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Japanese Yen Strikes Seven-Month Low Amid Stimulus Measure Expectations

Source: International Business Times, Nov 19 2012, 1:09am CST

The dollar touched 81.59 yen Monday as market participants returned to the mood of risk aversion. The relative prospects for monetary policy have been the key drivers of the yen-dollar exchange rate in recent months. Last week, Japan faced a sud ...

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Why Japan Is Bad For The World

Source: Forbes  |   May 19 2013, 1:32pm CDT

Japan continues to be the world’s biggest financial story. The consensus seems to be that the country’s extraordinary economic measures are good for both itself and the world. I’ve detailed previously how Japan’s efforts are likely to have terrible domes ...

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1 hour ago

The Nikkei Is Soaring. Is Now the Time to Buy In?

Source: WalletPop  |   May 19 2013, 12:29pm CDT

After decades of lackluster growth, Japan has had enough. Enter Shinzo Abe. The Japanese prime minister has set the market on fire with infrastructure spending and quantitative easing. The Nikkei is up 70% in the past six months. But is n ...

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25 weeks ago


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"The Bank of Japan could also come under pressure to ease further, particularly from the government. However, financial conditions are already very accommodative and have arguably reached a state of saturation. As such, we doubt the Bank will expand its asset purchase program again this year but instead focus on growth-supporting measures such as the recent cheap loans scheme"


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Japan Discovers QE Has Risks

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 19 2013, 12:01pm CDT

Well, that was fast. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive pro-inflation policy is only a few months old and a fight has erupted over its early effects. And this while there is no economy-wide inflation.On Wednesday, t ...

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BIS and IMF attacks on quantitative easing deeply misguided warn monetarists

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 19 2013, 9:59am CDT

Columbia Professor Michael Woodford, America's leading monetarist, told a London forum recently that the global authorities must not repeat the mistake made by the Bank of Japan when it drained money too fast, thinking th ...

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5 hours ago

Lessons For This Week: Still Safe To Enter This Rally? - Part 2

Source: ETF Investor  |   May 19 2013, 8:10am CDT

The following are the conclusions and lessons garnered from the Part 1 analysis of what was moving all major global asset markets It's a summary of what's really been driving markets and is likely to continue to ...

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7 hours ago

This Is The Chart That Says Japan's Great Economics Experiment Might Be Working

Source: Clusterstock  |   May 19 2013, 6:38am CDT

A big economic story this year has been "Abenomics", Japan's effort to get out of its multi-decade deflationary slump using a combo of monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms. We already know it's ...

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Japan PM vows to seek talks with N. Korea over kidnapping

Source: AlterNet.org  |   May 19 2013, 5:41am CDT

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Tokyo, on May 17, 2013. Abe has vowed to seek talks with Pyongyang in a bid to settle the nagging issue of North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese, with ...

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Japan's economic rebound a recipe for Europe?

Source: EUbusiness  |   May 18 2013, 10:12pm CDT

(PARIS) - The recovery of the Japanese economy, just as a recession in Europe digs in, is renewing pressure on European policymakers to shift course from austerity to stimulus. Data released on Thursday showed Japan's eco ...

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Abe's adviser: Japan will not take action until the abduction issue is solved

Source: SINA English  |   May 18 2013, 9:32pm CDT

BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhuanet) -- An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told DPRK officials during his recent trip to Pyongyang that Japan will not budge an inch until the abduction issue involving Japanese nationals is reso ...

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