1H16 Better-Than-Expected Results Suggest Earnings Inflection Points; Positive For Japanese Banks
Four major banks under our coverage reported better-than-expected results, indicating an inflection point in their earning structure. In aggregate,...
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Why Hold Japan, Part I: Relative Tax Regimes
SummaryForeign investors now form the largest cohort of investors in Japanese stocks, according to Tokyo Stock Exchange data. Yet given Japan's...
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Lack of Term Premium Continues to Cost Japanese Banks with Limited Financial Flexibility
The Bank of Japan has just released its semiannual assessment on the financial system with an explicit focus on the negative interest rate...
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The Holy Grail of Reflation: "from Savings to Investment"
Recent large government privatisations (Japan Post and JR Kyushu) have brought with it a positive tendency, as we pointed out in The Reflationary...
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Structural Reform II: Political Economy Backdrop
One of the enduring questions regarding Japan’s “lost decades of growth” remains the degree to which failure to grow owes to insufficient...
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