Nomura Securities Chief Market Economist Tomo Kinoshita weighs in on Bank of Japan monetary policy. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda delivered a message to investors speculating that the Bank of Japan might be nearing the start of policy normalization: Not so fast. Kuroda said the BOJ wasn't in a
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U.S. President Donald Trump may soon get a lesson about tangling with China on trade: Beijing can punch back. China has a long history of tit-for-tat retaliation when it comes to trade disputes and may well dust off the same policy playbook in the wake of the Trump administration's decision to slap tariffs
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Bloomberg's Raymond Colitt says the odds are heavily against Lula running for president in Brazil. A Brazilian appeals court unanimously upheld a graft sentence against former leader Luiz Inacio Inacio Lula da Silva, likely preventing the front-runner in presidential opinion polls from seeking election
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The rand could appreciate to as low as 11.50 per dollar if Zuma is removed from office, Pearce said. The probability of the rand reaching that level this quarter rose to 49 percent on Wednesday, from 19 percent a month ago, according to Bloomberg's forecast model based on prices of options to buy or
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Accounting News Roundup: Partners Acting Like Fraudsters and GE's Black Box | 01.25.18 … Jamie Miller, GE's CFO, says she “hasn't seen indications of accounting problems,” but one analyst isn't convinced: “If you were concerned about black box issues in the past, aren't you much more concerned
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