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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."

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... 2.6% versus the greenback this year to date (it was up 2.5% pre-Trump) and at the close of last week's trade the Japanese yen's strength against the US dollar has weakened to 8.5% (year-to-date) from 16.7% the week before Trump became US president-elect. ...

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... November as investors looked for safer assets," he said. Investors also scrambled for "core" government bonds, gold and the Yen," he said, a trend that could continue in the next few weeks. For self-funded retirees, there's more bad news: Trump's win ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... increase. While the dollar is up against emerging market currencies it has given back much of its past gains against the Euro and Yen," he said. Flanders told the ASFA conference: "Low inflation and super-loose monetary policy will continue to support ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" announced this month, the on-going strength in the Japanese yen provides indication that this new initiative is, at the very least, insufficient.