Tokyo, the Nikkei back to fall (-1.4%) and the yen goes back – Il Sole 24 Ore

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Tokyo – the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange today closed in downward dello’1, 36% to 15,836.36 points: the Japanese stock market and ‘thus returned to retreat after the sharp jump on Monday’ and the rise yesterday mild (for a total of 7.4%, following the -11% from last week ) – in spite of previous good performance of Wall Street. The “sentiment” of investors remains unstable and influenced by the trend of the yen exchange rate. The Japanese currency and ’round to appreciate against the dollar below the threshold of 114 (on the euro and’ now up to 127), which, as usual, has depressed share prices. The volatility ‘in oil prices – on which even the agreement in principle between some key producers on an output reduction has had very significant effects (with a slight recovery today after an initial decline yesterday) – contributes to the instability’ overall .

the news ‘absolute today regards the interbank market for the first time in history, the reference rate for loans of Japanese banks (the overnight call rate) and’ dropped to negative levels, following the adoption of the new monetary policy the Bank of Japan which provides for the imposition of a negative rate of 0.1% on excess bank reserves. Interest rates on ten-year Japanese government bonds remain however in positive territory (after being briefly dropped below zero last week) 0.05%.

A Tokyo Stock Exchange securities of exporters do not have a single direction today, while energy lost ground. Rising are the Kubota actions after the equipment group announced to anticipate record profits for 155 billion yen in the year that will end ‘in March. It falls instead Takata after General Motors announced a new expansion of the recall in the workshop of cars because of potential defects of the airbags.

On the macro front, it is reported that in December 2015 the orders “core” of machinery in Japan increased by 4.2% on the previous month (when they had fallen by 14.4%), but fell by 3.6% from a year earlier. The demand from abroad (indicator of future export trend) is down 3.1%. The latest information on consumption remains sluggish: the figure of 2015 household spending was down by 2.7 percent.

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