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BOJ Interest Rate Decision and Yen Performance

The BOJ will hold its regular interest rate decision meeting tomorrow night. There isn't much speculation of any major change in policy. But, given the trajectory of the currency, potential commentary from officials is likely to be under…
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Will Japan’s November Consumer Confidence Move the Yen?

It's common knowledge that the chronic problem the BOJ has had to deal with is low inflation. But, inflation is unlikely to pick up if consumers are unwilling to spend. So, keeping an eye on consumer sentiment can give us some advance…
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Monday’s Asian Data Barrage: Key Figures From China and Japan

On Friday, Asian equities closed higher in hopes that the Chinese government is nearing or at the end of its regulatory crackdown. The new regulations are part of an effort to address the excess debt around the housing industry. But that…
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Podcast: Will the Yen Suffer from the Olympics?

With the Olympics finally underway, discussions are at hand on how beneficial to the economy they will be. With past games putting economies under heavy pressure, could this actually happen to Japan? Join David and Daniel as they…
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Upcoming June Inflation Figures: Japan & Canada

After a few months of crisis mode, central banks are returning their focus to fundamentals for policy decisions. We ought to expect data like inflation to have a larger impact on the markets as governments hold off on new measures to…
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Upcoming Japanese Q2 GDP

Rounding out a pretty busy week for Japan, we have one of the most important events on the economic calendar this month: the first look at GDP for Q2. Given all that's been going on, this is likely to be extra important this time around.…
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Upcoming Japan Retail Sales and More

JPY traders ought to keep an eye on the economic calendar during Friday's Asian session since we have a bunch of potentially market-moving data on tap. Chief among them is the retail sales data. With concerns over weakness in the world's…
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Q4 Japanese GDP

We are finally about to get the data that JPY traders have been waiting nearly three months for: the GDP change rate. As you might expect, this could produce some volatility in JPY pairs. Given that Japan is the source of carry trades…
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Coming up: January Japan Current Account

Coming up on Friday, if you are in Europe, or Thursday if you are in the Americas, we have two bits of important data that may have an impact on the JPY and its respective pairs. With most of Asia closed for the Lunar New Year, a…
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