Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: Japan has taught us that slashing interest rates to zero and beyond is much easier than returning them to normalcy. In Japan, credit spreads mean little, the underlying assets on which they are based are drugged up on monetary stimulants, bank balance sheets get muddied, it
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF said: Budget deficits in advanced economies will narrow at a faster pace in 2013 than in 2012 even as countries including the US and Japan lack clear plans to reduce their debt. Fiscal shortfalls will shrink to 4.7 percent of GDP in advanced nations in 2013, the narrowest
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF says: The global economy will expand 3.3 percent in 2013 versus its 3.5 percent forecast in January, and 4 percent in 2014. The euro area will contract 0.3 percent in 2013 versus its forecast of a 0.2 percent retreat in January. Expect a 3-speed recovery led by emerging
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Frederic Neumann at HSBC said it will be very difficult for the G-20 to be critical of Japan because Japan has ultimately only done what the US, UK, and Europe have implemented – Japan is justified because something needed to be done to revive growth. Gao Xiqing at China Investment Corp
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said: He raised Treasury holdings to 33 percent of assets in March, the highest level since July 2012, and lowered mortgage holdings to 33 percent, the lowest level since August 2011. cash advance businessespayday loans in la Japan’s unprecedented purchase program may force investors into
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Kyle Bass at Hayman Advisors, who has been betting on a collapse in the Japanese bond market for at least 3 years, said Japanese government bondholders’ reaction to the BOJ’s stimulus may foreshadow a broader selloff. Bass said this is the first deviation of the sanctity of that
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ryota Sakagami at SMBC Nikko Securities said the Japanese stock market is on the verge of a bubble as the BOJ and the government work to push up asset prices. Sakagami said the BOJ indicates it will act if the market were to fall so do not expect a correction.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: George Soros and Bill Gross at Pimco said the BOJ plan to end deflation risks weakening the yen. Gross said the yen has to depreciate much more for the BOJ to reach its inflation target of 2 percent, and other G-7 countries may not be willing to permit that. Read the full article
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said: The economy will grow no more than 2 percent in 2013 even with one or two quarters of faster growth. A 2 percent new normal economy is the best we can expect. The impact of energy and housing will be limited to one or two quarters at
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Lee Sang Jae at Hyundai Securities said South Korea and Japan are in a competing relationship, not a complementary one. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-24/south-korea-escalates-concern-with-japan-policies-as-yen-slides.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
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