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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... decline and an improvement from the previous month's 0.9% drop. UK producer prices have been in deflation since July 2014. Japan GDP Preliminary estimates show the Japanese economy once more dodged falling into a technical recession with real GDP expanding ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... agency - now expects 2016 GDP growth of 3.0%-3.5%, tighter but hardly different from its February projection of 2.8%-3.8%. Japan machine tool orders There's still little good news out of Japan. Latest stats show machine tool orders dropped by 26.4% in ...

BetaShares launches hedged Europe and Japan ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Japanese equity ETFs on the ASX. BetaShares WisdomTree Europe ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HEUR) and BetaShares WisdomTree Japan ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HJPN) provide access to strategies used by existing WisdomTree ETFs, which have proven to be some ...

Bank love affair with wealth management waning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... number of wealth management arms. Recently National Australia Bank (NAB) sold 80% of its MLC life insurance business to Japan's Nippon Life for $2.4 billion. This was followed by its demerger with Clydesdale in the UK early in 2016, a decision driven ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had been a very busy -- or should I say noisy? -- dude all throughout last week as he tries to verbally abuse the yen to its knees. The yen has steadily risen against the greenback since 28 April when the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". Japan consumer confidence Japanese consumer confidence posted a 40.8 reading in April - slightly better than market expectations ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... the UK(-1.9%), Germany(-1.7%) and France(-2.9%) ended down. Investors also received the "sell in May" memo in our region: Japan's down 3.4%; Hong Kong's down 4.5%; China's down 0.9%; Singapore's down 3.8%; South Korea's down 0.9%. Was it the Federal ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
As the valuations of residential property and bank stocks have risen, so too has the risk that they will face a snap-back that could trigger a recession in the Australian economy, according to Lazard Asset Management. "House prices in Australia are ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... raison d'Aatre, the source of angst, the trigger for the sell orders all pointed to the disappointment over the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) failure to provide more policy stimulation - in whatever shape for form - when it was widely expected to announce more ...

Asia Funds Passport signed off

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... and Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, has signed the Asia Region Funds Passport's Memorandum of Co-operation (MoC) with Japan, Korea and New Zealand. The Passport will facilitate the cross border offering of eligible collective investment schemes while ...