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Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... intense competition prompts European companies to discount selling prices while at the same time absorbing higher input costs. Japan flash manufacturing PMI There's still no joy for Japan despite the Markit/Nikkei Flash Japan Manufacturing PMI inching ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
Japan external trade Latest trade data out of Japan conflicts with the BOJ's outlook - noted at its policy meeting last week - for "moderate expanding trend" in the economy. Japan registered a ¥40.72 billion deficit in May. While this is an improvement ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... available data show core PCE inflation was at 1.6% in the year to April with the headline PCE at 1.1%. BOJ on hold The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced no change in policy - interest rate at minus 0.1% and target expansion of monetary base at ¥80 trillion ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... Export process contracted for the 21st consecutive month, falling by 4.5% last month following a 5.1% decline in April. Japan industrial production Big deal. Final figures show that Japanese industrial production went up by 0.5% in the month of April ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... on consumer prices going forward and threatening the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) 3.0% inflation target for this year. Japan producer prices As in China, producer prices in Japan remain in deflation, falling by 4.2% in the year to April - the fastest ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... that sales of safes in the last week were two-and-a-half times higher than in the same period a year earlier. The Bank of Japan has for months imposed negative rates for holding bank deposits in an attempt to push lenders to deploy their cash in the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... and the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) by one month but it conveys the same mixed readings on the US labour market. Japan GDP The final estimate of Japan's real GDP showed the economy expanded by 0.5% in the March quarter - up from the preliminary ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... in April, sharply lower than market expectations for an addition of US$18.0 billion and March's US$28.4 billion increase. Japan leading economic index A glimmer of hope? The Cabinet Office reported that Japan's leading economic index rose to a preliminary ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... 3.1% over the year. This compares with 2.0% growth for the US and the UK, 1.5% in the Eurozone and a 0.1% contraction in Japan. This reminded me again of Lloyd Blankfein's -- chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs - comments at a Sydney business ...