A Special Report: My 10 big picture trends for 2014
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Tomorrow it’s the Bank of Japan’s turn–with the odds favoring more stimulus and a weaker yen
The Bank of Japan starts a two-day meeting tomorrow with traders betting that more stimulus is on the agenda
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Weak yen bets rise to highest level since 2007
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Bank of Japan promises to stay the quantitative easing course
Japan can have it all—a weaker yen, a growing economy, inflation of 2% and a sales tax increase to demonstrate fiscal responsibility. Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda said so. That’s what the financial markets in Japan wanted to hear. Especially since the Bank of Japan ended a two-day meeting saying that it remained pledged to doubling the country’s monetary base.
Industrial production falls in Japan; stocks climb in Tokyo
Industrial production fell in June by 3.3% from May, the Japanese Trade Ministry announced today. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected a 1.5% drop. On the news the yen fell to 98.13 against the dollar and Tokyo stocks rallied
Japan’s big sell off on Friday overstated the strength of June’s inflation numbers
Friday news that Japan, the home of deflation, deflation, and more deflation, had turned in its highest rate of inflation in five years in June sent stocks in Tokyo down 2.97%. Here’s why good news was bad news and why, I think, the market over-reacted.
On the news the Nikkei 225 dropped 2.97% in Tokyo for Friday’s session.