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Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... 5% on the TWI. In comparison, the British pound has risen not as much (up 5.5 %) against the US dollar while the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan have appreciated by 5.2% and 3.4%, respectively. Although it still has scope to lower borrowing costs (if ...

Altius flags key appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... owned by Australian Unity as of January, flagged two senior appointments and an open position in a June fund update. First, Yen Wong has joined Altius as head of credit research. She was previously deputy head of global credit research, responsible investment ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... elections: it fell by 1.6% versus the US dollar; it went down by 1.3% against the euro and by 1.1% vis-a-vis the Japanese yen. It wasn't all bad news though. The FTSE 100 index rose by 1.0% the day after the elections, for a 5.4% gain this year to 9 ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
No news, it appears, is good news for Japan. The country's stock market and the yen have been heading in the right direction ever since the nuclear threat tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea was taken off the headlines. The Nikkei-225 index has ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... news. Japanese exports have been on an uptrend since the 14.0% drop recorded back in July last year, supported by the weaker yen and the general improvement in Japan's trading partners. The better news is the 15.8% jump in imports. Although this would ...

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 ...