Japan to experience more stagnant inflation

Oct 28, 2015 06:07 am UTC| Commentary

Japans nationwide CPI (excluding fresh food) likely fell in September. Factors such as the passing on of price increases to products as a result of cost push inflation caused by yen depreciation and the recovery in...

Japan's exports and production shows weak tone

Oct 28, 2015 05:56 am UTC| Commentary

In the October Monthly Economic Report by Cabinet Office, the governments assessment on exports and production were both explained as showing a weak tone recently. Overall assessment on the economy is explained as The...

Slower stock-building, wider trade gap likely trimmed US Q3 GDP growth

Oct 28, 2015 05:52 am UTC| Commentary

The Bureau of Economic Analysis is likely to report that economic activity decelerated during the summer quarter. A substantial slowdown in inventory building, combined with a larger international trade deficit, probably...

Political impacts of US tentative budget deal

Oct 28, 2015 05:49 am UTC| Commentary

The growth impact of US congress two year budget deal would be that the additional spending could lift GDP growth by just over a quarter percentage point next year. Beside the positive growth implications, the deal...

US merchandise trade gap likely to narrow sharply

Oct 28, 2015 05:48 am UTC| Commentary

Opposing and favorable movements in US goods exports and imports probably closed the merchandise trade deficit by $6.0 billion to $69.1 billion in September, reversing all but a fraction of the stunning widening posted in...

Brazil faces daunting economic and financial challenges

Oct 28, 2015 05:45 am UTC| Commentary

Brazil faces an extraordinarily difficult moment. Even if politics were simple and policy unconstrained, the economy would confront painful challenges of adjustment to the correction of commodity prices and a probable...

Japan's September IP to confirm weak trend

Oct 28, 2015 05:44 am UTC| Commentary

Japans industrial production has been volatile over the last six months (-0.8% mom in March, +1.2% mom in April, -2.1% mom in May, +1.1% mom in June, -0.8% mom in July and -1.2% mom in August), probably due to the unstable...