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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... minus 4.4 from minus 2.6 in July while services sentiment fell to a reading of 10 in August from 11.2 in the previous month. Japan industrial production Disappointing industrial production growth numbers add to the disappointing inflation and consumer ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... inflation rate - the Fed's favoured inflation measure - remained stuck at 1.6%, where it had been since March this year. Japan CPI inflation Deflation still rules in Japan. Headline consumer prices fell by 0.4% in the year to July, the same rate in May ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... confidence indicator for the European Union (EU) as a whole dipped by 0.1 point to minus 7.8 in August from minus 7.7 in July. Japan leading economic indicator A little bit of sunshine in Japan. The final estimate of the country's leading index increased ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... faster rate in July "continuing the trend of falling prices seen over much of the past five years". Markit/Nikkei flash Japan manufacturing PMI Thank goodness for small mercies. According to Markit/Nikkei's latest survey, Japan's manufacturing sector ...

Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... 2013, reflecting subdued profit expansion, partly due to the impact of a strong dollar. Total dividends Asia Pacific ex Japan dividends of US$36.9 billion ($48.6billion) were 12.2% higher year on year, and were boosted by some large timing effects in ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Japan must look to a combination of fiscal and monetary policy if it wishes to achieve the structural reform as set out in the third arrow of Abenomics, according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... years has been 7.75%. Grow says the return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can be made for bond prices rising further still. "The bull case for global ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... Disappointing Japanese economic growth figures have all but cemented expectations for more policy easing from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) come September. Preliminary estimates showed that real GDP produced no growth in the three months to June. This is a ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ultimately the US after the election, I think we should be investing in real assets as opposed to financial assets". ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... in that index," Slater said. Another consistent outperformer for the fund has been Tokyo property developer Open House. "Japan has been out of fashion for so long after its awful 1980s property bubble, but Tokyo has been growing steadily at the expense ...