Bank of Japan puts off big asset buying until January 2014 temporarily reversing the yen’s decline
Today the Bank of Japan gave in to political pressure and raised its inflation target to 2% from 1% as “recommended” by Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. But the bank delayed a huge program ($146.6 billion a month) of asset purchases until January 2014. Today’s market reaction in Tokyo says investors think the delay is very temporary
I can see the first signs of a return of the euro debt crisis
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India, world’s largest bullion buyer, hikes taxes on gold
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Intel’s PC business continues to struggle (no surprise)–stock drops and sends yield toward 4.3%.
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Today the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China’s GDP grew at a 7.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter. That was up from a 7.4% rate in the third quarter. Economists had speculated that China’s economy had bottomed in September and would show a higher growth rate for the rest of 2012 and into 2013. The fourth quarter results brought the growth rate for 2012 to 7.8%.
Emerging Markets in 2013: Outperformance AND Volatility
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This morning the Labor Department announced that new applications for unemployment fell by 37,000 to 335,000 in the week ended January 12. That’s the lowest number since initial claims in the week ended January 19, 2008. Unfortunately, as a spokesman for the Bureau of Labor Statistics explained when the data was released, the improvement is likely to be a result of problems in adjusting the data for seasonal effects.
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