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- More Than a 'Whiff' of Inflation in Japan
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, as Claus Vistesen pointed out in his last post, Japanese data is pretty much a mixed bag at the moment. Industrial output shot up in April, and the May PMI data suggested that the easing of manufacturing contraction continued in May. However household spending and...
- External links 2009-06-01
- Japan's Economic Contraction Stabilizes in March
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan's contraction showed signs of easing in March, even though the recession has now set in for the duration, the deepest point may well have been passed. The ship may be stable, but it is still far from being right side up. Industrial...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Japanese Consumer Sentiment Rises as Exports Slump: Where's the Recovery?
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan put in a pretty negative export performance in May. Even shipments to China show little sign of improvement, and the general impression is that hopes for a quick recovery in global demand are looking very premature. click to enlarge On the other hand...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Japan: June Exports Sustain Upward Momentum But Surplus Employment Rockets
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan’s June exports fell at the slowest annual pace this year, helping the trade surplus widen for the first time in 20 months. Shipments abroad were down 35.7 percent from a year earlier, following a 40.9 percent in May, according to the Finance Ministry. The surplus...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Japan's Property Market: The Lost Quarter Century
- Edward Hugh submits: Despite the fact that Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said Friday that February's fall in the so called "core-core" consumer price index doesn't mean Japan is back in deflation, few are ready to accept his judgement. Indeed, if you look at the core-core line in the...
- External links 2009-03-30
- Japan: Industrial Production Slumps; Outright Deflation Draws Closer
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan’s recession evidently deepened even further in November as industrial output fell at the fastest pace in 55 years. Production plunged 8.1 percent month on month from October Trade Ministry data and was down an enormous 16.2% year on year. For an economy which lives from...
- External links 2008-12-26
- Japan's Industrial Slump
- Edward Hugh submits: Japanese manufacturing output fell in January by a record 10 per cent month-on-month while new job offers declined 18 per cent, reflecting the deepening recession in the world’s second biggest economy. Industrial production was down a whopping 30.8 per cent year-on-year, as manufacturers of vehicles, electronics...
- External links 2009-02-27
- Japanese Exports Collapse in January
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan’s exports plunged by 45.7 percent year on year in January, producing a record trade deficit, as recessions in the U.S. and Europe, and a sharp downturn in China crushed demand for the country’s machinery, cars and electronics. A drop of this size is truly staggering....
- External links 2009-02-25
- Japan's Grim and Bear It 2009 Outlook
- Edward Hugh submits: Things in Japan are looking grim and getting grimmer, and it doesn't seem they will be getting less grim anytime soon. To give you some idea of what this means, only this week we learned that Japan’s steel production fell 28 percent in December. This was...
- External links 2009-01-27
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- Japan: Leading Indicator Drops Again; Machinery Orders Fall
- Edward Hugh submits: The Japanese government conceded yesterday that Japan's longest running postwar period of economic expansion might now be over as it reported a drop in its key measure of underlying economic conditions for June. The June coincident indicators index fell a preliminary 1.6 per cent and the...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Japanese Economy Contracts in Q2 2008
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter of 2008, bringing the country to the threshold of its first recession in six years, as exports fell and consumers spent less. Gross domestic product was up by 1% over the second quarter of 2007, but down by 0.6%...
- External links 2008-08-18
- Japan's Dual Currency Proposal: A Slippery Slope
- As was pointed out in a February 7 Seeking Alpha blog titled "Dual Currency Plans Being Examined in Japan" post by Edward Hugh who was quoting a Financial Times article there is discussion underway, supposedly among some "influential" members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, to print some JPY50 trillion of...
- External links 2009-02-10
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