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The Bank of Japan is expected to ease monetary policy net week as it strives to limit the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on market volatility and business sentiment, Reuters reports, citing people familiar with the central bankers' thinking. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, Wisd...

Japan announces a second package of measures, amounting to ~$4B in spending to deal with the economic impact of the coronovirus outbreak. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Global news and forex, News o...

Investment thesis: The international environment is, at best, very dicey due to the coronavirus outbreak. China will have weakness in 1Q20; it is increasingly likely that will continue into 2Q20. This will hurt Asia and, to a lesser degree, emerging markets. Data out of the EU shows a very m...

This past week saw a couple of interesting developments. On Wednesday, the Fed released the minutes from their January meeting with comments which largely bypassed overly bullish investors. "… several participants observed that equity, corporate debt, and CRE valuations wer...

The coronavirus spreading across Asia and the world is very likely to hammer Japan and the yen. Some people consider the Japanese yen a "safe-haven" currency where they can safely store their wealth in times of financial turmoil. This flies in the face of reason because Japan is destined to ev...

The world's third largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 6.3% in the last three months of 2019, as a sales tax hike took a bite out of consumer and business spending. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ...

Last week, international markets rebounded after the previous week's coronavirus selloff. Asia and emerging markets were the big winners. Going forward, expect these markets to continue cautiously firming due to the following fundamental developments: supportive central banks, firming manufact...

By James Knightley, Chief International Economist ; Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist ; James Smith, Developed Markets Economist ; Iris Pang, Economist ; Rob Carnell, Chief Economist, Head of Research ; Charlotte de Montpellier, Economist Discover what ING's e...

On the precipice of a new decade, the signs of global recession are getting clearer. The United States is not yet in a textbook definition of a recession yet, being two consecutive quarters of nominal GDP contraction, but by some measures recession is already starting. If we look at real GDP, ...

The Ministry of Finance Japan has released a draft budget for 2020, and that report on the fiscal situation can be found here . It was a stellar report, and I'll summarize my findings in this article and what it means for investors. First, let's focus on the trade and current account defici...