by Ryan Littlestone | October 23rd, 2017, 09:07:43 | News
Another week kicks off with politics leading the headlines We’re jumping like frogs from one political scene to the next. Abe got his win yesterday and USDJPY breifly tiptoed into 114.00 after gapping higher by some 25 odd pips from Friday’s close around...
by Ryan Littlestone | October 18th, 2017, 10:19:09 | News
A Kyodo survey puts Shinzo Abe on course for a two-thirds majority win Reuters have picked up on an survey election survey by Kyodo news agency. The poll ahead of the Lower House election taken between 15-17th Oct had Abe’s LDP winning around 280 of the 465...
by K-man | October 11th, 2017, 11:02:53 | News
Koike loves a bite of the pistachio Abe a hint of chocolate , Maehara mocha
by K-man | October 11th, 2017, 10:36:45 | Japan, News, Research
Not sure I want to buy JPY if her Kibou No To party would win During an election campaign rally, Yuriko Koike finally announced the plan to tax Corporate Japan’s 400 trln JPY dormant cash. As I said before, her plans are kind of laudable, but in my opinion, risk...
by K-man | October 5th, 2017, 14:27:51 | News, Research
Your choice is between a conservative and … a conservative Nikkei has a detailed Abe-Koike’s electoral comparison article . In essence Koike’s program is quite laudable, a little harder to convince Corporate Japan and even harder to implement. -She...