Taking profits in Toyota as global fears drive safe-haven yen higher
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...Japanese economy grew by 2.4% in first quarter
Japan’s economy grew at a 2.4% rate in the first quarter of 2015, the Japanese government reported today. That’s a very welcome continuation of the recovery from the recession that hit the country in the middle of 2014.
Dollar bounces after 3-week decline, oil falls
The U.S. dollar is up today to end a decline that stretched back to April 14. In that period the Dollar Index (DXY) has dropped 4.2%
Bank of Japan pushes out inflation goal, says current stimulus is enough
Faced with evidence that the country will miss its target of 2% inflation this year, today (April 30) Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda said no further easing of monetary policy was needed.
Japan looks like it has lost its stimulus nerve–again
Growth is falling; inflation forecasts are down, but the Bank of Japan seems likely to do nothing to increase asset purchases or stimulus
An apparently unstoppable U.S. dollar is driving financial markets today
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...S&P 500 drops back into red for 2015: It sure looks like volatility is back
Greece. EuroZone deflation. A slowing economy in China. An uncertain calendar at the Federal Reserve. In February the U.S. market was willing to look past all these and other issues. In March they’ve moved to the top of mind again
Are we about to see a race to the bottom between the euro and the yen?
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...Time to add Tokyo real estate through a newish ETF
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...Today’s the day the bears are having their picnic
Take last week’s fears that the drop in oil prices was a sign of a slowdown in global growth and add a plunge in the ruble and you’ve got a market where the bears feel free to roam.
Abe gets his mandate in Japan–but what’s it for?
Yesterday Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party cruised to victory taking 290 of 475 seat in the lower house of Parliament. But most Japanese don’t think the election was about much. Turnout dropped to a record low of 52.3%
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