Japan may show some slim economic growth for the third quarter, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing well. Also, watch for earnings from Tokio Marine and Macquarie Group. Michael Kitchen reports
(see also Thailand and the crisis)
11/14/2008
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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November 17th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Whoops it’s in recession.