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Stocks Drop As Trade War Returns; Japanese Bond Rout Leads To Emergency Margin Call
Stocks Drop As Trade War Returns; Japanese Bond Rout Leads To Emergency Margin Call The latest trade war truce lasted less than a day, and after stocks jumped yesterday following an early report that Mnuchin had resumed trade talks with his Chinese counterpart, a late Tuesday report that the Trump admin is planning to increase […]
BOJ Intervenes For Third Time In A Week: Offers To Buy Unlimited Bonds To Stabilize Markets
BOJ Intervenes For Third Time In A Week: Offers To Buy Unlimited Bonds To Stabilize Markets Ahead of the potentially dramatic BOJ decision tonight, the Japanese bond market is becoming increasingly jittery. After 10Y JGBs sold off early in the session, with yields rising as high as 0.11% – the highest level in almost a […]
Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima Found In California Wine
Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima Found In California Wine Following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan – which left Japanese residents contending with toxic water and radioactive wild boars, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that particles of radioactive fallout which made its way to the Western United States and elsewhere was […]
The Biggest Monetary Experiments In History: Part 2
The Biggest Monetary Experiments In History: Part 2 In part one we discussed the troubling issues in Europe (in case you missed it, you can read it here). Today… Japan The story of Japan is really a story that begins with globalisation. According to the Oxford Dictionary, globalisation is described as: “The process by which […]
More Countries Start Exploring Alternatives to the US World Order
More Countries Start Exploring Alternatives to the US World Order There are two countries that more than others show how the Western world order is undergoing a profound change. Japan and Turkey occupy two distinct and diverse geographical areas, yet they share many of the same strategic choices about their future. Their geopolitical trajectory is […]
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds The US Treasury Department report for April published on June 15 revealed that Russia sold $47.4 billion out of the $96.1 it had held in Treasury bonds (T-bonds). In March, Moscow cut its Treasury holdings by $1.6 billion. In February, Russia reduced its bond portfolio by $9.3 billion. Other holders […]
What Patient Zero, Japan, Can Tell Us About China & The Developed World At Large
What Patient Zero, Japan, Can Tell Us About China & The Developed World At Large To see the future, sometimes you have to look to the past. Japan is patient zero in the global epidemic of slowing growth and although Japan was assumed to be the emerging world power in the ’80’s, we now know better. The title […]
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits The Tokyo Electric Power Company is running out of container space to store water contaminated by tritium outside the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and it’s also running out of room for building more tanks, according to Yomiuri Shimbum, a Japanese newspaper, which is […]
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second […]
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue The BOJ thinks Japan may hit its 2% inflation target in 5 years. Kuroda says risks are to the downside. It may take Japan five more years to reach its 2% inflation targetaccording to BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda. “Sometime within the next […]
Bank of Japan Buys Record Amount of Equity ETFs: Once Upon a Time
Bank of Japan Buys Record Amount of Equity ETFs: Once Upon a Time The Japanese stock market fell, so the Bank of Japan bought more equity funds. After cornering the bond market, the Bank of Japan has its sight on the stock market with a Record Buying Binge in March. The Bank of Japan spent […]
Building The World’s Largest Solar Project
Building The World’s Largest Solar Project Saudi Arabia wants to pour $200 billion into solar to build the world’s largest solar project. The Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan jointly announced plans to build a solar project that is staggering in size – 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. That would be […]
Japanese Bubble Bursting Playbook
JAPANESE BUBBLE BURSTING PLAYBOOK Every now and then I stumble across a new source of information that I can’t wait to share with my readers. Today is one of those days. If you have even the tiniest shred of interest in commodities, then head over to the Goerhring & Rozencwajg website immediately. It’s just terrific […]
False Alarms and Exaggerated Threats
False Alarms and Exaggerated Threats Photo by Anthony Quintano | CC BY 2.0 Three days after the January 13 false alarm of a North Korean nuclear attack on Hawaii, Japan’s public TV broadcaster NHK issued its own false alarm around 7 p.m., warning in error that North Korea had launched a missile at Japan. As reported […]
