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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:24:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interests Rates Announcements Expected from the U.S, U.K and Euro-Zone this Week</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a week of greenback recovering this week promises to provide high volatility. Interest Rate announcements are expected from the U.S, the Euro-Zone and the U.K. In addition, the Non-Farm Employment Change for October will be released on Friday. In short, sharp fluctuations are expected, with plenty of opportunities to make large profits.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3597546>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:57:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">TBHS</category>
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      <title>Struggling With A Strong Yen</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Japan's new government continues to wrestle with the strength of the yen. Although previously as a finance minister Fujii seemed more sympathetic to intervention, he now wants to break from the past. While he has back tracked from his previous apparent endorsement of a strong yen, he is still setting the bar for intervention high. News wires quote him warning of an official response if the foreign exchange market is disorderly.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3534886>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:58:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <title>Foreign Investors Selling Japanese Bonds, But Cash Rich Domestic Banks Are Buying Much More</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3374739</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Foreign investor holdings of JGBs (Japanese government bonds) were down to 6.4% or JPY43 trillion, the lowest since September 2007. US and German holdings are apparently down by over half, while UK and French holdings are down some 30%. This is despite a major investor relations program by Japan's Ministry of Finance since 2005 to promote holdings of JGBs by foreign investors. This program included foreign road shows,<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3374739>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:38:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <title>Japanese Housewives Back In The Game?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am sure all investors, analysts, and commentators have been tracking a wide range of indicators&#160; to gauge whether the shoots of green would continue to spark or whether it was merely a blip on the way down. Clearly, this has been and is a little more than a blip I think and for my own part, decisive evidence came today that things might have changed. I am of course talking about the Bloomberg report (also here) that Japanese housewives are once again making their presence felt in currency markets playing the carry wheel.        Individual investors in Japan increased bets to the most in six months that the yen will weaken as the economy stabilizes, jumping back into a trade that was all but wiped out last<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3231090>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:40:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">RBC</category>
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      <title>Japan's GDP May Have Declined Even More In Q1 2009</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Wall Street Journal) According the Economic Planning Association's &quot;ESP Forecast&quot;, Japan's real gross domestic product may have contracted 12.76% annualized in Q1 2009, or even worse than Q4 2008's 12.1% contraction. This represents a downward revision from just a month ago, when a 10.41% contraction was expected, before February trade data showed exports nearly halved, and imports recorded a record 43% plunge. The 38 economists surveyed gave a 57.2% probability to a turnaround within one year, with growth of 0.35% in Q4 2009. The responses to the latest poll were compiled between March 30 and April 6.   The above is &quot;new&quot; news.  The other (old) news out in media space is that the Japanese government downgraded their forecast to a 3.3% decline for 2009, after GDP shrank 3.1% in 2008. This based on, a) a 1.2% fall in global GDP,<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3209219>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">NI225</category>
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      <title>If the Japan's Economy is So Bad, Why Aren't The Government And The BOJ Cutting Their Growth Forecasts?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At a recent quarterly Bank of Japan branch managers' meeting, BOJ governor Shirakawa warned that employment and wage conditions in Japan would deteriorate further and that corporate earnings and their ability to raise funds remained under pressure. &quot;Under these circumstances, the possibility is high that the nation's economy will continue deteriorating for the time being&quot;, he was quoted as saying by the Dow Jones Newswires. His tone ostensibly conveyed a deep sense of gloom, according to Western press reports, and raise the likelihood the central bank would revise down its growth outlook when it releases its semiannual outlook report on the economy April 30.   Mr. Shirakawa even suggested deflation had returned, saying wholesale prices are likely to keep trending lower as commodity prices continue to cool amid weak global demand. This should also come as no surprise as March wholesale prices fell 2.2% and the rate of the decline was the sharpest in<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3197996>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <title>Financial Situation Around The world</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3193521</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[First of all, I hope that my readers have passed a nice couple of days with their families and friends and that they are ready to pick up the baton again here after Easter. One who sadly will not be joining us as we move forward is Greg Newton author of the blog Naked Shorts who passed away recently from a heart attack. I shall immediately confess that I only, on rare occasions, stopped by NS to get a dose of the often very sharp pen wielded by Greg. However, with<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3193521>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:02:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">MS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">PMI</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">SP500</category>
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      <title>Japan Government Pushing Ahead With Stock Purchase Plan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While rumors have been circulating for some time, Japan's ruling coalition (LDP and Komeito) continue to press forward on establishing a means whereby the government can intervene directly in the stock market to buy stocks. The just-announced JPY15 trillion stimulus package will be based on a fiscal 2009 supplementary budget, and ostensibly will likely include JPY50 trillion yen in government guarantees on money raised by the stock-buying entity, according to the Nikkei. The government and coalition partners have apparently already decided to create a special committee chaired by the Prime Minister that would convene in extraordinary market circumstances, such as when the stock market's ability to smoothly price equities becomes dysfunctional. The committee, which ostensibly will include the BOJ governor, the finance minister and other Cabinet members in charge of economic and fiscal policies, would<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3190689>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:41:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <title>Balance Sheet Duress At Japan's Shikin Banks And Economic Stimulus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Japan's credit associations (known as shikin banks) are having balance sheet problems. The central bank for Japan's nationwide shikin banks, the Shikin Central Bank, has injected JPY40 billion of capital into five member shikin banks.   Two of these banks have received financial support from the credit association central bank for a second time. The issues affecting the balance sheets of such banks center on undercapitalization under the Bank of Japan's tough assessment of bad loan write-offs, and losses on investments in securitized and other financial products. Currently, there is no &quot;selection mechanism&quot; to force distressed credit cooperatives out of the market. Capital injections by the central bank for such credit associations implicitly assumes that management will be improved/restructured through consolidation, but as other members have declined to step up to the plate, the troubled institutions remain in business.   During<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3187274>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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      <title>Lone Star REIT Transaction Could Unfreeze Japan's Distressed Property Market</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lone Star Funds had the winning bid for the failed New City Residence Investment Corp., which toppled last October. The bid beat out rivals Daiwa House and Oaktree Capital. The transaction gives an indication of value for Japan's frozen distressed property market, and could help to unfreeze it. New City manages more than 6,700 rental properties for which the firm paid JPY184 billion. About 80 percent of the properties are in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The transaction has stimulated Japan's moribund J-REIT market, at least temporarily.   At the same time, the BOJ felt compelled to broaden the scope of assets they would accept as collateral for loans to include municipal and government bonds sold directly to investors (private issues) because financing access in Japan remains the tightest it has been for decades, and analysts believe the BOJ needs to do more to loosen credit, even though they have taken action every month since Lehman failed last year. From the<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3182271>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BOJ</category>
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