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Chief economist update: Japan to double down on stimulus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
It won't be long now until cherry blossoms start blooming in Japan. But just like these blossoms' short-lived wonder, the Land of the Rising Sun's economic recovery through various crises going back to the late 1980s-early 1990s proved to ...

Chief economist update: Japan economy tanks depsite looser restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... won't take action to prop up prices". The BOJ kept monetary policy settings unchanged - target rate at -0.1% and 10-year JGB yield target at zero - at its 14-15 July meeting. While sitting BOJ Governor and the Policy Board pledged that they will ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... ¥2 trillion in total to ¥3.2 trillion and ¥4.2 trillion, respectively. At its April meeting, the BOJ removed the limit on JGB purchases so that 10-year yields will remain at 0%, and increased its purchases of corporate debt to ¥20 trillion from around ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) added another monetary policy term to our vocabulary at its March 2020 meeting - Enhancement of Monetary Easing - as it tries to limit the economic fallout from the coronavirus. It had the same label for its expanded policy initiative ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus cures climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
Friday the 13th isn't so unlucky after all as it turned out to be a rally day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index surged by 9.3% while the Dow and the Nasdaq pole-vaulted by 9.4% the day after US President Trump's declaration of a national emergency ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
Coronaphobia - the "irrational fear" of getting infected with the coronavirus. Numerous medical experts have offered calming and logical prognoses for the epidemic but these two words - irrational and fear - would be, in a manner of speaking, the death ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" - Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass' The "Red Queen" in the novel ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... in September of the same year, the BOJ announced: "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain more or less at the current level (around zero percent)". Safe-haven yen purchases, resulting from current ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
Speculation may be mounting over one or two Fed rate cuts (one, two or three for the RBA) going forward, but there are no such similar expectations for the Bank of Japan (BOJ). With the BOJ's policy rate currently at negative 0.1% and its "yield ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Inflation is dead! Bond markets celebrate! News headlines have picked up on the fall and fall in the yield offered by 10-year US Treasuries. The yield closed at 2.24% overnight, down from 2.26% the day before - the lowest since September 2017. But the ...
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