond yields has clearly reversed from down to up. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... this month, chances are auto purchases would stall as what happened when America's 'cash for clunkers" programme was ended. Japan machinery orders Japan's Cabinet Office reports that core machinery orders -- private-sector machinery orders, excluding ...