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Lifted by external demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... contributed the most to growth, adding 0.2 percentage point to Q4 GDP. It added 0.3 percentage point in Q3. Not surprising, the yen's depreciation and the improvement in the global economy have been the major factors behind the growth in external demand. ...

Little pay, little spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... contract - down 0.4% in the year to December from no growth in the previous month. Needless to say, the BOJ would keep relying on yen weakness to support growth. But this is starting to run into Trump trouble.

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... target at around zero and JGB purchases "at more or less the current pace -- an annual pace of increase of about 80 trillion yen". "The Policy Board also decided, by a unanimous vote, to extend by one year the deadlines for new applications for such ...

Sunrise sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... expectations index" hitting a 44-month high This obviously is a function of improved growth in its trading partners and the yen's depreciation. Sunset. Domestic demand remains weak (or is weakening again). After surging by 1.7% in the year to November ...

Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... 1.4% in October. However, there's still a bit of sunshine in the report in that the latest stats occurred when the Japanese yen was trading as high as 100 to a dollar. The yen's depreciation since Trump - currently trading at 114.17 -- should underpin ...

Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... growth should remain in the 1.5% to 2% range. He says Japan's economy will grow as exporters and manufacturers benefit from yen weakness. He adds global interest rates have risen sharply since the US election accelerating a trend that began in the third ...

Sun rising in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... 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. This is sharply above market expectations for an improvement to 41.3 and is the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... billion, respectively. As for CP and corporate bonds, the Bank will maintain their amounts outstanding at about 2.2 trillion yen and about 3.2 trillion yen respectively."

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... Trump has declared many times that China is a currency manipulator. Trump could to say the same thing about the euro, the yen, the A$ and other currencies once he looks beyond China and sees that the US dollar has risen against them. War here we come... ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... rate hikes next year would just put greater upward pressure on the US dollar against not only the yuan but also the euro, the yen, the A-dollar, the Mexican peso, the... "...it just doesn't work, folks."