Bank of Japan

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  Japan Quake, Fed Rates and CPI: Advisor Briefing for the Week of March 14, 2011

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 14, 2011

  The top market-moving news for the week: the Japanese earthquake, the Fed meeting, and inflation readings, including PPI and CPI.

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  Betting on the Bond Bubble

  By Mike Patton  |  March 1, 2011

  What’s the difference between tulips, the South Sea Company, stocks in the Roaring Twenties, Japan’s Nikkei in the 80s, the NASDAQ 90s, the recent housing boom, the current price of gold—and bonds?

• The Specter of Japan

  By Alexei Bayer  |  December 1, 2010

  Japan has become the boogeyman of U.S. monetary policymakers. A country which in the mid-1980s was on the march to conquer global consumer markets with...

• Bank of Japan Considering ETFs and REITs to Promote ‘Risk-Taking Activity’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 2, 2010

  Based on a slowing recovery and its impact on economic activity and prices, policy board members of the Bank of Japan members concurred that it was necessary for the bank to further enhance monetary easing.

• Japan Keeps Rates Near Zero, Details Asset-Purchase Plan

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 28, 2010

  The Bank of Japan held off on further action on monetary easing on Thursday, instead keeping interest rates close to zero and announcing the details of its previously announced plan to buy up assets.

• Japan Cuts Interest Rate, Buys Treasuries; ISM Survey Falls

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 5, 2010

  Japan's central bank caused a stir on Tuesday when it lowered the benchmark interest rate from the previous target of 0.1% to a new rate of 0%-0.1%.

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  Will Treasuries Plunge?

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  October 1, 2010

  With the Federal Reserve reiterating its stance on a low interest rate environment, falling bond yields have been a major investment theme so far this...

• Inflation and Growth: the Fed Meets and CPI Is Released: Advisor Briefing for the Week of August 9, 2010

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 9, 2010

  What's happening this week.

• Japan's Stock Market History Offers U.S. a Cautionary Tale

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  June 1, 2009

  On December 29, 1989, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index closed out a triumphant decade at 38,916. The Nikkei had begun the 1980s below 7,000 and...

• Spectre of LTCM Prompts Liquidation Studies

  By Staff Writer  |  May 2, 2006

  LONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--The liquidation of Long-Term Capital Management after the Russian government defaulted on its rouble-denominated debt is a chilling reminder for any hedge fund investor of what can happen when a bold strategy goes catastrophically wrong. It is thus unsurprising that a whole body of literature is emerging to analyse...