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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.5% and announced its exit plan from quantitative easing at Tuesday's...
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We expect Japan's fiscal outlook to deteriorate due to weak economic growth and pressure on the government to implement fiscal...
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We recently created a heatmap of daily and weekly data to gauge how the US economy is fairing in real...
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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.5% at Thursday's meeting. Considering the significant downgrading of growth and...
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We've cut our GDP growth forecasts for Japan by 0.2ppts to 0.8% in 2025 and by 0.4ppts to 0.2% in...
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There are no absolute winners in a trade war, but some will fare relatively better than others.
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept its policy rate at 0.50% at Wednesday's meeting, as expected. Despite a marginally higher...
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We have revised our CPI forecast upwards for this year and next, due to more persistent supply side-driven food inflation,...
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The resilience of consumption is essential to support sustained wage-driven inflation and the Bank of Japan's rate hikes. We see...
Rising wage costs have been increasingly squeezing the already low profitability of small firms in Japan, thereby raising concerns about...
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The Bank of Japan raised the policy rate by 0.25ppts to 0.5% at Friday's meeting, as we expected. We maintain...
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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.25% at Thursday's meeting, as we expected. We believe that the...
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We've adopted our "limited Trump scenario" as our baseline forecast for Japan. We now assume that the US will impose...
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We now believe that the Bank of Japan will wait until January to hike the policy rate. We previously assumed...
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The ruling Liberal Democratic party and its partner Komeito lost their majority in Japan's lower house elections on Sunday, which...
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Our Global Relative Return Index (RRI) is unchanged from six months ago at 52.7 for 2025, signalling that we are...
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Labour turnover is quickly rising among full-time workers in Japan, where long-term employment has been prevailing. Although a serious labour...
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The Bank of Japan maintained its policy rate at 0.25% during Friday's meeting. Although we still expect an additional rate...
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We believe that recent jitters about US growth prospects are overdone. While US GDP growth will slow a bit, we...
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We now expect the Bank of Japan will implement an additional rate hike this year, possibly in October, given the...
