Tag Archive: Bank of Japan
FX Daily, August 04: The BOE Owns Today, but Tomorrow is a Different Story
The Swiss Franc appreciated today against the euro. Given that the Bank of England started monetary easing, this slight appreciation is unexpectedly weak - reason was probably intervention. The SNB intervention level should be around 1 billion francs. Numbers revealed in next week's sight deposits.
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FX Daily, August 03: Consolidation Featured
The US dollar is consolidating yesterday's losses. The greenback's upticks have thus far been shallow and unimpressive, except perhaps against the New Zealand dollar, which is off 0.8% ahead of next week's RBNZ meeting. Softer than expected labor cost increase reinforces the conviction that a 25 bp rate cut will be delivered next week.
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Abe’s Fiscal Policy: More of the Same
Japan's fiscal stimulus if smaller than it appear and is unlikely to boost the economy as much as officials may think. The problem in Japan is not that interest rates are too high or that pubic investment is too weak. The risk is that the yen strengthens further, and we suggest the dollar may fall toward JPY94.60.
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No Big Thoughts, but Several Smaller Observations
Notable that as the CRB Index moves lower, MSCI emerging market equities have done well. European banks are retreating after the stress test results. Tokyo elected its first women governor as this seem to be in part a sign of protest against Abe.
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Fasten Your Seat Belts: Tomorrow Promises to be Tumultuous
Japan reports on labor, consumption, inflation and industrial output before the BOJ meeting. ECB reports inflation and Q2 GDP and the results of the stress test on banks. US reports first look at Q2 GDP.
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Richard Koo: If Helicopter Money Succeeds, It Will Lead To 1,500 percent Inflation
After today's uneventful Fed announcement, all eyes turn to the BOJ where many anticipate some form of "helicopter money" is about to be unveiled in Japan by the world's most experimental central bank. However, as Nomura's Richard Koo warns, central banks may get much more than they bargained for, because helicopter money "probably marks the end of the road for believers in the omnipotence of monetary policy who have continued to press for further...
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FX Daily, July 26: Strange Day: Yen Soars , Swissie Falls
The Swiss Franc strangely depreciated on a day, when the other safe-haven, the yen strongly improved. The euro went up to 1.0899 by 0.54%. The reason seems to be technical.
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FX Weekly Preview: BOJ and FOMC Meetings Featured in the Last Week of July
A recent Reuters poll found about half of the 100 economists surveyed expect a hike in Q4, which really means December since the November meeting is too close to the national election. The other half is split between a Q3 rate hike (September) and some time in 2017. That said, two primary dealers anticipate no hike until the end of 2017.
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The Central Planning Virus Mutates
Readers are probably aware of recent events in Japan, the global laboratory for interventionist experiments. The theories of assorted fiscal and monetary cranks have been implemented in spades for more than a quarter of a century in the country, to appropriately catastrophic effect.
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The Day They Killed the Dollar
LAS VEGAS – It was 113 degrees outside when we rolled through Baker, California, a few days ago. We drove along in comfort, but our sympathies turned to the poor pilgrims who made their way to California in covered wagons. How they must have suffered!
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Bank of Japan: Destination Mars
Asset Price Levitation One of the more preposterous deeds of modern central banking involves creating digital monetary credits from nothing and then using the faux money to purchase stocks. If you’re unfamiliar with this erudite form of monetary policy this may sound rather fantastical.
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FX Daily, July 14: Will BOE Ease on May Day?
After a nearly three weeks of turmoil following the UK referendum, there is now a sense of order returning to UK politics. Two elements of the new government are particularly relevant. First, May demonstrates strategic prowess by putting those like Johnson and Davis, who campaigned for Brexit, to lead the negotiations with the EU, while putting Tories who favored remaining in the EU in the internal ministries.
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“It’s Prohibited By Law” – A Problem Emerges For Japan’s “Helicopter Money” Plans
Over the past four days, risk assets have been on a tear, led by the collapsing Yen and soaring Nikkei, as the market has digested daily news that - as we predicted last week - Bernanke has been urging Japan to become the first developed country to unleash the monetary helicopter, in which the central banks directly funds government fiscal spending, most recently with an overnight report that Bernanke has pushed Abe and Kuroda to sell perpetual...
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Stockman Rages: Ben Bernanke Is “The Most Dangerous Man Walking This Planet”
Ben Bernanke is one of the most dangerous men walking the planet. In this age of central bank domination of economic life he is surely the pied piper of monetary ruin. At least since 2002 he has been talking about “helicopter money” as if a notion which is pure economic quackery actually had some legitimate basis.
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Fearing Confiscation, Japanese Savers Rush To Buy Gold And Store It In Switzerland
Japan has pushed further away from being the nation that embraces "Krugman Era" economics and deeper into the new "Bernanke Era" economics of helicopter money. As a result Japan's citizens have been on a blitz to save what little purchasing power they still possess, before hyperinflation finally arrives.
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Kuroda and the BOJ
Following today's FOMC meeting, the central banks of Japan, Switzerland, and the UK meet tomorrow.
The SNB will keep its powder dry to be able to respond to the results of the UK
referendum if needed. The Bank of England is als...
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FX Weekly Preview: Four Central Bank Meetings and More
A couple of weeks ago, the four
central banks that meet in the coming days were thought to be a big deal. Numerous Federal Reserve officials
were preparing the market for a summer hike. Risks of a new downturn in
Japan spurred spe...
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